I get about 60 scam letters a day (because my email address is posted in certain spam-catching places on purpose) - if you post your email on the internet - in a forum or somewhere else, you're going to get spam/scam emails. The advice is - get a throw-away free email addy to sign up (yahoo, hotmail etc), post, advertise, whatever, NEVER use your real life info or email addy. Any unsolicited email is spam/scam. Keep your virus software up to date, make sure you have a firewall, use Firefox rather than Explorer, or even better, get Linux. Then you'll be comparatively safe.