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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I thought I'd put this one because it looks pretty good. That is, it really looks like the bank talking to you. Thought a bank is very unlikely going to send you an email which is just one single image and of course event less an email which asks you for all your personal information since they already have them.
Since this is an image, it is easy for it to show a correct URL. Of course, it would send you to another server, not the bank's.
Of course, since I live in California and the bank does not opperate here, I don't have an account with them anyway...
Note: I added the ...
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X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.202; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:38:14 -0800
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From: Florince <florincemaitama@netscape.net>
To: alexis@m2osw.com
Reply-To: maitama_maitama@yahoo.com
Subject: URGENT REPLY
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:02:32 +0200
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Dear Friend
Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
His richest blessings shal
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La Reine Franca. Moui... Au Canada, on a des reines?
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Good one! I'm his Dear Partner and he has to present himself
to me in details because I think I actually don't know my Dear Partner...
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This one is really funny just because it is so badly writte.
«fill free to delete this email, it is of the ultmost importance»
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This is interesting, an italian company supposedly looking for
resellers. It looks to me as if the company was legitimate, but
not this email. That is, this email seems to be a scammer who
pretends that he's working as the Secretary of that Mondoffice
company, but has nothing to do with it. Rather, he would want
to sell drugs or something like that and needs your help. Hey!
Wanna answer the guy? He emailed from a Hotmail account and
asks you to reply to a Yahoo! account... hmmm.... Ha! And it
wasn't really hotmail by the way since the sender used some
open relay to send the mail.
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Today, someone sent me an email about Hendricks. Nice name for
a Sergeant, I guess...
Hi Alexis,
I came across your site while researching Sgt Hendricks.
I notice you have nothing up on Saddam's millions scam.
I have enclosed on of his original posts and his last
email to me asking for my personal address and phone
number etc.
regards,
xxxxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx
West Australia
Hello My Dear
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