SPAM: 12 Email Scams Most Likely To Arrive in Your Inbox

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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

Also check out this list of types of SPAM emails.

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Business Opportunities

Many of these are illegal pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money.
2

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.