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: 11/23/2014
This is going on and on with pretty much all the banks I ever heard of. Many with British banks now and my less global banks! It looks like the phishers are targeting smaller banks which certainly have much less money to spend on protecting their users from giving away their credentials. This scheme most certainly work. According to the numbers I have seen, 1 in 100 people will fall for it and these people lose US $800 on average. This is quite expensive!
Notice that this one is using an account of some sort at the University of Toronto for the fake page. The URL is really bad! But still, ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
Funny. He calls me "President/CEO". As a matter of fact, I'm. He! He!
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Last update: 10/31/2009
The following was one single email, funny, isn't it?!
From tony smith Sat Jan 6 00:15:34 2007
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.159; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:15:37 -0800
X-Originating-IP: [205.152.59.68]
Return-Path:
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Last update: 02/18/2012
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
id <SF9C1> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
from <promotiongames@voila.fr>; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:17:31 -0800
Received: from smtp1.voila.fr (smtp1.voila.fr [193.252.22.174])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0C526AD8B
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:21:59 -0800 (PST)
Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
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Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:21:51 +0100
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Last update: 10/31/2009
First time I see one like this! Look here, I tried to make a
transfer of $10 million somehow. And it looks like it did not
work because of some jerk intermediary or something. Or maybe
it could be because I do not have $10 million... Hmmm... I'll
have to ponder the question. This is complicated!
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Last update: 10/31/2009
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.113; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:35:55 -0800
Return-Path: <usman.bello1@voila.fr>
Received: from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
by mta281.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:35:53 -0800
Received: from smtp1.voila.fr ([193.252.22.174] helo=mwinf4003.voila.fr)
by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
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Received: from wwinf4001 (wwinf4001 [172.22.157.28])
by mwinf4003.voila.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP
id 81E4D180
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Last update: 02/19/2014
Return-Path: <vallery_dogbo@yahoo.fr>
X-Original-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com (colo [168.150.251.50])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14E81BDE4
for <alexis@halk.m2osw.com>; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.66])
by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 67DC426ACE9
for <alexis@m2osw.com>; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (qmail 69675 invoked by uid 60001); 12 ...
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Last update: 10/31/2009
The link under HERE below was like this (it was on one long line):
<a target="_blank"href="http://www.opaian.nl/data/.support/www.amazon.com/
flex/sign-out.html/2Fhomepage=protocol=httpsaction=sign-out/exec.php?cmd=sign-in">
Notice that the email looks really darn good otherwise! Well... beside a few
spaces missing and an unbeliviable story that is.
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Last update: 11/23/2014
X-Apparently-To: alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.195; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:55:35 -0700
Authentication-Results: mta251.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=virgilio.it; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [212.216.176.118]
Return-Path: <v_atlantic@virgilio.it>
Received: from 212.216.176.118 (EHLO vsmtp14.tin.it) (212.216.176.118)
by mta251.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:55:35 -0700
Received: from ims1d.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.101) by vsmtp14.tin.it (7.0.027) id 4227B87800E7F5EB
for alexis_wilke@yahoo.com; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:55:33 +0200
Received: from ...
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Last update: 11/23/2014
Return-Path: <memsvc@vacu.org>
X-Original-To: contact@halk.m2osw.com
Delivered-To: alexis@halk.m2osw.com
Received: from talarii.ru (mail.talarii.ru [62.141.67.91])
by halk.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF9F1BDDC
for <contact@halk.m2osw.com>; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
X-Spam-Flag: SKIP
X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona 1.5.2
Received: from [207.59.123.82] (account abuse HELO User)
by talarii.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.9)
with ESMTPA id 2000011; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:22:43 +0400
Reply-To: <no-reply@vacu.org>
From: "Customer ...
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