Comments on: Microsoft, Yahoo team up against lottery hoax e-mails

The tech firms are forming a coalition to educate consumers on the dangers of those nasty hoax e-mails that try to get financial information out of people.

[geolemon]

Lottery hoax nothing... those are annoying but most of them are successfully filtered into my Spam folder (Yahoo email), and at least when you see them, you get a chuckle out of them.

The truly annoying ones are the ones I keep getting for Cialis, Viagra, etc. I keep clicking "report spam" when I get them, but another one always appears later - with the same user name but slight variance on the actual Email address. There's GOT to be a better way of capturing these!

[fredtheviking]

Geolemon, you might want to consider Gmail. It's spam filter works great at lease for me.

I think it sad people are still falling for these hoax. I think people just get excited by the idea of actually winning something. It feels great and they want it to be true. So, they get sucker into it.

[pjhenry1216]

I think the problem will slowly fade away in the future. Its a slow process, but each generation, fewer and fewer people are unfamiliar with cyberspace. More and more people will know the dead giveaways as to what makes an email a hoax. Things we consider huge red flags aren't as obvious to people who aren't that in tune with the internet society. This may eventually be the ultimate solution to spam and hoaxes alike (as they really aren't all that different). Eventually, the pool of people that fall for these things or click on spam will get smaller and smaller. Hopefully, the profit margin will get smaller and smaller and maybe, just maybe, disappear.