ok these messages make me SOOOO mad. I got one and I answered it…not giving any personal info but expressing interest in the whole thing. I want these people to be caught and prosecuted so i will play along until i can give enough info for this to hopefully happen.
Is this a naive way of approaching it?
Re: I got one of those “millions for you if you help me” mails
This is what they want. You reply, you confirm your email is valid and they might sell it to million others :halo:
Re: I got one of those "millions for you if you help me" mails
hmmm.but I have a pretty good "spaminator" and have not given out any other personal info....so what problem could arise (other than hopefully them getting nailed)?
Re: I got one of those “millions for you if you help me” mails
million other junk mails generated due to your reponse 
Re: I got one of those "millions for you if you help me" mails
uff i hate such mails too....n i also wonder do they really think any1 would fall for it?
Re: I got one of those "millions for you if you help me" mails
the purpose behind ths is to waste resources e.g online space nothing else :(
well, the're scammers & phishing artists, not spammers. So you won't be getting tons of junk emails suddenly.
Once a while if I want to play along, I'd reply back showing my interest. And when they ask for personal contact info and all that, I usually give them the FBI's local office's contact detail. Heck, you can even give them the name of FBI Special Agent assigned to your city for the "Full Name" that these smarties ask for.
I don't know what happens afterwards, but Gosh! I wish these scumbags can be put to eternal rest somehow.
why? how?
Re: I got one of those “millions for you if you help me” mails
refer t post number 2
Re: I got one of those "millions for you if you help me" mails
ok so they sell it to a million others but since i have the spaminator, their mail gets sent right back to their corrupt selves. Yeah? or no?
Re: I got one of those “millions for you if you help me” mails
so you are replying to them from going into the junk mail folder?
lehhhhhh 
You mean Like this e-mail:
Attn: Winner
Congratulation" your EMAIL ID has won £1,350,000.00 (One MillionThree Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds) Winning No:10 20
25 41 44 46 with a bonus 6 for LOTTO 6/49 in the just concluded draw held in United Kingdom to Fight high rate of poverty growth in the world, sponsored by British Government
Please contact your agent with this information below:
Mr JIM PARSON
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Re: I got one of those “millions for you if you help me” mails
AH!! Here is the info on the scammer that I got:
419 scam: joyce [email protected] Calvary Greetings From Mrs.Joyce Cortter
Its exactly the message that I got except the email address is different. The website above had some good suggestions on how to deal with it and some amusing suggestions on how to bog down the scammers, waste their time and their resources and generally make their lives less pleasant lol!
So I amused myself for a little while flooding their mailbox with nonsense and garbage files. And I just MAY give a call (or 100) to their phone number when its like 3 am over there in Cote D’Ivoire.
I also reported them to the email staff for my email as spammers, they’re all blocked now.
Some of you are going to ask “dont you have anything better to do???” Well yeah but these crooks are scum who actually do take the life savings of innocent people and it infuriates me.
ps, I’d love to post the email address of the scammer and let you good folk of gs do a bit more flooding on them…
But not sure if thats a no-no?? Come on Mods! Lets have some fun yeah? Pleez give the green light!
I doubt you can catch them like that. Probably the best you can do is have fun wasting their time (and if you’re creative enough, you can even entertain us while you’re at it). Here’s a nice example:
Nigerian 419 Scammers Get Scammed Introduction | Internet. Serious Business.
Re: I got one of those "millions for you if you help me" mails
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okay ...
this is not joke ..
if u'll ignore this ....... u'll die tomorrow
saima aunty kee khala kee chotee betee kee bhabhi ney yeh mail ignore kee thee ...
agley din unn kee cheenktey cheenktey maut hogayee
jaldi say merey account mein 20,000,000.00€ transfer keroo .........
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Dateline NBC did a two part series on the 419 scam by playing along and transferring smaller money amounts just so they could get to the source.
Why waste time with them... just update your spam filters when you receive a new one - otherwise, just one reply will not dissuade them from their ways. The SRB (Spammers Rule of Business) as its termed sometimes is that even if 0.1% response rate and $10 of income per response, they can generate $50K with just 5M emails.
They don't really care if a few people are trying to get them to stop.
awsome!
People do fall for it 
The very fact that you got this mail means that your spaminator is not as good as you think…