How do you stop pishing? Switch email?

Chillwithcian

I keep getting these spam emails or 'phising' as i now find out to be the correct term. About 2 weeks ago i started spotting loads of spam coming into my gmail on a regualr baisis, whats unusual is that i have not signed up to anything but yet someone has my email... now im regualary bombarded with fake emails from ebay/paypal saying that the accounts in jeporday and these fake (though hilarious) youv'e WON! emails like this one below.

Sir/Madam,

''CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON 1,000,000.00 Euros (:rolleyes:)

We are pleased to inform you of the result of EuroMillions Lottery SPE.,
which was held on the
26th Febuary. 2007 This lucky draw came first in the 1st Category of the
Sweepstake. with your
e- number 4 ,11,17 , 23 , 30 You will receive the sum of 1,000,000.00
(One Million Euros) from
our authorized bank.

Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time limited
placed on the payment
of your prize:, we advice that you keep all information about this prize
confidential until your funds,
have been transferred to you by our bank. You must adhere to this
instruction, strictly, to avoid
any delay with the release of your funds . This program has been abused
severally in past, so
we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims.

This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 5 000 spectators.
Your e-mail address
was selected and came out first by a e-ballot draw from over 200,000
e-mail addresses (personal and
corporate e-mail addresses). This program is sponsored by CFI Networks
to compensate faithful internet
suffers around the globe.

Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners. With your
permission, your e- mail will also be
included in the next sweepstake of 5Million.

You must claim your prize,not later than 14-days from the moment you
receive this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank; please
contact them immediately,
and quote your winning and personal information , and in all your
correspondence with the bank.

Here is the contact information of the Paying Bank.
Direktbank N.V
Evertsentstr 135,1057HL
Attention: Lamberti James
E-mail: :p:p
Direct tel. :p:p
Fax: :p:p
.
Furnish them with the following:
(i). your name(s),
(ii) Your telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Your contact address
(iv) Your winning information (including amount won).

Congratulations.
Kimberly Aghata
Coordinator: EuroMillions SPE.''


Whats the best way of combating pishing, if I switched email would that solve the 20 crap things im getting in my inbox like this on a daily baisis???

Thanks, Cian:mad:

Static M.e.

You cant stop them really.. I get them into my spam folder in gmail a fair bit but its simply a case of delete and forget I dont think they even register with me any more

someone has my email...

Spamers have scripts that quite simply scour the net looking for email addresses which they store in handy little databases and when they get bored of that they have other scripts for which simply make up email addresses its all very clever really..

Cabaal

Use gmail which is good at catching most of these, I used to find Thunderbird had a pretty good filter setup which also use to catch these.

However if your worried about a newbie getting cought out due to phishing then I'd recommend firefox 2.0 which has anti-phishing build in and there's also plenty of third party extentions you can get ti improve things too

Chillwithcian

Thanks...but just now a thing came into my spam box, an unknown email from an unknown sender with nothing in it! should i be worried, arn't these things trojan horses???