The holiday season and the poor economy are bringing out all kinds of e-mail spam scams. Here are the latest you may receive or will soon receive — don’t reply to them:

Survey and Gift Scam: An e-mail comes from a financial institution stating, “You’ve been selected to take part in our quick and easy eight-question survey. In return, we will credit $80 to your history.” You’re directed to an online survey page where you’re asked innocuous questions and next asked for your bank history knowledge. Don’t do it — these scammers will simply use that knowledge to drain your detail of cash.

Investment Proposal Scam: The e-mail writer urgently needs your help in getting a person’s money out of a country by using your bank history as a place to electronically deposit the money. They’ll need your detail access info, of course, to set up the transfer. And there will, indeed, be a transfer: All your money

transferred from your detail to the scammer.

Get Quick Cash Scam: Money’s tight, and these scammers know it. They entice you with seemingly quick and easy loans, transferred immediately into your history. “All applications accepted. No credit check,” the e-mail promises. visit the application link or signal and, once you’re approved (you always are), give them your explanation info. Don’t fall for that scheme.

Remember: As a rule of thumb, unsolicited e-mail schemes are never legit. Free offers that are made to look like they come from valid businesses and institutions you’ve never dealt with are nearly always scams.

Times are conditioned — don’t let e-mail scammers compose them harder for you.

Don’t forget the lesson of the good-natured woman who simply wanted to help someone in need and responded to an e-mail plea for help. She lost $400,000 to heartless thieves.

These scammers didn’t care that they cleaned…

Original post by dhiram