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: 02/18/2012
Funny one. This one was supposed to be sent from paypal. Notice that the Return-Path is set to www.paypal.com@m2osw.com, sensical?! Anyway, it was sent to me or maybe some undisclosed recipients. And also, it was sent by "www.paypal.com"<www.paypal.com>
Return-Path: <www.paypal.com@m2osw.com>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C5E1BDCC
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:04:31 -0700
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Return-Path: <sidratus09@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A8F1BF31
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from qb-out-1314.google.com (qb-out-1314.google.com [72.14.204.174])
by mail.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D9C1B4FC0BC
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by qb-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id c5so2909823qbc.2
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Last update: 12/27/2018
A few days ago, I got this letter from TMWorldwide and I think I did not even read it. Anyway, it is in regard to getting my trademark registered worldwide, I guess. Ah! Now I wrote the transcript. So I know. It is all about a catalogue. Good. Good. A catalogue of USD 1,300.0... Hmmm...
There is the letter... One day, you may get the same, if you also get your own trademark. See also USTMS.
[Page 1 transcript:]
[top-left logo:]
TMWorldwide
[top-right box:]
Reference No.: 08/ 138843
Date: 14 July 2008.
[top title (large):]
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF TRADEMARKS 2008
[1st ...
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Usually viruses are included in your email and they are easy to detect (for people such as me at least...) with stuff such as: Open the attached document, that's URGENT, from someone you never ever heard of ever.
This one, of course, I never heard of the sender either, but the difference here is that the "hacker" is asking you to click on a link which will download an executable (for Windows, again, won't work under my Linux box, do you have a Linux box too? That's already 99% protection against these attacks!)
Not too sure whether this was effective, but some people ...
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Last update: 03/06/2018
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!
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com
by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
This is an interesting one... The "Attn:" says "Sir/Madam". Isn't that
funny?! I mean, they are hackers, why could they not find a software that
find your name and stick it in there??
Well... I'll tell you why! That's because they don't even know how to
write name themselves. Look at it, all the first and last names are
stuck together.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Okay... the camps and stuff isn't funny stuff but as you can see this
person is using it, not me! What is funny is that two different names
appear in the email. Just as if two different people were talking here.
Not only that, there are different matters which have nothing to do
between each others. Quite a mess! 8-)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.194; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:52:31 -0700
Authentication-Results: mta167.mail.dcn.yahoo.com from=technisamail.co.za; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <jerrysteve23@technisamail.co.za>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
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Received: from mailout06.infosat.net ([66.18.69.6] helo=mail02.infosat.net)
by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
The joke is at the end... I don't recall getting a massage while
reading this email, did I?!
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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>
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Received: from mail.epost.de ([193.28.100.151]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net
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