Suspicious emails

[MQ Edna]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been receiving emails in my Yahoo bulk mail box with subject lines that refer to various medications, such as Alazopram, Percocet, Ativan etc. I normally just empty the bulk box because the mail there is usually junk. But a couple of days ago out of curiosity I opened one of the emails entitled "Ativan, Please Help". It was written in very poor English and really didn't make alot of sense. What I am wondering is if these emails are from foreign addresses that are trying to obtain medications illegally from RN's here in the U.S.

Has anyone else out there ever received emails like this? If so, what have you done about it? Is there anyone I should or can report this to?

[BabyRN2Be]

I never even open anything from someone I don't know. I heard years ago that if you open the spam mail somehow "they" find out it's an active email and you get more and more spam. Don't know if this is true maybe one of the IT pros on here can tell us. Is it bad to open them (besides the virus factor that is)?

To answer your question Larry, my husband is a software engineer and all-around computer guru in the family. He says exactly what you are saying is TRUE. Don't open them or worse, go to a website that the email directs you to. I've asked him this a few times and he always says the same thing. Hope that helps you. :)

I get these all the time and there's really no way that a spam filter can get it all. They mispell words, put in characters in the middle of a word. I can now readily tell what it is at the subject line and just delete it. Unfortunately, there's no real way to stop it.

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Open the email, right click and choose properties. Choose details. This will tell you where the email came from, back to the beginning. Find that server. Highlight the entire properties content and right click, choose copy. Close that window and go back to the email. Forward it to spam@(original server). Before you send it, paste the copied into in to the body of the forward and send it.

What would this do?