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: 02/18/2012
No wonder that this is top secret stuff! It includes DOLLERS, no really, 'E', not 'A'. It's a top secret currency anyway. That's why you did not hear about it. The main problem is, because it is top secret, you cannot use that money for anything... And please, don't tell anybody! 8-)
Return-Path: <usmanamadu2@hotmail.fr>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from bay0-omc3-s26.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-s26.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.226])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Now a day, there are loads of spammers who send you emails which
they hope will go through your anti-spam filter. Note that if
you have a spam filter, it's likely that you do not want their
emails and thus forcing them through is rather useless.
Now my question is: Who are the morons who answer such emails?!?
Not even one sentence is correct English!!! (plus the format is
broken! which means that maybe there was an attempt to attach an
image.)
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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: 10/31/2009
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com
by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S7877> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com> from <am_andre2001@katamail.com>;
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:17:42 -0700
Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70C826AD59
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:18:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from imp1-g19.free.fr (imp1-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.1])
by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629E72255E;
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Lucky us: this fund is not linked to drug and other unlawful activities!
Well... what fund? anyway? 8-)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Lately I have received many emails like this one. Beside the "there is absolutly
no content in that email...", the email has a link to a blog. I thought that was
weird. So I tried to see what that was about. The fact is that the link goes to
a .exe file. This one was specifically to a file named iloveyou.exe and obviously
nothing else in the page. So if I wanted to know what this is really about, I'd
need a Windows box to trash (really...
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Last update: 09/27/2013
I like this one. Her name is Anicette. In France we have an alcoholic drink called "Anicet" made with Anis. It's also called Pastis 51, the main brand selling that drink.
Return-Path: <anicette_koffi00o@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 4AF461BDE2
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from web27510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web27510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ...
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Last update: 02/18/2012
He! He! Calvary greetings! She must be a horse rider. Lucky me! 8-)
Also, as many people do, instead of hitting Enter multiple times, Anita used the spacebar to align things properly. It certainly looks good on her computer...
Return-Path: <anita.tedbrown2000@hotmail.com>
X-Original-To: info@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 0419D1BDE2
for <info@halk.m2osw.com>; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
From Ann Harrison Fri Jun 24 16:24:34 2005
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.199; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:20:22 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [66.18.69.6]
Return-Path: <annharrison@jmail.co.za>
Authentication-Results: mta313.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=jmail.co.za; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 66.18.69.6 (EHLO mail02.infosat.net) (66.18.69.6)
by mta313.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:20:22 -0700
Received: from [196.38.110.40] (HELO mail01.infosat.net)
by mail02.infosat.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP
id 272633
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Last update: 10/31/2009
With authorization from the author, I'm putting this email here
because I think it can make some people understand better why
scams, hoax, phishing, etc. work so well...
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