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
  • Mike Rossman—Let me introduce my self as ...
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.198; Fri, 06 May 2005 11:59:37 -0700
Authentication-Results:		mta211.mail.dcn.yahoo.com from=faithmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<cgi-mailer-bounces-13487088@kundenserver.de>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
				by mta211.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 06 May 2005 11:59:37 -0700
Received:			from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.191]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net
				with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DU81j-0003jN-Oq; Fri,
     
  • Yaya Diouf—To establish a business in your country
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    Received:	from diouf-help378.com
		by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
		id <SAD1A> for <alexis@m2osw.com> from <yaya@diouf-help.la>;
		Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:03:13 -0700
From:		Yaya Diouf <yaya@diouf-help.la>
To:		alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To:	yaya1diouf@yahoo.fr
Subject:	Respect Fully From Mr Yaya Diouf & Sister
Date:		Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:04:30 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Content-Type:	multipart/mixed; boundary="51ff5c9f-4fd4-4520-93cd-878ac729168d"

    Dear ,
    I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Côte d'Ivoire. My sources

     
  • Diplomi, Degrees, etcetera—I need to prove I can write!
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Okay! There is currently a wave of Diplomi, Degrees, etcetera that you can purchase. This is a mostly legal piece of paper which says that you are capable of doing these things that you say you can do in your Curriculum Vitae.

    Now, of course, you would think that if you are to get a diploma from any institution, they will be academic. When I read that word, academic, it sounds to me that if I talk to them, I will be talking to people who know how to read and write, and this at a higher level than average.

     
  • Donald Abeki—Let's do it in German
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.199; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:37:34 -0800
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<donaldabeki@tiscali.no>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
				by mta419.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:37:34 -0800
Received:			from smtp130.tiscali.dk ([62.79.79.112]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net
				with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1CQDdu-0002RK-8s; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:37:24 -0800
Received:			from cpmail.dk.tiscali.com (mail.tiscali.dk [212.54.64.159])
     
  • Mrs.Dora Okereke.—I found you with my Genealogycal research!
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    Return-Path:		<mrsdora_okereke1@myway.com>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from snap.turnwatcher.com (colo [168.150.251.50])
			by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B181BDE2
			for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:44:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received:		from mail03.talkactive.net (loadbalancing01.talkactive.net [195.128.174.2])
			by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id BDD1426ACFA
			for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:44:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received:		(qmail 65978 invoked from network); 16 Jun 200
     
  • Mrs. Ann Dubem—Compliments of the day!!
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.200; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:09:52 -0700
X-YahooFilteredBulk:		66.35.250.206
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<mrsann100@email.ro>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
				by mta301.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:09:52 -0700
Received:			from zerg.cluj.astral.ro ([193.230.240.30] helo=zerg.astral.ro)
				by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34)
				id 1Bkdtm-00043Q-SA; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:09:51 -0700
Received:			(from httpd@localhost) by ze
     
  • Claudine N. Kone—Que dieu vous bénisse
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.199; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:01:31 -0800
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<claudinenkoneci@jumpy.it>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
				by mta359.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:01:31 -0800
Received:			from outgoing1.jumpy.it ([213.215.144.9] helo=mail.jumpy.it)
				by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41)
				id 1CQ5ai-0002iR-Bi; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:01:31 -0800
Received:			from [196.201.71.182] by mail.jumpy.it with HTTP; Fri
     
  • Citbiank—Drae Ctiibank Mbmeer
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    I was not thinking I'd put too many more scams on my page here, but this one was so badly written that I just couldn't resist! I have no idea what the ? characters were; for sure, these are not supported by my system. Mozilla is saying it's Japanese...

     
  • Citibank Security Team—Multiple computers have attempted to log into your account
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Interesting... these people sent an email with two links one of which does not correspond at all to its label. I suppose most people do not notice these problems before clicking. And as usual, the emails includes URLs to non-secure pages (http instead of https) and the URLs start with numbers (the IP address here was: 81.113.212.146). Finally, that's the wrong URL for access to citibank. He! He! He!

    Also the HTML is quite bad. I left the closing body found at the beginning since I find that quite funny... He! He! He!

     
  • Mr.Ciakaru Umaru—RESPONDA DE MAS RAPIDA
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    From ciaka umaru Thu Sep 6 12:36:29 2007
X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.200; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:41:54 -0700
X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.246.162]
Return-Path:		<ciaka_umaru17@hotmail.fr>
Authentication-Results:	mta418.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=hotmail.fr; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:		from 65.54.246.162 (EHLO bay0-omc2-s26.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.162)
			by mta418.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:41:53 -0700
Received:		from BLU116-W27 ([10.6.19.62]) by bay0-omc2-s26.bay0.hotmail.com
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