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Last update: 07/08/2020
This one was interesting. I don't recall seeing one about Canada's offer to "skilled workers", which is a real thing there.
Obviously, you have to reach out first. There are no government that reaches out blindly to anyone. Although for some people, they may be offered an automatic VISA, that's really rare and you'd know if you could possibly receive such (i.e. are you a genius?).
Obviously, this is a scam. They will probably ask you to pay some random fee for a form (even though they just said everything was going to be free). The best way to verify such things is ...
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Last update: 10/23/2018
Here is another one where the hacker says he's got control of my email account. He even provides a password (coucouc5) shown in the subject.
Clearly, I'm not using that password and now it's 100% public (I've actually found it on PasteBin along many other passwords.)
Obviously I know that's just a hacker trying to make free money so I'll be prudent indeed and not them him anything. That being said, I hope you won't either!
Similarly, I had a "I hacked your phone" message not that long ago. Same principal, and it includes a phone number I owned, only... ...
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Last update: 10/20/2018
Today I got this email from "America" Express. (Look at the link)
Apparently, I'm a dear "CWHAT-TO-DO"... Very funny! 
The link was really sending you to: enewsportals.com//change.htm
Obviously, nothing to do with American Express.
I have an American Expression card, and by default they sent me an email like 3 days before payment was due. I'm sure that was on purpose. Nothing before that even though they could send you an email 2 weeks earlier. So I'm not fund of that credit card policies. I kept it because it's practical when traveling to pay hotels. ...
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Last update: 08/13/2018
There is another one where this person pretends that he has a video of me watching porn. Only my desktop doesn't have a camera, it wasn't hacked (yes, I have tools to tell), and the phone number referenced is a landline (not a cellphone). Plus on a phone you don't have a webcam, do you? Well... maybe some people call it that way on the phones.
Anyway, all wrong :-)
That being said, I could understand that some people could be wondering about such messages. However, if you give in once, what do you think will happen?! They'll try again, suck you dry. Once all your savings are ...
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Last update: 10/18/2018
Here is a ransom request from a dude "who's not in my country so I can talk to the cops as much as I want anyway..."
I think I'll let the 48 or 72 hours lapse and see what happens. 
Of course, the bitcoin scheme is great, it's much harder to track who this is than using the banking account numbers since those bank accounts are readily accessible to cops from anywhere in the world (that's one thing all countries of the world have agreed upon! The so called fiscal paradises exist for tax evasion, but not criminals.)
What's interesting is that they give you an ...
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Last update: 07/15/2018
I thought this one was funny because the title mentioned one price and the body another.
If you want to be credible, you should make it so it matches. $15k is already a lot of money for a lot of people, but if your read the title closely, your expectation was $67k already... A one year salary right there!
It's one of those where you have an "Unsubscribe Here" at the very bottom, you'll have to scroll a bit to find that statement, though. Obviously, you shouldn't unsubscribe from crap emails like these.
The links go to a .trade, I suppose it got hacked, somehow. I did ...
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Last update: 07/10/2018
Today, I received this email, plain text, telling me that I was hacked and that to remove the "virus" I'd need to pay $370 to some random stranger and that the payment has to be made in bitcoin (great way of not being tracked.)
Oh and I can be given 24 hours extra, just in case the 24 hours ultimatum was not enough.
And that's funny he mentioned that talking with the cops would be useless. The bitcoin transaction may be pretty much safe for him, but not the emails. Those can be tracked anywhere in the world. Not like I'm going to do anything about it, just something to ...
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Last update: 04/30/2018
At least this one tells you up front how much you're going to have to pay on him... $310 are the only fees you need to pay to get your funds transferred to you. All good!
Now, I put this one here, I have a few others like this already, but this one I like because the guy clearly states that such emails are from fakes. I'm afraid, though, that those people aren't fake at all. It's more like they are very real. The proposed payments are definitely fake, though.
Also he does not explain how those $5 million he mentioned would still be "awarded" to him and that part ...
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Last update: 02/22/2018
Facebook, hey?
This email was made to look like a Facebook notification, albeit, rather broken HTML if you ask me...
That being said, it's just spam and not really a super bad hacker, even if sending you to a so called Internet Marketer website.
Someone who found a cheap way of advertising their website and instead of being truthful they give you an email that has nothing to do with what the email is for/about. It's just sad to see so many doing such a thing.
Then a little later I received a second email. This time it was from LinkedIn. The mistake from the spammer in this case? He ...
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Last update: 08/26/2018
Today I received a text, looked at it, and it was a lead from REDFIN. I'm a Realtor with Diverse Realty in Sacramento.
The message is asking me to pay $10 for the lead with a variety of systems such as Paypal and credit cards. That way I could see the full name, phone number, and address of said lead.
Some people are reporting receiving Realtor.com scams which look exactly the same. So beware!
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