A while back I wrote this guide to teach people how to avoid email scams.
You should have your parents check these sites out if you are a kid. Everyday I receive emails telling me I won lotteries and that my Paypal account is in danger. It does not matter if you are a kid because anytime you respond to these emails you are telling the bad guys that your account is active. This makes you a target for more bad emails. Sometimes just opening a bad email will give you a bug so do not open anything suspicious.

:xmas35: :xmas35: Malicious code writers are putting trojans (backdoors) and keyloggers into these scams. It is VERY important that you do not click on any links in the scam e-mails, otherwise one of these backdoors/keyloggers could become installed in your machine.

:xmas35: 419 Legal
http://www.419legal.org/
This is a good site to spend a month reading.
It lists lots of stuff about 419 Nigerian scams and scammers.
They have over 200 names of fake lotteries as well as fake banks, companies, documents, videos, URLs, exposes, a message board, scam letters, and lots of information about how these people work.

:xmas5: http://www.419legal.org/pages.php?p=10
This explains the laws violated by scammers.
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:xmas35: DOSHelp
http://www.doshelp.com

:xmas35: http://www.doshelp.com/Scams-fraud/default.htm
Pick a subject any subject. Did you just get a notice your Ebay or Paypal account was about to close or that your bank needs a response? See http://www.doshelp.com/Scams-fraud/Banking/Default.htm for a list of banks.

I have received the South Bank, several religious ones, tsunami, lotteries, Paypal, Ebay, MSN which scared me, and the Nigerian ones. I finally set my hotmail account so that anything that says my email was blocked will be blocked. In two days I received at least 50 emails with Sober virus.
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:xmas35: Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
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:xmas35: A list of sites fighting 419 Nigerian spam
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/fighters.htm

I have a question.. I have received e-mails and it says click here to stop getting these e-mails. Should I click them? Or does it just send viruses?

No you should not unless you know the company for certain. If you know the email is from Janes Quilt Shoppe or MTV then it would be alright. You have to be doubly sure though as there are sites that look just like the real site. I lost my yahoo account because of someone sending spam in my name even though it was not possible at the time for me to do so.

Basically it is like sending in a complaint to a company that is cheating you, in the trash it goes. Also it lets the spammers know they have a live site and then they will send different emails. If you must respond like to Paypal then copy the address of the URL or use your own copy of the URL.

Here is is a link to a VMK Forums and you try it.
http://www.vmkforums.com/ (http://www.cheese.com)
Coders can make email look like real emails and insert viruses in real email. Coders can also hide viruses in real looking emails.
Look for misspelled words and things that just do not feel right.

Okay thanks so much!

Thank you for the guide! I know it wll be very helpful to people who need it!

THX so much!I really needed that guide!

Thanks so much.This is very useful.

Ty that is very informal. But why cheese.com????? Weridd Ty

If you were to click on a link that seemed safe then you might get a bug and what better site that a cheese site. I chose the cheese site because how dangerous can a cheese site be? Dropping frozen cheese on your foot might hurt, lol. You will not forget the cheese will you?

Thank you for posting this ;)