Weird Emails You've Gotten

[AB]

What are some of the weirdest emails you've gotten?

[AB]

This is one weird email that I keep getting. I've never set foot in New York so I know I couldn't possibly have any tickets there. I don't click or download on any part of it but I am wondering why it keeps getting sent to me. Also it does not list my name on this so-called ticket.

[Brad Russ]

The weirdest I use to receive was porn. Well I guess that's not really that weird, but it is annoying. Anytime I get an email that looks suspicious, I delete it, and refuse to open it, so I have no idea what kinds of strange things I get. Since changing my email address, I hardly ever receive anything that looks suspicious anymore. I only give that address to friends.

[AB]

Originally Posted by Brad Russ

The weirdest I use to receive was porn. Well I guess that's not really that weird, but it is annoying. Anytime I get an email that looks suspicious, I delete it, and refuse to open it, so I have no idea what kinds of strange things I get. Since changing my email address, I hardly ever receive anything that looks suspicious anymore. I only give that address to friends.

So far I've never gotten any porn emails, and I usually don't get that many weird emails. But every once in awhile a strange one will show up. Another weird one I got last year was from someone claiming to be my overseas bride. First off, I'm a girl & second I'm already married. I've never visited any sites like that so I can't understand how they got my email address. Some of those emails were just too weird for words.

[Brad Russ]

Originally Posted by AB

So far I've never gotten any porn emails, and I usually don't get that many weird emails. But every once in awhile a strange one will show up. Another weird one I got last year was from someone claiming to be my overseas bride. First off, I'm a girl & second I'm already married. I've never visited any sites like that so I can't understand how they got my email address. Some of those emails were just too weird for words.

Yeah, I know that the reason I got those emails is because I use to watch porn. Fortunately that is no longer a temptation for me. All I have to do is remember how getting viruses from porn sites destroyed my computer, and kept me away from my friends, and offline for nearly a year, and that's all the motivation that I need to keep me away from that smut.

[qwerty]

Originally Posted by AB

This is one weird email that I keep getting. I've never set foot in New York so I know I couldn't possibly have any tickets there. I don't click or download on any part of it but I am wondering why it keeps getting sent to me. Also it does not list my name on this so-called ticket.

If it makes you feel any better you're not alone - MSNBC has an article on it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43658580...-hoax-warning/

My spam filter must be doing a better job these days because I see very few spam these days but one of my favorites was the Nigerian prince who needed money.

[Torgo]

Don't get SPAM or weird emails anymore, changed my main email address a few years ago, and I use my old email address for when I sign up for anything online.

[Yooch]

A recurring e-mail is the sort of generic one that someone in Nigeria has 100M in a bank account for me and all I need to do is contact them and provide all my personal details. Like I'm really gonna do that! I just delete them.

It was mentioned in the postings about how if an email looks suspicious (it probably is). I err on the side of caution. Little tricks they use are: appealing to your ego, or your desire for huge amounts of money, or telling you that you are in trouble somehow (about your credit, bank account and so forth), and the other one is appealing to your supposed desire to know your credit score.

If my instincts tell me to delete, I do. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Annoying perhaps and not weird, but to me 'not legit' translates into weird.

When in even the slightest doubt, my rule is "Delete". It has always kept me safe. If it's an honest to goodness email, they'll get hold of me somehow.

[Brad Russ]

Originally Posted by Yooch

A recurring e-mail is the sort of generic one that someone in Nigeria has 100M in a bank account for me and all I need to do is contact them and provide all my personal details. Like I'm really gonna do that! I just delete them.

It was mentioned in the postings about how if an email looks suspicious (it probably is). I err on the side of caution. Little tricks they use are: appealing to your ego, or your desire for huge amounts of money, or telling you that you are in trouble somehow (about your credit, bank account and so forth), and the other one is appealing to your supposed desire to know your credit score.

If my instincts tell me to delete, I do. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Annoying perhaps and not weird, but to me 'not legit' translates into weird.

When in even the slightest doubt, my rule is "Delete". It has always kept me safe. If it's an honest to goodness email, they'll get hold of me somehow.

I use to get those too. Even though you and I wouldn't fall for such foolishness, amazingly, many people have fallen for it. Saw this on the news a number of years ago. It's usually elderly people who fall for this scam.