Welcome and happy reading!

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:

  1. Your bank account,
  2. Your address — or any valid address if that matter,
  3. Your family, and
  4. 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!

Soap Bubbles

 

Latest Scams
  • Sgt Gerald Hendricks—Now something's up on Saddam's millions! 8-)
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Today, someone sent me an email about Hendricks. Nice name for a Sergeant, I guess...

    Hi Alexis,

    I came across your site while researching Sgt Hendricks. I notice you have nothing up on Saddam's millions scam. I have enclosed on of his original posts and his last email to me asking for my personal address and phone number etc.

    regards,

    xxxxxxx xxxxx
    xxxxx
    West Australia

    Hello My Dear

     
  • Norway Consulting 2006—Pink Ass, Punk Ass...
    Last update: 11/01/2009

    Okay... let's say I'm currently looking for a job. I receive this email and think: wow! 8% of 1 million is US $80,000! Of course, I want that kind of a salary (well most people would want such a salary.)

     
  • MR MANUSH ABU—call me 226 76239656, If you are really sure of your integerity
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    From manush abu Thu Apr 5 10:22:30 2007
X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.193; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:31:15 -0700
X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.246.110]
Return-Path:		<manush_abu32@hotmail.com>
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Received:		from 65.54.246.110 (EHLO bay0-omc1-s38.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.110) by mta153.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:31:08 -0700
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  • Sister Florince Maitama—That rich sister, amen!
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    Received:	from netscape616.com
		by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
		id <S7E7A> for <alexis@m2osw.com>
		from <florincemaitama@netscape.net>;
		Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:00:56 -0700
From:		Florince <florincemaitama@netscape.net>
To:		alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To:	maitama_maitama@yahoo.com
Subject:	URGENT REPLY
Date:		Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:02:32 +0200
MIME-Version:	1.0
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Dear Friend
Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
His richest blessings shal
     
  • Mira Gedu—i belive you don't have some thing upstairs
    Last update: 11/01/2009

    Nothing upstairs... what does that mean?! That I'm an idiot?

     
  • La Reine Franca—juste une information
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    La Reine Franca. Moui... Au Canada, on a des reines?

     
  • Frank Garry, Esq.—Mr. Edwin Gabriel made you a beneficiary to his WILL
    Last update: 10/01/2019

    I've seen a lot of things and I have to say that these scams have been evolving really fast in the last 2 or 3 years. At first, it was just something like my dad died (and you still get those), but this one is much different. This one is about a guy who put my name in his will. Imagine that. He dies, I get some money. Cool. US $1 million. And no phone call, no letter, no angry siblings, just an email. Hmmm... Is that a scam?!

     
  • Colonial Bank—toll-free number: 1-334-246-4229
    Last update: 07/06/2017

    I have see a lot of toll free numbers, but one that starts with 334 does not really sound free to me. What seems surprising is that this looks like an American phone number; Albama to be precise. (see Wikipedia for more info) I'm not too sure what the intend is here. Go to jail? Or would the number redirect to another number? Or that's the number of a stolen cell phone maybe.

    Return-Path:		<online@colonialbank.com>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
			by halk.m2osw.com ...
     
  • Rev.Evans Norman, Esquire—Retained by Henry Cox now late here in
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Cool! Look at the subject! Why not right away say what you're up to, hey?! 8-)

     
  • Jenkins Duba—this letter will not come to you as a surprise
    Last update: 11/01/2009

    Hey! No more surprise by such emails?!

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			id  for

    From: The Desk of Mr. Jenkins Duba
    email:jenkins_dunbar001@Safe-mail.net
    Chief Superintendent (Strong Room Storage) Dept.
    Diplomatic Union of West African States Securities Ltd.
    The Gambia-West Africa Delivery Area.

     

    Attn: Sir/Madam,