I get these
‘419’ mails a fair bit at my work mail address;where I don’t have the sam level of spam protection that I have at home; I used to just ignore them…then I realised that just because I don’t fall for them doesn’t mean that no-one else will. I recently started forwarding the recieved mail along with it’s headers to the abuse@ address for any domain I could find in the headers…so far I’ve had great responses from the email providers, usually resulting in the address used by the fraudsters being shut down within a few minutes of my mail.
So, if you get one, maybe you should be the same…you may just help someone else out by sending this stuff back to the abuse address where it came from…