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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Latest Scams |
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Last update: 09/04/2009
Funny... 8-) I mean, you know, someone named Bobo... that sounds funny to me. In French, "bobo" means a "little hurt". A word with use with small kids. Anyway... That's a normal Arabic name. I have a friend named Bibi, after all.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
This one was not a direct scam. Instead, it was a spam email about your USPS package (that they call UPS...) and you had an attachment with a virus. The virus is most certainly a trojan horse that reads your keyboard and other such data to get your credentials with time.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Peugeot... Faillait que je mette cet email ici car j'ai grandi juste à coté de Peugeot. Alors quand je vois une email qui me dit que j'ai gagné une Tombola de chez Mr Peugeot en Angleterre... Ça me fait bien rire. 8-) Surtout que le siège de PSA est à Paris, pas à Londres.
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Last update: 03/29/2014
First, I won't make a joke of it, but this one looks like an American scam directed to an African. I thought it was important to note because so far it has been scams going the other way around!
I do not have the original of these emails, but I the person who received it says they sent some money. Interestingly enough, the URL brings you to a complicated website that understands the name of the person, amount of the check, etc. In other words, the site is dynamic and working properly.
The URLs looked like this:
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Last update: 10/31/2009
I don't recall seeing a Google prize before. That one is for their Anniversary. Also, first time I hear about a Google Anniversary via email just out of the blue! Anyway... Maybe I'll catch the Google X-Prize. That would be neat. 8-)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Good one! He actually says that the US government was involved in the resolution of this one. Most certainly true! Right? Hmmm...
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Last update: 09/04/2009
Funny, I got this email last week and the week before with the exact same name. Susan Walter. Okay, so this one is funny since Susan is actually an American who got some money after she pushed the Nigerian government to pay for it. US $8.2 million. What contract, I'm not too sure, there aren't too many people who can get a contract for that much money anywhere in the world. And these people are usually well known. Anyway... this tells you to beware of scams and not let go if you "lost" (spent?!) money trying to get these payments. Good luck with that!
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Return-Path: <leslie_clive@sgcib.com>
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(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
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Last update: 09/04/2009
Return-Path: <barristeuyrnkono@jmail.co.za>
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Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD7F1BDCC
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:49:43 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from phosphorus.onspeed1.com (phosphorus.onspeed.com [212.100.250.226])
(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by mail.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D27678408A
for <alexis@m2osw.com&g
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Last update: 08/23/2009
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!)
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