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
  • Mr Salif Dialo—REPLY AS SOON AS POSSBILE THIS IS NOT A JUNCK REPLY PLEASE
    Last update: 11/20/2014 
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.161; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:27:53 -0800
X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.233.114]
Return-Path:		<salifd13@hotmail.com>
Authentication-Results:	mta121.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:		from 65.54.233.114 (EHLO hotmail.com) (65.54.233.114)
			by mta121.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:27:51 -0800
Received:		from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
			Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:27:51
     
  • TONY SMITH—letter x 3 in a single email!
    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:
     
  • Cahill Mike—in my previouse mail...
    Last update: 02/19/2014

    Got a picture from that one. Whether it's him, dunno... trying to get another picture now... See my 2nd reply below. 8-)

    Date:		Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:20:34 -0800 (PST)
From:		Alexis Wilke <alexis@m2osw.com>
To:		cahill_mike3@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re:	Urgent Response
In-Reply-To:	<trPJBjmnwt$41.208.139.44$.47b8c181.af9db.56b0.50586@oxygen.onspeed.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0802182220030.11638@halk.m2osw.com>
References:	<trPJBjmnwt$41.208.139.44$.47b8c181.af9db.56b0.50586@oxygen.onspeed.com>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Content-Type:	TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; ...
     
  • Usman Amadu—TOP SECRET
    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
     
  • Mr. alhaji ibrahim—AND YOU MOVE TO YOUR BANK
    Last update: 02/18/2012

    At last one guy says it upfront: you'll have to pay a fee. That's all that will happen, but hey... he's telling you that you will have to spend some money to get what he's telling you that you will get. And he repeats it three times. Just in case it wasn't clear the first time.

    But of course, the best is: AND YOU MOVE TO YOUR BANK. Welcome to your new safe, hope it's large enough for you...

    Received:		from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
			id <S164BA> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
			from
     
  • Tracy White—PEPSI INTERNATIONAL/AWARD PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
    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
     
  • Mr.Malick Diop jr.—I am waits for your prompt response .
    Last update: 02/18/2012

    I though the subject of this email was good. That is, I just planned to go to a green conference in two weeks and thus seeing THE GREEN  PROJECT

    And as usual, you have that "Attn/Dear ..." that is left blank. They probably don't even know they are supposed to put your name in there. Or they send those to a massively large number of people and do not have the time/courage to enter the info anyway.

    Return-Path:		<mallickdiop011@yahoo.com>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo
     
  • Capital One, N.A.—Due to recent account takeovers
    Last update: 11/24/2014

    This is an interesting one... Looks totally real!

    The link looks like the place to go to connect to CapitalOne, but of course, the true URL was like this:

      http://www.remetzo.gr/.support/onlinebanking.capitalone.com/online.service/oas/login.htm

    As usual, the hackers don't even offer a secure server. Makes sense, you'd get an "error" saying that your browser cannot verify their certificate!

    Okay, now what's funny here is that CapitalOne does not accept my browser to connect to their service. Thus, I cannot use CapitalOne online (not like I care, just a note). You ...

     
  • Mr.David M.Asuka—IN CONFIDENCE
    Last update: 02/18/2012 
    Return-Path:		<dvzz1@hotmail.fr>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from bay0-omc2-s39.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s39.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.175])
			by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CE41BDE5
			for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
Received:		from BLU113-W11 ([10.6.16.46]) by bay0-omc2-s39.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft
			SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668);
			Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:45:12
     
  • George F Kone—Please fill free to go through this proposal
    Last update: 02/18/2012

    This one is really funny just because it is so badly writte.
    «fill free to delete this email, it is of the ultmost importance»

    Return-Path:		<drfrancis_kone01@yahoo.ca>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from n75.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com
			(n75.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.44.51])
			by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DCF621BDCC
			for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>;
			Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received:		from [216.252.122.219] by n75.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com
			with NNFMP; 22 Apr