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: 10/31/2009
The following was one single email, funny, isn't it?!
From tony smith Sat Jan 6 00:15:34 2007
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.159; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:15:37 -0800
X-Originating-IP: [205.152.59.68]
Return-Path:
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <SF9C1> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <promotiongames@voila.fr>; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:17:31 -0800
Received: from smtp1.voila.fr (smtp1.voila.fr [193.252.22.174])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0C526AD8B
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:21:59 -0800 (PST)
Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mwinf4001.voila.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 24D2D5800179;
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:21:51 +0100
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Last update: 10/31/2009
First time I see one like this! Look here, I tried to make a
transfer of $10 million somehow. And it looks like it did not
work because of some jerk intermediary or something. Or maybe
it could be because I do not have $10 million... Hmmm... I'll
have to ponder the question. This is complicated!
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.113; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:35:55 -0800
Return-Path: <usman.bello1@voila.fr>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta281.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:35:53 -0800
Received: from smtp1.voila.fr ([193.252.22.174] helo=mwinf4003.voila.fr)
by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
id 1B95AW-00011B-AT; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:35:52 -0800
Received: from wwinf4001 (wwinf4001 [172.22.157.28])
by mwinf4003.voila.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP
id 81E4D180
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Return-Path: <vallery_dogbo@yahoo.fr>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com (colo [168.150.251.50])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14E81BDE4
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.66])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 67DC426ACE9
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (qmail 69675 invoked by uid 60001); 12 ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
The link under HERE below was like this (it was on one long line):
<a target="_blank"href="http://www.opaian.nl/data/.support/www.amazon.com/
flex/sign-out.html/2Fhomepage=protocol=httpsaction=sign-out/exec.php?cmd=sign-in">
Notice that the email looks really darn good otherwise! Well... beside a few
spaces missing and an unbeliviable story that is.
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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
Return-Path: <memsvc@vacu.org>
X-Original-To: contact@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from talarii.ru (mail.talarii.ru [62.141.67.91])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF9F1BDDC
for <contact@halk.m2osw.com>; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
X-Spam-Flag: SKIP
X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona 1.5.2
Received: from [207.59.123.82] (account abuse HELO User)
by talarii.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.9)
with ESMTPA id 2000011; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:22:43 +0400
Reply-To: <no-reply@vacu.org>
From: "Customer ...
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Last update: 07/06/2017
Many people will buy into pretty much anything on the net. I have found many scam. This one, however, I have to write a page about it. It costs $25 to $50 to do a document search. Document that is free, but usually not accessible because it is in some archive in another state if not another country. So, hey! $50 would be quite cheap if you think of it... That is, if the search was real.
So? How does this one work? I look for my marriage, baby, divorce, death in San Francisco, California. Since none of that happened there for me in San Francisco, it could be someone else with my name... Well. ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
This is one of these people who think I'll sell something to them
just because they wrote an email to me. I'm not too sure how many
people will want to make money that way, but I just don't look forward
to working with thieves. This being said, it was a great experience.
The guy took his time to reply to my email and said pretty much the
same thing that he said in the first email.
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