Since, like anyone else, I receive tons of scam emails and snail mail letters, I decided to present here some of these. All of these (and many more which I just delete) are scams. This means, what the senders have in mind is to racket one of us. And according to what I've seen, they do succeed quite often.
If you have similar letters in your mailbox, either disregard or play with the person knowing that you can't give him (or her) any information about:
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Your bank account,
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Your address — or any valid address if that matter,
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Your family, and
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any other information that you judge private or even intimate.
Ha! I say "Your"... even if you don't like your neighbor at all, don't give his information either. The Internet leaves tracks (hackers in the US are being caught one after another!) and you would certainly be in even bigger trouble.
In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy reading these letters as I do myself once in a while. 8-)I do not always add comments with the letters since I usually don't have time to do so, but there would often be a lot of joke to tell!
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Latest Scams |
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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: 08/07/2018
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: 04/22/2018
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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Last update: 01/23/2018
First one I see about cryptocurrency.
This one has a funny email which mispells the word "coin"
alerts@conbase.com
What I find funny is that they removed the letter 'i' which transforms the word "coin" into "con"... artist, I guess. Ha! Ha! I find that funny.
The URL uses was a funny super long thing. Not too sure what it does I did not try it. Something about you confirming your account. Maybe a form asking you for your credential allowing them to then access your cryptocurrency account.
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Last update: 12/23/2017
So... particularly important: this is LEGITIMATE AND LEGAL. I'm glad this Mr Peter told me that because I had a doubt for a minute. 
Now... this is a new one. Someone managing a fund with an excess of 1.2%. Hmmm... so they knew how much that fund had to produce and stole the cream at the top?! Never heard of that in the financial community. Maybe I'm a bit misinformed.
Please be careful out there!
Return-Path: <SRS0+Wy6b=DU=gmail.com=aturnerr1976@m2osw.com>
X-Original-To: alexis@m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@m2osw.com
X-Greylist: delayed 3225 seconds by postgrey-1.35 ...
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Last update: 12/19/2017
Fun one.
So this guy installed some malware on my computer and he has tons of pics and videos that he had a really hard time to gather, as I could imagine (yes, read the email below!) and if I don't pay him $350 he's going to email that data to all my contacts.
I wonder how many people receiving such threat will fall for it. Especially because sending screenshots is not going to make it more believable that it is indeed my computer that he took the footage from. There are literally billions of people with similar computers?!
Not only that, many people receive emails with stuff like ...
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