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
  • Barclays Bank Customer Service—Update your records on or before 48 hours
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Here there is a really good letter. I mean, really believable to my point of view, that is, if you have a Barclays bank account...

    Of course, the comment at the end that you have to act in 48h gave me the insight (he! he!). A bank would give you at least 30 days, if not 60, to remedy to such problems. And holding your funds is better than losing it to some phisher...

     
  • Barrister Leke—I've got my clients' money!
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.102; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:58:17 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk:		66.35.250.206
Return-Path:			<lekeomobude@indiatimes.com>
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  • James Bell, ESQ—[they] were involved in a car accident
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.198; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 05:34:44 -0700
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<james_l_bell@jumpy.it>
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  • My mother in law—Is there a way to stop offers from coming?
    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...

     
  • Dr.Michael Avans—Your email ID emerged winner
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    When I emerged out of bed this morning, I found out that I had emerged as a winner!

    Well... anyway... see message for details!

     
  • Amoussou—Obviously a Surprise
    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
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  • Andrews Paul—The fund is free from drug and laundering
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Lucky us: this fund is not linked to drug and other unlawful activities! Well... what fund? anyway? 8-)

     
  • Can't stay away from you—iloveyou.exe
    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...

     
  • Saloma—I have 4 kids
    Last update: 11/01/2009

    See for an answer below. Ho yeah!

     
  • Ann Harrison—A Top Model with absolutly no brain
    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)
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