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: 10/31/2009
    From odi benson Tue May 2 17:34:10 2006
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.39.158; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:35:16 -0700
    X-Originating-IP:	[64.4.54.106]
    Return-Path:		<ogaderson@hotmail.com>
    Authentication-Results:	mta263.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    Return-Path:		<wiredept@earthlink.net>
    X-Original-To:		alexis@halk.m2osw.com
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009
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    			from <ooluwashino@yahoo.com>; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:15:17 -0700
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  • Last update: 07/06/2017

    Isn't this one a weird offer?! I'm wondering what this Claire is trying to get to, but Omni Hotels have a standard URL: https://www.omnihotels.com/. You look at the list, there is an entry for the Omni in Montreal. Guess what... they do have a phone number and an address. Cool hey?! Doesn't that make this email even more suspicious? Claire Smith, okay, I have got it.

    Because of the promise of helping to get through with immigration, I'm thinking that this scam is to gather information about people such as complete name, address, social security number, etc. Watch out!


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    He! He! I liked the subject of this one!

     
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    Interesing... Mr Parker is looking for me (believing that you will never let me down) but he sent the email to: undisclosed-recipients:;...

     
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    X-Apparently-To:		alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 66.218.93.113; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:01:45 -0700
    Return-Path:			<pauleik@mail3000.com>
    Received:			from 216.112.86.17 (EHLO mail3000.com) (216.112.86.17)
    				by mta147.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:01:41 -0700
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009

    You've got to love them! Read the 1st paragraph. Way cool! He's not a bad guy at all...

     
  • Last update: 10/31/2009
    From princess pauline Tue Jan 8 13:31:01 2008
    X-Apparently-To:	alexis_wilke@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.194; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:34:56 -0800
    X-Originating-IP:	[65.54.246.88]
    Return-Path:		<princess_pauline026@hotmail.com>
    Authentication-Results:	mta243.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=hotmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
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  • Last update: 10/31/2009
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    First time for everything! Look at that, this is bad, I'm going to have an invoice that says "Live Strip Chat Camera Sexy Girls". How am I going to explain that one to my wife?! Or maybe I won't click on the fake link? Because http://mail.gsasurveying.com/login/ has probably nothing to do with PayPal, right?