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: 11/22/2014
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Last update: 06/25/2014
Ah ha! There is why these people do not want to give their real name: for political reasons!
Good. Good.
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Last update: 04/03/2014
Okay... I hit a record last night (Fri 20, 2006 to Sat 21, 2006): 550 emails in about 14 hours (I already had 483 in about 8 hours!)
I'd say, wow! so many compagnies offering all of these wonderful products... But let's look a bit at the subject of these 550 emails... First of all, I do a "cat 550.txt | sort -u | wc" and I get 309. That means 241 emails are duplicates. Who would want to do that?! Total idiots? Certainly. Imagine that I send you 242 times the exact same email. How stupid would you think I am to do such a thing? And yet, if these people continue to send the ...
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Last update: 04/03/2014
Another letter brought to you by unscroupulus people... This one arrived in my mail box. The standard one. You know... the one next to the house. It's also called SnailMail. I won't put too much comments, there is another such letter I received which includes quite many comments (See LVAAP).
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Last update: 11/24/2014
Wow! I'm not too sure I understand what did happen at CapitalOne here!? I got the page presented at the bottom for a little while and now it seems to work just fine (I get what I assume would be the regular login screen.) It could be that they were protecting their users from different bad emails going around (like this one.) This is still really weird!
Okay, usually, I don't mind too much what businesses do... but now that's becoming really really really bad!!!
I suppose Banks are not listening to what is happening in the world and thus they have to do the contrary of what ...
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Last update: 03/30/2014
Not too sure what people can do with an access to NetSpend since as far as I can tell, they would not transfer money from your NetSpend account to someone "random". But maybe the person can enter oneself as a company which is to be paid some money and just send a check... which means we'll know his/her address. And if it's overseas, it's quite unlikely that it will work. The other thing would be identity theft... Anyway, hopefully they don't show the SSN of their users anywhere!
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Last update: 03/30/2014
Ha! This one was sent to me by Philippe, from France. Crooks are all over and I'm going to do another page tonight about that... white collars, ever heard about them?! The US has legal crooks who charge you money so thieves don't steal you. How about preventing the thieves from stealing you in the first place and have them (the crooks) pay for the expenses? Oh! But I forgot that money was stolen so it cannot go to paying back anything, it has to go back to the treasury. Is the treasury the biggest crook then?!
always $ 12 000 000! All ivorian orphans have exactly the same ...
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Last update: 03/31/2014
Not too sure whether this is guenine or not. Unwanted emails are usually not that good anyway. On the other hand, they are offering to stop sending emails to you. You simply have to mail them a letter to their office in Panama. Chances that your email gets removed? Not very high if you want my opinion. So this must be some sort of a scam. Also the website home page goes to nowhere. Some blank page or something.
The links looked like this:
<a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank"
href="http://temoel.com/redir.php?id=96571&e=alexis_wilke@yahoo.com">
I ...
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Last update: 03/30/2014
Another letter brought to you by unscroupulus people... This one arrived in my mail box. The standard one. You know... the one next to the house. It's also called SnailMail. I won't put too much comments, there is another such letter I received which includes quite many comments (See LVAAP).
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Last update: 04/03/2014
I guess I never wrote a page for this one! ODM...
Well... Not so new, I already have 4 other pages about these type of letters asking you incredibly high sums to put your mark in their catalogue. They call you advertiser. Why would people want to advertise their trademark?! Did I miss something here?
You may want to have a look at IDM and USTMS where I put a table at the end with a list of "bad" guys like these.
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