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
What's your level of confidence for buying stock these days?
Good or high? Hey! How about buying stock in Nigeria?
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Last update: 11/01/2009
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Ha! Never heard of a Microsoft Sweepstakes. Maybe that's because I don't follow the market enough?! Anyway, this one, I thought was funny because it appeared as all underlined. They actually used <STRONG> all over the place which in general appears bold in a browser. Still. Everything in bold. Imagine that! 8-)
Okay... so it's all in bold, but look at it closer. That's in the U.K.!? And he has an email address... in the U.K. alright! But look at that!!! That's at Yahoo! Maybe the bad guy should learn that Microsoft owns microsoft.com and that they use it for their
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Last update: 11/24/2014
 This email, I received a few times (293 - 276 = 17). The image on the right shows my mailbox. I use Pine which is good because Thunderbird has a hardtime when the To: field is composed of several thousand email addresses (2809 to be precise!). In that regard, I am mentioned twice in that list (which I do not show since I do not want people's email to be published on my site!) What is surprising is that I received the email 17 times which is not a multiple of 2. Well... maybe each instance had a different count and email address! (the first email address looked alike in all instances ...
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Last update: 11/24/2014
I wanted to put a warning out in regard to these OEM Software people because recently they improved their websites. It looks really nice. That is, really professional. I could very well understand that some people would fall for it.
Do not forget to read my Help Page in how to determine that a company is fake. And if they do put a street address, make sure it's in your country. Whether or not it is, just be really sure that this is really a legal business (even so, some legal business are doing illegal sales...)
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Last update: 07/06/2017
Hey! This is Santa Claus! 8-)))) Ho! No! Sorry... Santi Carlos! Hmmmmm...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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Last update: 02/18/2012
This is scary... Look at the white text in the bill: "Someone has sent you up to $1,500.00!!!". Beside the fact that this is not proper English, but well... It is past so I already received the money, but they do not know how much and if you want you can CLICK HERE to get to the place to get that money that "Someone" (a bank) has sent you already (in your dream, I guess.) Okay good. What am I going to do with $1,500 that I have to pay back? I have a bit more advance on my credit card and my balance is... $0. I think I do not need to work to pay the banks. Well... The ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
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