Saturday, February 25, 2012

What are the negative consequences to replying to a phishing scam with false information?

One that said I won and just need to provide my name, occupation, etc and I get 8 million in a Nigerian bank account. I wanted to reply that my name was William Radczak, and my occupation is Assistant Director of the FBI's counter cyber fraud division , and list my number as the FBI's fraud tip hotline.



What is the harm in replying to these scams?What are the negative consequences to replying to a phishing scam with false information?
Never reply to anything like that, reason is when you do they then know your e-mail address is live and being used so they can pass it on to other spammers

is that good enought for you

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