This article is meant for a Basic Internet User.

I already wrote an article about Scamming to let you know how to recover an email if its hacked. Today i am going to tell you about “How to Report a Scamming Email” ?. If you found the email you received is a scam then you need to report it to your Mail Service Provider that they allowed a scam email to your inbox. This will make them alert from that moment which also saves many users in future. Alright!, basically a scam mail contains information totally fake which tries to make the user to reply to it. Here are some of an example scam emails that a normal email user may receive.

The Bait: Con artists claim to be officials, businesspeople, or the surviving spouses of former government honchos in Nigeria or another country whose money is somehow tied up for a limited time. They offer to transfer lots of money into your bank account if you will pay a fee or “taxes” to help them access their money. If you respond to the initial offer, you may receive documents that look “official.” Then they ask you to send money to cover transaction and transfer costs and attorney’s fees, as well as blank letterhead, your bank account numbers, or other information. They may even encourage you to travel to the country in question, or a neighboring country, to complete the transaction. Some fraudsters have even produced trunks of dyed or stamped money to try to verify their claims.

The Catch: The emails are from crooks trying to steal your money or your identity. Inevitably, in this scenario, emergencies come up, requiring more of your money and delaying the “transfer” of funds to your account. In the end, there aren’t any profits for you, and the scam artist vanishes with your money. The harm sometimes can be felt even beyond your pocketbook: according to State Department reports, people who have responded to “pay in advance ” solicitations have been beaten, subjected to threats and extortion, and in some cases, murdered.

Your Safety Net: If you receive an email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of a foreign country, don’t respond. Forward “Nigerian” scams – including all the email addressing information – to spam@uce.gov. If you’ve lost money to one of these schemes, call your local Secret Service field office. Local field offices are listed in the Blue Pages of your telephone directory.

Also check this link for more info about this scamming and the reporting methods.

Here what i received today to my inbox. Gmail have a good way of protecting the users from Spam or Phishing Emails. However there is a case where one or two emails may escape from this scenario. In that case we need to Report it to Gmail for further action. This will do some change in their Filters to ensure this sort of emails wont enter into the Inbox from next time.

Above is the email i received and found as a Scam Mail. Now go to the Inbox back and Check that Email by Clicking on the selection box.

Now Click on the Report Spam button. Thats it. Gmail will take care of further process. It will be moved to the spam box and you wont receive any more email from that IP or from that Mail Server.

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