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
  • Dr Bello Usman.—I got your impressive information through internet directory.
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    Received:		from snap.turnwatcher.com
			by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
			id <S7C70> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
			from <bello_usman4455@hotmail.com>; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:21:48 -0700
Received:		from hotmail.com (bay21-f7.bay21.hotmail.com [65.54.233.96])
			by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABB926AD4F
			for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
Received:		from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
			Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:23:16 -0700
Message-ID:		<BAY21-F7800BF8C3B11B06416A419
     
  • Brigitte Gross—waht are you donig bbay — or Hi, Dear Family!
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Okay, I'll pass on the syntax in that email for now. It is obvious that people writing spam emails do it on purpose to swart tools such as my anti-spam software. Now, this is fine, it gives me a little more fun work to do.

     
  • Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks (Ms)—Help my family
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.193; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:24:51 -0700
X-YahooFilteredBulk:	66.35.250.206
X-Originating-IP:	[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:		<dicta@spray.se>
Received:		from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
			by mta143.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:24:51 -0700
Received:		from lmfilto03.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.217])
			by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
			id 1BeBIg-00080K-4m; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:24:50 -0700
Received:		from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
			by lmfilto03.st1.
     
  • Mr. Ben Jadi—Don't be sorry for me
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.200; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:01:44 -0700
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<benjadi_43@tiscali.co.uk>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
				by mta438.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:01:43 -0700
Received:			from mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.39])
				by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34)
				id 1BmVtZ-0006Ia-M6 for alexis_wilke@users.sourceforge.net; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:01:22 -0700
Received:			from mk-cpfront-4.mail.uk
     
  • Dr.Roland.Z. Bersson—I am member of Independent Committee of Eminent Persons
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    At the start

    First time I see a scam about the holocaust victimes and their bank accounts. Note that the person says he's a member of an organization in Switzerland and then says he's in America... Also I looked for a list of the ICEP members and I could not find any one under the name Roland Z. Bersson (Bresson? neither!) And the subject... the name of the guy. Ha! Good joke.

    Episode II

    I received another copy of this email today... and I noticed one other thing! The following sentence:

     
  • Billy Bangura—this transaction will attract 30% for the assist you are rendering
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    Received:	from postino174.com
		by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
		id <S789C> for <alexis@m2osw.com> from <dickdada@postino.it>;
		Fri, 2 Jun 2006 05:48:22 -0700
From:		Billy Bangura <dickdada@postino.it>
To:		alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To:	d_dada@postino.it
Subject:	CONFIDENTIAL!!
Date:		Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:49:04 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0
Content-Type:	multipart/mixed; boundary="d3c36a18-9c66-4ef3-8bfd-08f629630bec"

Dear sir,
CONFIDENTIAL
Compliment of the day!
With the good reference made of your esteemed personal/office by the chamber
of commerce here in
     
  • Dr. WILLIAMS BRUCE,—i can confide in you
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    I must obviously have been talking with this guy on the phone. I mean, you know, who would send me an email saying he talked with me about the 79,000 dollar bills all of $100 but the guy who talked to me on the phone?!

     
  • Aziz Mboup—Aziz veut être ton ami
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Okay, maintenant ça fait 2 fois que je reçois cette email. Donc je la liste. C'est évident que l'Aziz c'est une tête de turc dans tout ça! Ou plutôt, il n'existe pas!

    Tiens alors c'est tout en français et je suis pas inscris à facebox et le mec il habite en Espagne. Hé! J'suis en Californie la... Je vois pas trop la connection!?

    Bon, enfin... 10 millions de gens auraient rien d'autre a faire que d'aller sur FaceBox on dirait!

     
  • Aziz Aziz—This letter must come to you as a big surprise
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    I like the name on this one 8-).

     
  • Banca di Roma—GentileyClientey
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    These idiots make it so complicated on themselves so as to make sure that the anti-spam do not stop their emails that I cannot even read them (not like I read Italian much, but I can tell the difference between a 80 characters words and Italian, somehow.)