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: 10/31/2009
First time for everything! This is the first I see of its genre! 8-)
So they have an ATM card that I could use to withdraw the wooping
total of US $500,000. Cool! But of course, I'll have to send some
money to that delivery company, and probably some extra taxes and
fees for demurrage (i.e. for the freaking delay between the time
that idiot of Sule left the packet with that delivery company and
the time I contact that company!?)
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Last update: 11/23/2014
This looks like a scammer trying to get your login + password to some poker website (which I thought was illegal in the USA?! Probably a case of prohibition... he! he!) The idea is certainly to get your money and bye bye! (or lose it against a better player who's himself! then you'd have a real hard time to prove that you were stolen!!!)
I made the <a ...> tags visible instead of real links.
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Last update: 11/23/2014
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Last update: 10/31/2009
First time I see one like this! Look here, I tried to make a
transfer of $10 million somehow. And it looks like it did not
work because of some jerk intermediary or something. Or maybe
it could be because I do not have $10 million... Hmmm... I'll
have to ponder the question. This is complicated!
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Loterrie, avec tous les détails de ce que j'ai gagné!
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From: "alliance finance" <alliancefinance31@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: alliancefinance31@yahoo.fr
To: alexis@m2osw.com
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:21:06 +0000
Subject: VOUS AVEZ GAGNE...
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Last update: 07/06/2017
Isn't this one a weird offer?! I'm wondering what this Claire is trying to get to, but Omni Hotels have a standard URL: https://www.omnihotels.com/. You look at the list, there is an entry for the Omni in Montreal. Guess what... they do have a phone number and an address. Cool hey?! Doesn't that make this email even more suspicious? Claire Smith, okay, I have got it.
Because of the promise of helping to get through with immigration, I'm thinking that this scam is to gather information about people such as complete name, address, social security number, etc. Watch out!
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Last update: 11/01/2009
Bonjour... dans la signature. À mourrir de rire! 8-)
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Last update: 07/06/2017
Okay... I don't really read German that well, but this is really bad German, I can tell. But the point here is also the fact that the guy says he lives in Botswana. That is the richest African country because of its mines of Diamonds. He came to Europe for some time (in Belgium) and now he wants all your banking information. Well... why not! 8-)
This may change... but for 2006, the Botswana Ministry of Finance and Development Planning is showing a front picture with... a white female. Hmmm.... click on the different pages and all the images are like that. I wonder if they only tax people ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Cool subject! For once! You know, instead of "Supra-Urgent Email that you
HAVE to answer RIGHT NOW!" Well... Anyway... 8-)
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