SPAM: 12 Email Scams Most Likely To Arrive in Your Inbox By Info Lists [87 more lists]

This is a list of email scams that your SPAM filters might miss. From bank email scams and health email scams to diet SPAM sent via email, this list contains the most popular SPAM and SPAMbots that can invade your inbox. Be careful, these spams may also carry viruses. This list of SPAM scams is alphabetical, but can be sorted by any column. Source: Federal Trade Commission

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Business Opportunities

Many of these are illegal pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money.
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Bulk email

Sending bulk email violates the terms of service of most Internet service providers. If you use one of the automated email programs, your ISP may shut you down.
3

Chain Letters

Chain letters�traditional or high-tech�are almost always illegal, and nearly all of the people who participate in them lose their money.
4

Work-at-home schemes

You'll pay a small fee to get started in the business. Then, you'll learn that the email sender never had real employment to offer. Instead, you'll get instructions on how to send the same ad in your own bulk emailings.
5

Free goods

Most of these offers are covering up pyramid schemes, operations that inevitably collapse.
6

Vacation prize promotions

Most unsolicited commercial email goes to thousands or millions of recipients at a time. Often, the cruise ship you're booked on may look more like a tug boat.
7

Guaranteed loans or credit, on easy terms

The loans usually turn out to be useless lists of lenders who will turn you down if you don't meet their qualifications.
8

Credit Repair

The scam artists who promote these services can't deliver. Only time, a deliberate effort, and a personal debt repayment plan will improve your credit.
9

Investment Opportunities

Many are schemes that eventually collapse because there isn't enough money coming in to continue simulating earnings. Other schemes are a good investment for the promoters, but not for participants.
10

Cable descrambler kits

The devices you use probably won't work. Most of the cable TV systems in the U.S. use technology that these devices can't crack.
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Health and diet scams

Most of these gimmicks simply do not work.
12

Effortless income

If these get-rich-quick schemes worked, wouldn't everyone be using them?