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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Last update: 02/08/2010
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Last update: 02/14/2014
This one's funny... it is a Sequel!!!
Return-Path: <agallego@unse.edu.ar>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jc [69.55.233.23])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3711BDE4
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:44:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mxb.unse.edu.ar (mxb.unse.edu.ar [170.210.224.15])
(using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by mail.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2E2242A321
for ...
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Received the following as if I had posting something on craigslist. I guess it would work if I even knew what a TREK MADONE was...
In any event, that's a scam with the attempt to get your account info and thus use your account to post even more crap on craigslist.org
The real URLs in this email were to:
http://craigslusg.szm.com//craigslist.htm?accounts.craigslist.org/login/chgpwd
Which, as you can see, are not directing you to craigslist.
Another thing, I'll have to check, but this email was sent in HTML and I think that craigslist.org, on ...
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Last update: 01/17/2010
There you go... I should receive something from DHL, so I have to contact FedEx to pay for some custom thing (tax/stamp duty) but that they could not pay although they did pay for the transportation already... Hmmm...
Now I'm still wondering... what is that INTEL security thing???
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Last update: 01/08/2010
The links in this email were pointing to http://ezworldwideaccess.com As we can see below, it was registered about 1 year ago. So they are using their URLs for a while! However, the front page is blank (no data sent).
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Last update: 02/22/2018
There you go... I'm not going to tell you that I'm not a fraudster since that would mean I am one.
I think that's the first time that I see a message that insist on that one.
Oh! And by the way, I got the message via Windows Live private messaging. Yep! If you use any system like Windows Live (i.e. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn...) you are not unlikely going to receive fun messages like this one.
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Ah! Well... for M$80 that's worth the trouble, right?!
Note that I'm an undisclosed recipient again...
Return-Path: <hornes.leventus@msn.com>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from web1.bss-gt.com (host83-241-149-62.serverdedicati.aruba.it [62.149.241.83])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D0F6C6D4A
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:14:13 -0800 (PST)
Received: (qmail 5226 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2009 20:41:43 +0200
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Last update: 12/03/2009
Emile John December 2 at 12:20pm
Hello ,
I am Barrister Emile John, a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr.J C.Wilke, a national of your country,who used to work as a contractor in Lome Togo West Africa.
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Last update: 11/28/2009
Help in Real Estate investment. Just like that... I'm wondering why was it necessary for this guy to have escaped his country to have such a need. And he's lucky he still has some cash, I guess.
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Last update: 11/16/2009
"the subject matter; Mohamed came to our bank ..."
Interesting way to talk of someone, don't you think?
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