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:
-
Your bank account,
-
Your address — or any valid address if that matter,
-
Your family, and
-
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!
|
Latest Scams |
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
Funny, this one is in English and French! Well... except the French must have
been translated from the English using some robot. So it's unreadable. 8-)
FROM:M. JACOB CISSE
Abidjan Cote d' ivoire
Dearest repectfull one
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
Return-Path: <wiredept@earthlink.net>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net
[209.86.89.62]) by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D451BDCC
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:26:01 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net;
b=b93MGq/pKsmCvk9R3ijVkUgFQXln+ATYEWdrw98IWpeYpWhjOyAWSK41KnwUESmO;
h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:
Content-Transfe
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
Okay... Rien de vraiment spécial avec celui-ci. On a déjà vu ça avant. Mais dit dont!!! Que c'est long!!! Et j'ai pas tout lu parce que vraiment la c'est trop long...
J'ai vu quand même qu'il parle de son "feu" (faux) père adoptif, ce qui est assez rigolo. Amusez-vous bien!
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
The funny part in this one is at the end. Looks like one of these photocopies
where the original did not get place properly so we cannot read the edges...
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
I like the "To:" field... don't you?!
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
Return-Path: <r@altecnet.gr>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from mail.m2osw.com (jcolo [69.55.238.181])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F57B1BDCC
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:12:30 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from iridium9.acn.gr (iridium9.acn.gr [213.5.41.18])
(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by mail.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140D7678408A
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:12:28 -0700 (PDT)
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <S8D7C> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <RUFUSZUMA@K.RO>; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:13:12 -0700
Received: from K1156.com (host81-154-179-110.range81-154.btcentralplus.com [81.154.179.110])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 80F2B26ADA2
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: RUFUS ZUMA <RUFUSZUMA@K.RO>
To: alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To: RUFUSZUMA@KATAMAIL.COM
Subject: Private and Confidential
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.86.235; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:01:35 -0700
Return-Path: <sanchuss@702mail.co.za>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta118.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:01:35 -0700
Received: from mailout03.infosat.net ([66.18.69.3] helo=mail02.infosat.net)
by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
id 1BCzC2-0006lm-TK; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:01:35 -0700
Received: from [196.38.110.29] (HELO mail01.infosat.net)
by mail02.infosat.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP
-
Last update: 10/31/2009
The funny part in this one is at the end. Looks like one of these photocopies
where the original did not get place properly so we cannot read the edges...
-
Last update: 11/24/2014
These days I receive a lot of PDF files. In general I just delete them. Some ISPs decided to just kick them out (not too good for Adobe!) The problem is that all of these PDF are only about buying some shares in some company to supposedly make some money. I've looked at a few of these schemes and did not really see much movement on most of these actions. This certainly means that people don't invest just because they receive an email. Yet, it must work at times because otherwise scammer would not continue to scam with that scheme. And instead of reducing it, it grows! Maybe we should ...
|
