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 206.190.38.197; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:39:28 -0800
Authentication-Results: mta148.mail.sc5.yahoo.com from=tiscali.no; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <judewill@tiscali.no>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
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Last update: 11/01/2009
A bit of German for practice...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Return-Path: <modibo_sow113@hotmail.com>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from bay0-omc1-s26.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s26.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.98])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244DA1BDE2
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
This is a new way to send people a virus. The good thing (if I may say) is that
the virus does not get directly in your mailbox. But people who follow the
link thinking: wow! I received a card, certainly do see a card at the end. But
it is a virus. This only affects MS-Windows (big surprise) but hey... it's still
is a virus. What kind, I don't know and it really doesn't matter to me. Just
watch out for yourself!
Note that I removed the incoming email since it can very well be a legitimate
email address that the virus used to email me.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.199; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:56:39 -0700
Return-Path: <tonymoore999@tiscali.it>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta285.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:56:39 -0700
Received: from mail-1.tiscali.it ([195.130.225.147])
by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
id 1BYqGd-0000w1-PA; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:56:39 -0700
Received: from [209.159.171.106] by mail-1.tiscali.it
with HTTP; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:56:13 +0200
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Don't you like it when the formatting of one of
these emails end up like this....
From masara_ogunu@virgilio.it Mon Dec 5 10:02:44 2005
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.157; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:48:47 -0800
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <masara_ogunu@virgilio.it>
Authentication-Results: mta119.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=virgilio.it; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO mail.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta119.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:48:45 -0800
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <SF7E6> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis.cell@halk.m2osw.com>
from <stocknews@torktool.com>; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:46:35 -0800
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Today I got a message on my answering machine and I was wondering
what it was about. So I checked out the website and noticed after
a couple clicks that the service was actually not free. I have no
idea what the site really is about, but when I saw stuff for sale,
I started to wonder. I guess that in the long run it somehow pays
since they are still in business and according to a blog I read,
they have have been in business for a while. Especially since they
are getting financed by others and that for big money!
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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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Return-Path: <micheal_lamine1@centrum.cz>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
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