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The Email is about a contract and that you should get money for something. You should open the contract and they will send you money. You should off course not open any zip or word file someone sends you. The email written in very general terms so almost anybody can be a target and that the danger for people not so used to these kind of threats.

If they can almost fool me, they can for sure fool average Joe.

Our lawyers made alterations on the last page. If you agree with all the provisions we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment.
We are enclosing the file with the prepared contract.
If necessary, we can send it by fax.
Looking forward to your decision.

Tony Sampson

Some spam is impossible to trace or it is not use because they are in a country that really do not care that much on what people do. So if you leave that out of then you have the normal spam you tend to get on Craigslist or email from local companies.

You should always (if you have the time) report spam because only if we all do it we will maybe finally stop it or make it harder for the spammers to continue working. Facebook for example have won several big cases against spammers and they will not be spamming any time soon.

An easy way to report spam is to use Spam Cop because they will do the work for you and that will save you time and money in the end. They will also hide your real email address from the spammer.

You only need to confirm your email with them and fill in a small report and they will take care of the rest for you. If they have any more questions they will contact you again.

I have used Spam Cop more than once and they do a really good work and it is totally free.