Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I just received an email from my old friend Alex and man has he come up in the world.
His dad, Boga, certainly hit pay dirt at some stage given that Alex now has $9.5mill to play with. Knowing what that country was like he’s paid out more than that in bribes to be able to do what he’s obviously completed to amass that sorta money..
Problem is I’m not able to take up his offer so if anyone out there is interested just drop me a line and I’ll send you his details.
From Alex Dandy.
Abidjan Cote d’ Ivoire
Wes Africa.
Hello Dear One
Respectful Greetings and How are youtoday,I am Master Alex Dandy the only Son of chief Boga Dandy.
I would like you to permit me to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint relationship and business with you in your country. I have a substantial capital I honourably Inherited from my late father late Chief Boga Dandy who was minister of Interior and deal in Cocao and coffee platation and share from family Gold, diamond Minining site.The Epmigo rebels killed Him recently in poltical crisis in our country that have resulted to war since this past two years. I intend to invest this fund in profitable areas in your country into a very lucratives business venture of which you are to advise and execute the said venture over there for the mutual benefits of both of us .
Most especially is for you to help me come over to your base if possible for You be able co-operate with me to become my business partner in your country and create ideas on how money will be invested, properly managed and the type of investment after the money is transferred to your custody with your assistance. I inherited this sum from my late father whom the rebels killed because he was not supporting their selfish intrest to topple the president Gbagbo the present president. Meanwhile, on indication of your willingness to handle this transaction sincerely by protecting my Interests and upon your acceptance of this proposal.
I would furnish you with the full detailed information, procedure, amount involve is below and we shall mutually agree on your percentage interest or share holding for helping me to secure the release of the deposit and investing the fund into a lucratives profitable venture in your care.It is The sum of Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand $9.500.000USD I shall be glad to reserve this respect and opportunity for you, if you so desire, but do urge you to give the matter your immediate attention it deserves.I want you to be rest assured that everything is in order and legitimate it was due to the political crisis in our country that have resulted to war which cause everybody to find a way to get out the country, that make’s me to use this medium to request for your assistance hoping that you will not let me down.
This fund is legitimately acquired by my late father from sales of cocoa and coffee and diamond dealings.Looking forward to your prompt response
Faithfully
Alex Dandy
Google filters must be slack cos this came through on a Gmail account tagged as a real email.
Upon checking my Gmail account spam filter I take it that the medical profession has moved bigtime to online product promotion. With 1700 items of spam 1595 were from friends of my GP, he must have forwarded my address to them. Pity I don’t have time to read how they can achieve such wonderful outcomes relating to specific body parts.
ACTION: Have a good laugh and move right along. Apply Strategy 2 and you won’t get this diatribe.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I know the likes of Blogger/Blogspot can’t control what the hordes of people actually "do" with their blogs but in the last two days our spam attractive email ahs received hundreds of these types of emails.
Given that Google filters heaps of emails for many people it would seem trange that some form of trackback system wasn’t in place to remove these recalcitrant sites from their network. May be I’m expecting too much <grin>
They all lead to blogname.blogspot.com (url removed)
Here’s one of 20 I received last night
Real men! Millionss of people acrosss the world have already tested THIS and ARE making their girrlfriends feel brand new sexual sennsations! YOU are the best in bed, aren’t you ?
Girls! Develoop your sexual relattionship and get even MORE ppleasure! Make your boyfrriend a gift!
http://blogname.blogspot.com
And slowly, word by word, she managed to convey remember
his name in connection with the policecourt kindled, and,
like the lights of saint elmo in to safety. The girl turned
toward barney with that he continued in secret intent upon
the chronicle the showers of bullets flying round him, he
remained members. But though this was one of the crimes
to mrs. Westlake her dislike for aunt bessie, girl. I know
all her family very honest and superior. Down altogether.
already she felt weak. The strain attention to himself in
the box, he dragged it to date But i didn’t fancy doing
that sort of cavate lodges occurdimensions of ancient pueblosdoorways
one else will touch it while she has got it. But coming
from the hot glare the august sunshine.
What happens when you click on the link?
You get to go to the blogspot address with an auto forward to the spammer/scammer site.
ACTION: Apply strategies 2 and 3 and you won’t get these sorts of things
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I know the likes of Blogger/Blogspot can’t control what the hordes of people actually "do" with their blogs but in the last two days our spam attractive email ahs received hundreds of these types of emails.
Given that Google filters heaps of emails for many people it would seem trange that some form of trackback system wasn’t in place to remove these recalcitrant sites from their network. May be I’m expecting too much <grin>
They all lead to blogname.blogspot.com (url removed)
Here’s one of 20 I received last night
Real men! Millionss of people acrosss the world have already tested THIS and ARE making their girrlfriends feel brand new sexual sennsations! YOU are the best in bed, aren’t you ?
Girls! Develoop your sexual relattionship and get even MORE ppleasure! Make your boyfrriend a gift!
http://blogname.blogspot.com
And slowly, word by word, she managed to convey remember
his name in connection with the policecourt kindled, and,
like the lights of saint elmo in to safety. The girl turned
toward barney with that he continued in secret intent upon
the chronicle the showers of bullets flying round him, he
remained members. But though this was one of the crimes
to mrs. Westlake her dislike for aunt bessie, girl. I know
all her family very honest and superior. Down altogether.
already she felt weak. The strain attention to himself in
the box, he dragged it to date But i didn’t fancy doing
that sort of cavate lodges occurdimensions of ancient pueblosdoorways
one else will touch it while she has got it. But coming
from the hot glare the august sunshine.
What happens when you click on the link?
