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
  • Mr.David M.Asuka—IN CONFIDENCE
    Last update: 02/18/2012 
    Return-Path:		<dvzz1@hotmail.fr>
X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received:		from bay0-omc2-s39.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s39.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.175])
			by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CE41BDE5
			for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
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  • 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.)

     
  • Barclays Bank Customer Service—Update your records on or before 48 hours
    Last update: 10/31/2009

    Here there is a really good letter. I mean, really believable to my point of view, that is, if you have a Barclays bank account...

    Of course, the comment at the end that you have to act in 48h gave me the insight (he! he!). A bank would give you at least 30 days, if not 60, to remedy to such problems. And holding your funds is better than losing it to some phisher...

     
  • Barrister Leke—I've got my clients' money!
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.102; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:58:17 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk:		66.35.250.206
Return-Path:			<lekeomobude@indiatimes.com>
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  • James Bell, ESQ—[they] were involved in a car accident
    Last update: 10/31/2009 
    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.198; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 05:34:44 -0700
X-Originating-IP:		[66.35.250.206]
Return-Path:			<james_l_bell@jumpy.it>
Received:			from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
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Received:			from [80.88.139.231] by mail.jumpy.it
				with HTTP; Fri, 23 Jul
     
  • 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
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Message-ID:		<BAY21-F7800BF8C3B11B06416A419
     
  • 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>
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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
     
  • Frank Garry, Esq.—Mr. Edwin Gabriel made you a beneficiary to his WILL
    Last update: 10/01/2019

    I've seen a lot of things and I have to say that these scams have been evolving really fast in the last 2 or 3 years. At first, it was just something like my dad died (and you still get those), but this one is much different. This one is about a guy who put my name in his will. Imagine that. He dies, I get some money. Cool. US $1 million. And no phone call, no letter, no angry siblings, just an email. Hmmm... Is that a scam?!