A Vision for the Future

My vision of the future of e-mail scams is that, while I believe it unrealistic that all scams would be eliminated, people would be given courses on how to avoid common e-mail scams. These courses would be offered as a seminar, directed in age appropriate ways towards students from an elementary school level, through high school and university. These seminars would be mandatory, and teach both students and teachers about how to deal with e-mail scams, and how to detect them.
I envision that the scam databases already in existence, will merge their knowledge into one collective worldwide database. There should be a forum to report instances of e-mail scamming, allowing the authorities to be informed. The IP address of the sender should be tracked down, and the person responsible should pay the penalty for fraud. I envision that scam monitoring will become more active, and that we should enforce penalties for e-scamming much more severely in the past.
If everyone were to do their part in preventing scams, together we can create a safer world to live in.