Welcome and happy reading!

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:

  1. Your bank account,
  2. Your address — or any valid address if that matter,
  3. Your family, and
  4. 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!

Soap Bubbles

 

Latest Scams
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
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  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    If you speak proper French, this is going to be hard to read... and also fun! 8-) One thing, the person jumps from "tu" to "vous" and it just sounds like a kid talking to you.

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.193; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:25:01 -0700
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    These days I got an increase of Random Content. And that's just plain... weird. I can understand the concept of sending emails to sell things such as Viagra and Porn, but emails which are randomly generated with content randomly taken from websites, I don't get it.

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
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    Reply-To:			"Powell Morgan." <pow4morgan@yahoo.no>
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    This is really becoming sad. Now here they are telling you that kids need to be adopted and if you get them, you'll get close to 1 million dollars... All of that to get your money. Hmmmm....

     
  • Last update: 07/06/2017

    There is a new one from eBay. I won't say "Poor eBay", they make tons of money and this is probably more advertising than anything else for them. But here we have a funny one!

    Your account has been accessed from a foreign IP address


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  • Last update: 11/24/2014

    The link in this one was on an artist website. The artist just has a Flash animation in there. The hacker added the directory named "onlinebanking" and put a copy of the bank's website.

    http://art-altnurme.com/onlinebanking/index.html

    Now it sounds like the bank did have a website without encryption before. That's most certainly the case. All banks do just that. Website with no encryption, no certificate, nothing. And all your data floats around just like in totally clear text! Yeah! Right! And sure they need us to confirm we're still alive. Say the bank has ...

     
  • Last update: 02/18/2012

    That's new! Now the court is contacting me to apologies and offer me to get paid back for all that money I lost before because of nigerian scams.

    Note too sure, but... is there a federal court in Nigeria? The fact is there is! Whaaaaooo! That part is not a total lie.

    Also, I like the "Working I'd". Notice the apostrophy?


    From FEDERAL HIGH COURT Wed Mar 19 23:18:53 2008
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