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
Lately I have received many emails like this one. Beside the "there is absolutly
no content in that email...", the email has a link to a blog. I thought that was
weird. So I tried to see what that was about. The fact is that the link goes to
a .exe file. This one was specifically to a file named iloveyou.exe and obviously
nothing else in the page. So if I wanted to know what this is really about, I'd
need a Windows box to trash (really...
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Last update: 09/27/2013
I like this one. Her name is Anicette. In France we have an alcoholic drink called "Anicet" made with Anis. It's also called Pastis 51, the main brand selling that drink.
Return-Path: <anicette_koffi00o@yahoo.fr>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com (colo [168.150.251.50])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF461BDE2
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from web27510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web27510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ...
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Last update: 02/18/2012
He! He! Calvary greetings! She must be a horse rider. Lucky me! 8-)
Also, as many people do, instead of hitting Enter multiple times, Anita used the spacebar to align things properly. It certainly looks good on her computer...
Return-Path: <anita.tedbrown2000@hotmail.com>
X-Original-To: info@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com (colo [168.150.251.50])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0419D1BDE2
for <info@halk.m2osw.com>; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from
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Last update: 10/31/2009
From Ann Harrison Fri Jun 24 16:24:34 2005
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.199; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:20:22 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [66.18.69.6]
Return-Path: <annharrison@jmail.co.za>
Authentication-Results: mta313.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=jmail.co.za; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 66.18.69.6 (EHLO mail02.infosat.net) (66.18.69.6)
by mta313.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:20:22 -0700
Received: from [196.38.110.40] (HELO mail01.infosat.net)
by mail02.infosat.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP
id 272633
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Last update: 10/31/2009
With authorization from the author, I'm putting this email here
because I think it can make some people understand better why
scams, hoax, phishing, etc. work so well...
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S8754> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <chintapollo@netscape.net>; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:46:10 -0700
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (f234195.upc-f.chello.nl [80.56.234.195])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AB2526AD31
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:46:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Apollo Chint" <chintapollo@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 ...
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Last update: 07/06/2017
A funny one, not so much because of the email itself, but the guy just doesn't know how to write proper expressions. The grammar is otherwise mostly fine (well... it's a short one anyway).
Note that most (99%) of the sites sending you this kind of spam will claim that they are secure. A site is secure if (1) it has a currently valid certificate and (2) the pages where you pass your order [i.e. put your personal info such as your address, phone, credit card info] are secure. A secure page starts with https://... and when you enter these pages your browser doesn't warn you about the ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Hey! Never been in Africa, and even though some say they speak English, French or German, when they do they use many words the wrong way. But this one is funny: A Law Firm of Advocates...
Note that in French we translate Attorney as Avocat. So that's most certainly the French word poorly translated to English. Still quite funny! 8-)
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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!
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Last update: 10/31/2009
I like the name on this one 8-).
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