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

 

Latest Scams
  • Last update: 07/06/2017
    From ibrahim h Wed Mar 7 02:54:28 2007
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.195;
    			Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:54:55 -0800
    X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.246.201]
    Return-Path:		<ibrahim_h032@hotmail.com>
    Authentication-Results:	mta241.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
    Received:		from 65.54.246.201 (EHLO bay0-omc3-s1.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.201)
    			by mta241.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:54:47 -0800
    Received:		from hotmail.com ([65.54.168.13]) by bay0-omc3-s1.bay0.hotmail.com
    			with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); ...
     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    Return-Path:		<info@atm.org>
    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 6287D1BDAB;
    			Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
    Received:		from mmusr.com (www.messagemarketer.com [212.58.11.192])
    			by mail.m2osw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439276784108
    			for <contact@m2osw.com>; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
    Received:		from User [78.138.8.2] by mmusr.com with ESMTP
    			(SMTPD32-8.15) id A6C414200DA; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:44:20 +0300
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  • Last update: 01/14/2015

    I found this one quite interesting. This is quite similar to the little problem which happened in the US a few years later: ENRON was covered with debts just like Deawood. Now this email is interesting since it talks about money from a bad guy who wants to invest it in other countries under your name since his name is kinda... in the bad press right now.


    Received:			from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server]
    				id <S93CF> for <@mail.m2osw.com:alexis@halk.m2osw.com>
    				from <secretry_privateproject@virgilio.it>; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:28:15 ...
     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.193; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:09:16 -0700
    Authentication-Results:	mta121.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
    X-Originating-IP:	[66.35.250.206]
    Return-Path:		<larykamokai1@hotmail.com>
    Received:		from 66.35.250.206 (EHLO sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) (66.35.250.206)
    			by mta121.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:09:16 -0700
    Received:		from bay10-f42.bay10.hotmail.com ([64.4.37.42] helo=hotmail.com) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net
    			with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DPKNm-0001lt-IQ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 
     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    Have you been on that island before? Ready to invest right now? Good! I think this guy needs the money.

     
  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    There you go. A little more it could have been my governor...

     
  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    I don't read Spanish enough to comment much, but hey...

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    Alright, so many errors! First of all, Yahoo! is more likely to send you an HTML email for such a thing. Plus, they would never ask you to send them a password by email, what for?! Not only that, they have a brand and that's Yahoo! with an exclamation mark at the end. And of course, the funniest part is certainly the fact that the person used a verizon.net email address. I'm sure a lot of Yahoo! personnel uses verizon email addresses to talk to Yahoo! users! 8-)

     
  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    See for an answer below. Ho yeah!

     
  • Last update: 11/01/2009

    dudit dudit... 8-)