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: 12/27/2018
A few days ago, I got this letter from TMWorldwide and I think I did not even read it. Anyway, it is in regard to getting my trademark registered worldwide, I guess. Ah! Now I wrote the transcript. So I know. It is all about a catalogue. Good. Good. A catalogue of USD 1,300.0... Hmmm...
There is the letter... One day, you may get the same, if you also get your own trademark. See also USTMS.
[Page 1 transcript:]
[top-left logo:]
TMWorldwide
[top-right box:]
Reference No.: 08/ 138843
Date: 14 July 2008.
[top title (large):]
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF TRADEMARKS 2008
[1st ...
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Last update: 04/03/2014
Not too long ago, I got this letter from USTMS saying that they would actually make sure that my trademark is properly protected. I read the thing a bit to see how much they would charge and such.
Well... Point one, they are not attorneys. That's funny because so far those I heard of monitoring trademarks are attorneys. Funny, hey?! Bar start, I will say.
And so, what's the price? A little cheaper than the IDM company since this one is only US $395.00. Plus the stamp because the envelope is not pre-stamped...
Whether they really do something that's useful, hey! Maybe it works ...
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Last update: 11/24/2014
The following is a sample of what you can receive (first time for me!) from who knows who asking you to go change your password or something like that...
This is a scam, it will actually reproduce the screens from the bank and of course it will expect you to type in your account information. After that, the person can transfer whatever money to wherever...
This is most certainly why CitiBank blocks access to their login screens from outside of the US. Now that's not a solution since hackers have access to thousands of computers in the U.S. and hackers have much better to go via ...
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Last update: 07/06/2017
A little while ago, I started to promote my company's new product: Turn Watcher (an Initiative Tracker for Game Masters). With it, I got a huge increase of spam. It was increasing anyway, but that got to the level of close to 100 totally useless emails a day filling over 1Mb of my mailbox in no time!
So I decided to create a spam filter. It works great and I have about 100 emails block per day. One very important point of my filter: it doesn't check the origins (i.e. the From: parameter) of the emails. This is not only not reliable, it's actually common people with valid emails ...
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Last update: 09/04/2009
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com
by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S7E5F> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <bgllot_todpt@virgilio.it>; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:16:23 -0700
Received: from vsmtp4.tin.it (vsmtp4.tin.it [212.216.176.224])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F8526AD34
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from pswm5.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.22) by vsmtp4.tin.it (7.2.072.1)
id 44888DCB005C6A80; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:08:16 +0200
Message-ID: &
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Last update: 11/01/2009
God bess you! He! He! I actually got an answer from this idiot.
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Last update: 11/23/2014
 There is a new kind of scam! This guy is certainly looking to get your information and most preferably your advanced payment, for nothing more than smoke. Hey! Who would not want to have a couple of nice little dogs? For sure, I wouldn't respond to such an email... 8-)
Now if you have any idea why there is this "(prof}" in there, let me know! 8-)
Return-Path: <root@69-64-79-150.dedicated.abac.net>
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 (Postfix) with ...
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Last update: 11/23/2014
Note: Dunno if Amazon really sends emails like these with a font size of 9pt, but I cannot read 9pt on my screen. Even on paper that's small. So I changed this email to 12pt which now I can mostly read without having to zooming.
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com
by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S7C1D> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com> from <update-account@amazon.com>;
Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:38:13 -0700
Received: from mail.hdscenter.org (unknown [206.210.69.21])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ...
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Last update: 11/23/2014
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.195; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:55:35 -0700
Authentication-Results: mta251.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=virgilio.it; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [212.216.176.118]
Return-Path: <v_atlantic@virgilio.it>
Received: from 212.216.176.118 (EHLO vsmtp14.tin.it) (212.216.176.118)
by mta251.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:55:35 -0700
Received: from ims1d.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.101) by vsmtp14.tin.it (7.0.027) id 4227B87800E7F5EB
for alexis_wilke@yahoo.com; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:55:33 +0200
Received: from ...
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Last update: 11/23/2014
For this one I don't have the email header, but it's still a funny one! The first image is what I received and it's totally unreadable. I don't even see why anyone would want to try to decipher it! The 2nd image is what you can get once you applied some very simple transformations to the source. In other words, the scrambling there is totally useless.
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