Have you seen anything like this? What is it and how can I stop them from emailing me?

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE INTERNET USER


LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT.





Dear Internet User,





YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR USING THE INTERNET.





This Email is to inform you that you emerged a winner of the sum of


$2,500,000.00USD with the following numbers attached Ref Number: PW


9590 ES 9414,Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2007 and Ticket Number: PP


3502 /8707-01 on our online draws which was played on the 21st


September, 2007.





For further Information about your Winnings,contact our Lottery


Fiduciary Agent with the following contact Address.





CLAIMS AGENT.


Name: Mr. Eric Ward


Phone: +31-61-694-1341


Email: eric_ward04@yahoo.de





You will provide him with the following


information:





First name:


Last Name:


Telephone/Fax number:


Nationality:


Age:


Occupation:





Congratulations! Thank you for being a user of the World Wide Web.





Yours Faithfully,


Mary Jones


Lottery Coordinator.
Have you seen anything like this? What is it and how can I stop them from emailing me?
Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.





However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.





1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!





2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with aaaaa@INVALID.com and continue down to zzzzz@INVALID.com. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.





3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any spam e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.


You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.





4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscrupulous websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.





5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.


http://www.siteadvisor.com/





Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!
Reply:You cant stop them they are like Jehovas Witnesses, they never stop.. If you are using yahoo mail, you can click on spam each time you get one. That will block the ip the next time and delete the message.. But they keep changing ip's... eventually it will get better.. If your using another mail program, look for info on how to block ips'





Whatever you do dont write them a nasty letter. That just confirms your email is valid and it will turn into the Soccers Apprentice in fantasia, with more and more brooms coming.
Reply:I get that all the time, I delete it.
Reply:I think they are fraud.


After you send them reply with your contact details.


Another mail arrives, from any courier company. We have to pay their fees first, to get the money.


We can't utilize this money to pay the courier company.
Reply:We all have got that garbage form time to time. Just delete it and let it ride...sweety
Reply:Sounds like phishing mail, you can filter is out as spam or sometimes, some emails like that have fine print you have to look for, in the fine print there are (sometimes) links to "unsubscribe" from their mailing list.