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
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.201; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:22:59 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <diamondlottria@pnetmail.co.za>
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Ein email aus Deutsch! Okay, I'll stop there with my German...
Now the interesting thing here is that the Umlaut start only
later in the email. Well... maybe all the words before don't
need any. Notice also that this is in German, sent from
voila.fr and in regard to a Spanish lottery. I think I won,
again!
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Last update: 02/18/2012
* I think I meant to say: "I don't think I'm talking your language..." or was I?
Okay! I'm a geek and in 2006 I'm still using pine to read my emails. So what? Well... some co[s]mic people write emails for HTML display only and the result in pine is quite funny so I thought I'd share my view. 8-)
Below you will see the HTML used to generate such gibberish and how the spammer intended me to see the email.
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:52:55 -0700
From: Mahmood Frye <frye@cmsrtp.com>
To: info@m2osw.com
Subject: Re: pexit refnnce
Parts/Attachments:
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Not too sure how to handle that one! I received this email today (Aug 21, 2008) and it says that the EFCC, a Nigerian body created to catch fraudsters, talked to me before and needs info about a certain guy whose name is not in existance, etc.
The interesting part is that they used what looks like the EFCC website, links, email addresses... In other words, it looks like it is coming straight from the EFCC. So I'm not too sure why he talks to me as if we had communicated before. I mentioned the EFCC on my Help Me! page...
So... maybe
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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: 11/20/2014
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.161; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:27:53 -0800
X-Originating-IP: [65.54.233.114]
Return-Path: <salifd13@hotmail.com>
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.196; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:40:48 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [66.35.250.206]
Return-Path: <somla11@virgilio.it>
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Got a picture from that one. Whether it's him, dunno... trying to get another picture now... See my 2nd reply below. 8-)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:20:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Alexis Wilke <alexis@m2osw.com>
To: cahill_mike3@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: Urgent Response
In-Reply-To: <trPJBjmnwt$41.208.139.44$.47b8c181.af9db.56b0.50586@oxygen.onspeed.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802182220030.11638@halk.m2osw.com>
References: <trPJBjmnwt$41.208.139.44$.47b8c181.af9db.56b0.50586@oxygen.onspeed.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; ...
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Last update: 02/18/2012
No wonder that this is top secret stuff! It includes DOLLERS, no really, 'E', not 'A'. It's a top secret currency anyway. That's why you did not hear about it. The main problem is, because it is top secret, you cannot use that money for anything... And please, don't tell anybody! 8-)
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Last update: 02/18/2012
At last one guy says it upfront: you'll have to pay a fee. That's all that will happen, but hey... he's telling you that you will have to spend some money to get what he's telling you that you will get. And he repeats it three times. Just in case it wasn't clear the first time.
But of course, the best is: AND YOU MOVE TO YOUR BANK. Welcome to your new safe, hope it's large enough for you...
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