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
Return-Path: <nwinyer_n_okpala11@yahoo.co.in>
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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>
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Last update: 09/27/2013
A couple days ago, I subscribed to the RFP/RFQ from the City of Sacramento. Today, I got this email. Okay, very frankly, this is fortuitous, since he used my SourceForge email address. But I still thought that was an interesting coiencidence.
So... here we have someone who's trying to get our company's info. I'm not too sure what they can do with those, especially because what is being asked here is all available free on the Internet (just need to know where to look I guess). But well... this may only be the introduction and some people may think that since everything is available ...
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Last update: 09/27/2013
I like this one. Her name is Anicette. In France we have an alcoholic drink called "Anicet" made with Anis. It's also called Pastis 51, the main brand selling that drink.
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Last update: 09/27/2013
Okay... Un autre email avec une Ivoirienne qui ne sait plus comment s'y prendre donc elle me demande à moi, un vrai pro (des scams). Donc, 12.500000 ça représente quoi déjà? Un vrai pro comme moi devrait savoir. En français, le point représente le séparateur des milliers (tous les trois chiffres). Bon... il en manque juste un. Donc c'est bon, c'est bien 12.5 million de dollars. Par contre, dans sa phrase, le "de" devant "dollar" (singulier, hummm!) est de trop.
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Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:23:05 -0700
From: "MRS MARY GILLIAN" <INTERNATIONAL_LOTTO@REDIFFMAIL.COM>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:26:52 +0000
Subject: MRS MARY GILLIAN
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Loterrie, avec tous les détails de ce que j'ai gagné!
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:21:06 +0000
Subject: VOUS AVEZ GAGNE...
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