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
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.195; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:14:33 -0800
Authentication-Results: mta158.mail.dcn.yahoo.com from=yahoo.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <wenkang1000@yahoo.com>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta158.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:14:32 -0800
Received: from jet13.hasweb.com ([66.193.230.227])
by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41)
id 1CX99S-000219-PH; Wed, 24 Nov
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Not too sure what this is about. To me it looks like some links will
go download a virus. And it is presented as I saw it: bad HTML. Well,
maybe some mail system would show the HTML as such, but not pine. 8-)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Alright, so many errors! First of all, Yahoo! is more likely to send you an
HTML email for such a thing. Plus, they would never ask you to send them a
password by email, what for?! Not only that, they have a brand and that's
Yahoo! with an exclamation mark at the end. And of course, the funniest part
is certainly the fact that the person used a verizon.net email address.
I'm sure a lot of Yahoo! personnel uses verizon email addresses to talk to
Yahoo! users! 8-)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Un petit africain qui croit savoir écrire en français? Il va avoir besoin de retourner à l'école alors il faudrait peut-être lui envoyer un peu d'argent, non?
Je sais que moi aussi j'écris pas trop bien en francais, mais là c'est grave! Bon enfin, une bonne partie de rigolade en fait... Moi je te dis: nous vour prions de nous croire!
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Last update: 01/14/2015
I found this one quite interesting. This is quite similar to the little problem which happened in the US a few years later: ENRON was covered with debts just like Deawood. Now this email is interesting since it talks about money from a bad guy who wants to invest it in other countries under your name since his name is kinda... in the bad press right now.
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S93CF> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <secretry_privateproject@virgilio.it>; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:28:15 ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Okay! J'ai mis ce mail parce que là c'est plutôt bizarre. He oui! La nana dit qu'elle est francaise!!! Moi je te dis, c'est un mec au Niger, mais c'est quand même marrant! 8-)
Un autre truc rigolo: elle parle de son employeur comme étant un maître! On dirait qu'elle aime ça!
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Last update: 02/18/2012
* I think I meant to say: "I don't think I'm talking your language..." or was I?
Okay! I'm a geek and in 2006 I'm still using pine to read my emails. So what? Well... some co[s]mic people write emails for HTML display only and the result in pine is quite funny so I thought I'd share my view. 8-)
Below you will see the HTML used to generate such gibberish and how the spammer intended me to see the email.
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:52:55 -0700
From: Mahmood Frye <frye@cmsrtp.com>
To: info@m2osw.com
Subject: Re: pexit refnnce
Parts/Attachments:
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Not too sure how to handle that one! I received this email today (Aug 21, 2008) and it says that the EFCC, a Nigerian body created to catch fraudsters, talked to me before and needs info about a certain guy whose name is not in existance, etc.
The interesting part is that they used what looks like the EFCC website, links, email addresses... In other words, it looks like it is coming straight from the EFCC. So I'm not too sure why he talks to me as if we had communicated before. I mentioned the EFCC on my Help Me! page...
So... maybe
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Last update: 11/01/2009
Interesting, this one had a fax number in the U.K., I would be really scared to give such a number since the police can be at your place the very next day!
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Last update: 07/06/2017
A funny one, not so much because of the email itself, but the guy just doesn't know how to write proper expressions. The grammar is otherwise mostly fine (well... it's a short one anyway).
Note that most (99%) of the sites sending you this kind of spam will claim that they are secure. A site is secure if (1) it has a currently valid certificate and (2) the pages where you pass your order [i.e. put your personal info such as your address, phone, credit card info] are secure. A secure page starts with https://... and when you enter these pages your browser doesn't warn you about the ...
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