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: 09/03/2009
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Last update: 08/13/2017
This one simply has a funny name 8-).
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Last update: 02/18/2014
Wow! Good one... This email starts saying: "I know you'll be surprised by this email since you don't know me..." and then it says: "Thank you for contacting me earlier". Maybe I don't understand French too well anymore!
Ho! Yeah! By the way, this is the widow of the former Philippians minister of finance. Okay, that's fine with me, after all she has the right to be. What I find a bit odd for a Philippians is that she speaks perfect French!!! Okay, just kidding, that's not perfect French, but still pretty good. That is, maybe they learn French in ...
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Usually viruses are included in your email and they are easy to detect (for people such as me at least...) with stuff such as: Open the attached document, that's URGENT, from someone you never ever heard of ever.
This one, of course, I never heard of the sender either, but the difference here is that the "hacker" is asking you to click on a link which will download an executable (for Windows, again, won't work under my Linux box, do you have a Linux box too? That's already 99% protection against these attacks!)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
If I put this one on it's because of the subject. I find it sad
that crooks use sentences which pertain to people in peril of
death.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
I suppose I'd have to pay him loads of money for -450Kg of gold...
(yes, see the minus sign?!, I know, it's part of the :- and not
really the number, but, sorry, it just looks too silly here.)
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Last update: 10/31/2009
You've got to love them! Read the 1st paragraph. Way cool! He's
not a bad guy at all...
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Celui-la c'est interessant. Il nous envoie un PDF qui contient des images de gens qui ont gagné. En fait, en y regardant de près, c'est assez croyable. Encore que... mais bon. En comparison à un simple email.
Mr. Martin Lessart
Friday, September 19, 2008 6:08 AM
From Mr._Martin_Lessart Fri Sep 19 06:08:05 2008
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