In a message dated 8/18/2005 11:46:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, brummett@sigecom.net writes: For the past week or so, I have been getting these "Congratulations. You hav e won the lottery" emails. I have been deleting them, but I am wondering how they get my email address. Also I think that we have been told about these on this Senior Newbie site. Is there anything I need to do about these emails? So far, they haven't come right out and asked for the name of my bank, etc. TIA Ruth in IN -- Ruth- The best thing it to just delete them unless you are able to set personal spam filters by adding the words you find in this spam so that these will be automatically blocked for you. If you are able to open and interpret the FULL EXPANDED message headers to see where the spam actually originated you can try reporting that either to your own ISP or to the originating ISP. I'd caution against reporting to the originating ISP unless you know for sure they are not a "spamhouse" themselves. I made that mistake once years ago reporting a spammer to an ISP in Hong Kong and ended up getting mail bombed by the spammer. :( So unless you really know what you are doing you are better off just deleting it. If it is a scam though--you might want to report it to the government at: uce@ftc.gov . I think I have that address correct--if not I'm sure someone will correct me. Joan