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: 11/24/2014
These days I receive a lot of PDF files. In general I just delete them. Some ISPs decided to just kick them out (not too good for Adobe!) The problem is that all of these PDF are only about buying some shares in some company to supposedly make some money. I've looked at a few of these schemes and did not really see much movement on most of these actions. This certainly means that people don't invest just because they receive an email. Yet, it must work at times because otherwise scammer would not continue to scam with that scheme. And instead of reducing it, it grows! Maybe we should ...
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Last update: 07/06/2017
Got that one this morning. Funny. The guy wants to buy some of my products with a credit card. I mean, you know, I have sold many products and never had someone send me an email like this one. Anyway...
The funniest part is when he says: gimme your website URL!
He wants some of my products but he does not even know what the heck I'm selling. Guess what, at my company we are selling stuff that have nothing to do with what he wants. I'd bet pretty much anything since most people do not want a software library or even Turn Watcher...
And in case you want to know more about my ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
From odi benson Tue May 2 17:34:10 2006
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.158; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:35:16 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [64.4.54.106]
Return-Path: <ogaderson@hotmail.com>
Authentication-Results: mta263.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 64.4.54.106 (EHLO hotmail.com) (64.4.54.106)
by mta263.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:35:12 -0700
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Tue, 2 May 2006 17:35:00 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY20-F17A1AF9F3836E9CB0E6EB
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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First time for everything! Look at that, this is bad, I'm going to
have an invoice that says "Live Strip Chat Camera Sexy Girls".
How am I going to explain that one to my wife?! Or maybe I won't
click on the fake link? Because http://mail.gsasurveying.com/login/
has probably nothing to do with PayPal, right?
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Last update: 10/31/2009
This is an interesting one, I think. This email tells you that this 'wrong'
email address that YOU just defined was accepted and will be used in 3
days as the official one. Of course, if you have a PayPal account you
probably want to rectify and give away your password... That's the
trick here. Notice that the link goes through Google which obviously
would not accept PayPal just like that, especially without mentioning it.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
The following is a scam trying to get your credentials
to illegally access your Paypal account.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.101; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:24:36 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 66.35.250.206
Return-Path: <guobadia_omon45@bigpond.com>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO mail.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta153.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:24:36 -0800
Received: from mta08bw.bigpond.com ([144.135.24.137])
by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net
with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AqwCq-0008Vd-9c; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:23:16 -0800
Received: from email.bigpond.com ([172.26.102.148])
by mta08bw.email.bigpond.com (iPlane
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Received: from web52504.mail.yahoo.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S8E97> for <contact@m2osw.com>
from <ooluwashino@yahoo.com>; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:15:17 -0700
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DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.202; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:48:53 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <john.ado@epost.de>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta178.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:48:53 -0700
Received: from mail.epost.de ([193.28.100.151]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net
with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bo0Pe-0001z7-9j; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:48:43 -0700
Received: from [62.192.151.3] by mail.epost.de with HTTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:48:05 +0200
Date: Fri, 23
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Last update: 10/31/2009
He! He! I liked the subject of this one!
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