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

 

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  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    Return-Path:		<davidrichd@yahoo.de>
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    Message-ID:		<A33D9E7D.097A602@yahoo.de>
    Date:			Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:47:49 -0400
    Reply-To:		"David Richard" <davidrichd@yahoo.de>
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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 ...

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    It looks like this is improving. Thought this is still a scam, contrary to the usual, this one is pretty well written. That's too bad because I just cannot write jokes about it... 8-)

     
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    From:		Yaya Diouf <yaya@diouf-help.la>
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    Subject:	Respect Fully From Mr Yaya Diouf & Sister
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    Dear ,
    I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Côte d'Ivoire. My sources

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    Okay! There is currently a wave of Diplomi, Degrees, etcetera that you can purchase. This is a mostly legal piece of paper which says that you are capable of doing these things that you say you can do in your Curriculum Vitae.

    Now, of course, you would think that if you are to get a diploma from any institution, they will be academic. When I read that word, academic, it sounds to me that if I talk to them, I will be talking to people who know how to read and write, and this at a higher level than average.

     
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