How will you be able to spot a Scam Email or Chain Letters?

The fact is chains break and pyramids crumble. Yet, still many of us are still forwarding chain emails/letter.

Have you received numerous chain letters in your email that flooding your inbox and yet you forwarded to your friends, colleagues, family members & acquaintances.

Here are just few among millions phrases of chain introductions;

• Earn $8,000 a week!
• Forward it and in about 30 days you will be $8,000 richer?
• Mail your letter within 48hours and do not break the chain, otherwise…
• Help those victims of flood in…
• & many more.

Remember that the Internet is virtually anonymous. You can send anything from anywhere in the world while claiming to be anyone. The chain letter sender may be coming from your well-intentioned friend. Or he may be a spammer or a hacker with intent of getting your personal information.

Look for different types of chain letters, including notes from dying children, foreign refugees and political groups. The most dangerous would be that it contain a proposition involving movement of large sums of money for investment. Typically, they make reference to poverty, tragic illness or atrocities. They frequently use religion as a hook. They even may include references to large corporations or recognized organizations. They always sound too good to be true, offering excessive returns on your financial investment. These letters are flowered with numerous benefits until you will be convinced.

When you get one of these letters, assess, verify and search on the internet where huge available information would be answered quickly. Check it out on an independent hoax website such as on Snopes or HoaxBusters. You'll be presented with information on the phenomenon as well as the history and lineage of specific letters. Once you've learned how find reliable references, you'll be able to identify future attempts more easily.

When you received a letter, just simply do the following;

• If you know the person who forwarded the letter to you, let him know that he's forwarded a bogus chain letter and share the address where you found information about it. 
• Delete the chain letter immediately.
• Do not forward. 
• Do not bounce it back to the sender. 
• Do not reply to the originator. 
• Do not open any attachments.