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: 11/01/2009

    Hey! No more surprise by such emails?!

    Received:		from Safe-mail2280.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
    			id  for 

    From: The Desk of Mr. Jenkins Duba
    email:jenkins_dunbar001@Safe-mail.net
    Chief Superintendent (Strong Room Storage) Dept.
    Diplomatic Union of West African States Securities Ltd.
    The Gambia-West Africa Delivery Area.

     

    Attn: Sir/Madam,

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    From manush abu Thu Apr 5 10:22:30 2007
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.193; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:31:15 -0700
    X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.246.110]
    Return-Path:		<manush_abu32@hotmail.com>
    Authentication-Results:	mta153.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
    Received:		from 65.54.246.110 (EHLO bay0-omc1-s38.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.110) by mta153.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:31:08 -0700
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    Return-Path:		<apache@ns1.truemesh.com>
    X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
    Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
    Received:		from ns1.truemesh.com (ns1.truemesh.com [216.127.66.98])
    			by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D43AF7CA
    			for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Wed,  6 Aug 2008 19:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
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    To:			alexis@halk.m2osw.com
    Subject:		BARRISTER MARK COLE
    From:			Mr.Mark Cole <markcole123@sify.com>
    Reply-To:		markcole_44@yahoo.com.hk
    MIME-Version:		
     
  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    Voilà tout à propos du doudou...

     
  • Last update: 07/06/2017

    "Dans l'espoir de vous relire" -- si vous n'êtes pas français vous ne comprendrez pas forcement la subtilité de cette phrase. Mariam me dit qu'il va vérifier mon email (en général, relire veut dire vérifier que tout est bien écrit...)

    Bon, je suis comptant, elle a prié et pouf! j'ai été choisi. Merci le petit bon dieu!

    Ha! Oui, aussi l'email m'est arrivée en 32 exemplaires...


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  • Last update: 08/13/2017

    This is another lottery scam email stuff... If I'm putting it here it's because this one includes a website which has a reference to a company in the U.K. A false one, that is, that company doesn't exist. How can you know?! Easy! You go here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house and click on WebCHeck (Free company information). In there you put the name of the company:

    Or contact us at our office:

    The Lotter Limited
    29 Harley Street
    London W1G 9QR
    UNITED KINGDOM


    Fax: 020 7637 0419

    and you will notice that it doesn't appear in the ...

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.198; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:46:50 -0700
    Return-Path:			<ml803311@yahoo.co.uk>
    Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
    				by mta305.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:46:50 -0700
    Received:			from web25101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.10.49])
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    				id 1BXhrX-000154-Ro for alexis_wilke@users.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:46:04 -0700
    Message-ID:			<20040608144553.58408.qmail@web25101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
    Received:
     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.107; 31 May 2003 11:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
    Return-Path:		<macokoh11@netscape.net>
    Received:		from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
    			by mta129.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 May 2003 11:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
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    			id 19MBUP-0004l2-00 for <alexis_wilke@users.sourceforge.net>; Sat, 31 May 2003 11:54:05 -0700
    From:			"Mr.
     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    Alright! So we've seen it all, hey?!
    Now this one is interesting.
    "[...] starts recruiting employees [...]"
    So this means I will have a W2 and I will get paid to check out stuff for businesses that do not make any money yet since they are doing research to know whether what I'm checking out is worth selling.


     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    He! He! Good one. It was sent to "undisclosed-recipients:;" so how am I supposed to verify my email address? How! Simply because I received the email. Okay. That sounds good.