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
Good one! I'm his Dear Partner and he has to present himself
to me in details because I think I actually don't know my Dear Partner...
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Last update: 02/18/2012
This is scary... Look at the white text in the bill: "Someone has sent you up to $1,500.00!!!". Beside the fact that this is not proper English, but well... It is past so I already received the money, but they do not know how much and if you want you can CLICK HERE to get to the place to get that money that "Someone" (a bank) has sent you already (in your dream, I guess.) Okay good. What am I going to do with $1,500 that I have to pay back? I have a bit more advance on my credit card and my balance is... $0. I think I do not need to work to pay the banks. Well... The ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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From: Mr.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Okay, I'll pass on the syntax in that email for now. It is obvious that people writing spam emails do it on purpose to swart tools such as my anti-spam software. Now, this is fine, it gives me a little more fun work to do.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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Last update: 10/31/2009
At the start
First time I see a scam about the holocaust victimes and their
bank accounts. Note that the person says he's a member of an
organization in Switzerland and then says he's in America...
Also I looked for a list of the ICEP members and I could not
find any one under the name Roland Z. Bersson (Bresson? neither!)
And the subject... the name of the guy. Ha! Good joke.
Episode II
I received another copy of this email today... and I noticed one
other thing! The following sentence:
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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From: Billy Bangura <dickdada@postino.it>
To: alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To: d_dada@postino.it
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL!!
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:49:04 +0100
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Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="d3c36a18-9c66-4ef3-8bfd-08f629630bec"
Dear sir,
CONFIDENTIAL
Compliment of the day!
With the good reference made of your esteemed personal/office by the chamber
of commerce here in
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Last update: 10/31/2009
I must obviously have been talking with this guy on the phone. I mean,
you know, who would send me an email saying he talked with me about the
79,000 dollar bills all of $100 but the guy who talked to me on the phone?!
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