the scammers are not getting any smarter, people are getting dumber..i mean come on, you receive an email from the nigerian police saying that they will give you $250,000 but first you have to pay a certain amount to claim it?... not smart at all, yet people are dumb enough and dont have the commone sense and they go ahead and pay.

Yeah tell them they can deduct it out of the $250,000.

I still maintain on a smaller level tho if you get an email comfirming payment has been recieved for goods you are selling,most folks might just send the goods without a 2nd thought,,,

I was selling my car through online adds recently. I recieved about 8 or 9 offers a day which insisted on payment through PayPal. Some of which offered way more than I was asking for the car.

The finniest one was a guy claiming to be deaf so he couldnt call me and working on a ship so he couldnt pay any other way. He didnt explain why he needed a car so quickly while working on a ship.

I had always thought payment through PayPal was a safe option but after getting so many of these emails offering to buy the car without even looking at it i realised something was a bit suss.

Heres the folks the scam the scammers,,i have heard some funny storys about what they do to them,,lol

http://www.419eater.com/

any emails I don't know, if they go straight to my junk mail, delete delete.  Don't buy anything on the internet, can't anyway don't have a credit card or paypal.  Just don't trust the internet to buy anything.  I've worked to hard for some scammer to skim me.

Read where one of the scammers that hit the ATM's was actually a asylum seeker that had been given residency, go figure and they were screened before allowing in, unbelieveable.

yeah that same guy on ship ,saying he would pay me by sending him my paypal account details for my boat,cars,chihuahua pups,without him seeing them in person,i sent email back saying cash only and i wont give him my account details,but he couldnt  respond to that,and i have had so called inheritances ,please send my bank account details ,as far as im concerned blow up nigeria with its scammers,lol

Got sick of getting them so started replying and giving them heaps and calling them for everything got ten times more coming back.
Now I have won hundreds of millions of dollars, got discount viagra, won trips, receiived huge inheritances but they still come and ask for my bank details, get 20-30 every day so the delete key gets a work out

i use incredimail for all my emailing,which has a block and bounce feuture which slows these scammers down alot canarvonite and anybody else,just google it then download its free,hope this advise helps