You get to go to the blogspot address with an auto forward to the spammer/scammer site.
ACTION: Apply strategies 2 and 3 and you won’t get these sotrst of things
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The spammers shoving out the Paypal Phishing emails have now got a system whereby immediately a legitimate email comes from Paypal their system cranks into gear.
A legitimate email appeared from Paypal (PayPal Business Newsletter Feb 08) and about 2 seconds later the phishing email appeared in my spam attractive email.
Subject: PayPal - Please restore your account access
Dear PayPal Customer,
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.
Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.
Case ID Number: PP-xxx-xxx-xxx
For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
Failure to verify and/or update your personal records, or if you choose to ignore our request, may result in further limitations or eventual account closure.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the header of any page.
To modify your notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile sub-tab, then click the Notifications link under Account Information. Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. For more information about the security of your information, read our Privacy Policy at https://www.paypal.com/privacy.
Copyright © 2008 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.
ACTION: Remember Paypal won’t send you such an email.
If you think it’s legitimate then don’t click the link go direct to Paypal site and proceed from there. The same with your bank or credit card company as well
Apply Spam Strategy 3 and you never need worry about these emails.
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
It never ceases to amaze me that emails such as the one below get responded to. Some people must leave their brain in neutral or are so gullible to think that this is for real.
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner contact Mr Charles McCoy.Via Email:( Hotmail address ) for claim
No recipient
The Camelot Group UK, organizers of The National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program held on the 15th February 2008.
Your email account has been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of One Million Two Hundred and Thirty Thousand Three Hundred and Ten Great Britain pounds Pounds Sterling ( £ 1.230,310 pounds sterlings ).
Please contact your Claims Agent, from the Oversea Winners Processing Department: Mr Charles McCoy. Via email address
For More Information Tel:+44-704-573-6915.
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM *************************************** 1.FULL NAMES:_________ 2.ADDRESS:____________ 3.CITY:_____________ 4.STATE:___________ 5.POSTCODE:______________ 6.COUNTRY: ______________7.SEX:____________________8.AGE: 9.OCCUPATION:__________ 10.TELEPHONE NUMBER:________________ CHOOSE YOUR CLAIM OPTION ( 1 ) courier delivery ( 2 ) Bank Transfer Sincerely, Mr.James Irvin. Online Coordinator,CAMELOT GROUP,operator of National Lottery. @ Hotmail
Alerts:
- Contact a Hotmail address for a supposedly serious Lottery organisation
- No recipient on the received email
- Yet another Hotmail address
- Spelling errors - ( £ 1.230,310 pounds sterlings ).
- Do lotteries give away funds to people who haven’t bought a ticket and draw their name from an auto generated email address creator? NO!
ACTION: Adopt strategy 3 and get these sort of emails out of your life.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
A recent spate of phisihing is targeting Aussie Taxpayers promising a tax refund by collecting creit card and personal information from a fake website.
While the spam message is poorly worded — signed at the bottom "Regards, Australian Government" — the fake site used to capture would-be victims’ credit card details is almost identical to the Tax Office Site
The input fields ask for the intended victim’s credit card number, expiration date and the CVV code — the three-digit security code used to authenticate transactions where the cardholder is not present — as well as secondary identifiers such as birth date, home address and mother’s maiden name.
No matter what technology solution is created to deal with scams, the scammers will always outhink them.
ACTION: Your Bank, your Credit Card provider, the Tax Office will not send you an email relating to any matter such as this. If you think they are then go direct to their site don’t follow a link from such an email.
Adopting Strategies 3 and 5 will cause this issue to be a non event
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
If you’re a member of Facebook you probably already know about this but even so it deserves a reminder.
One of your friends sends you an invite to an application, which when added presents you with a page encouraging you to "invite x amount of friends" to use the application fully or simply gives you no other option but to send invites.
It’s a pretty low effort to try and get a an application to become popular and finally Facebook administrators have been draged into seeing this for what it is.
Facebook platform policy has undergone an update to include specifics on what various applications can and can’t do with regards to forcing invites to play their game.
As per usual many of the developers of such applications haven’t bothered to take notice and consequently Facebook recently sent out a mailing to all offending developers informing them of a temporary restriction on invites for their application, whilst reiterating the updated policy.
ACTION: Protect yoursel if you insist in using the social networking sites. Apply strategies 3 and 4 and you can be assured of keeping unwanted emails at bay
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Given I don’t drink Coke … this is a classic
Coca-Cola Online Promotion
Reg Order No: ECL/68276/07
United Kingdom.
NEW YEAR WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded New year draws held by Coca-Cola company United Kingdom.Your E-mail was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £500,000.00{Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds} each in the Coca-ColaCompany 2007 online Promo.
Your E-mail was attached to Ref number (7PWYZ2007) and Ballot number (BT:12052007/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of E-mail addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No Tickets were sold but all e-mail addresses were assigned to different Ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact your claims Agent and provide him with the following information as stated below,so we can proceed with the verification and clearance process of your file.
Details Requested went here
claims Agent; Mr. Terry Barnes.
Email: @hotmail.com
@coca-colaonline.company.org.uk
………………………………………………..
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Anne Campbell.
Online Co-ordinator,
Management.
Tel: +44-704-575-1806
Action: Don’t let greed get you sucked into giving away your details. No different to the Nigerian Scam in some ways
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
I am having a BIG problem with a specific drug company sending email using my domain addresses. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to stop it?
I have changed my addresses several times and these spammers still manage to find the new addresses.
Sound familiar?
I see this all too often on forums and the sense of frustration coming through the various responses is most disheartening.
ACTION: Ensure your hosting service has security under control. The extra couple of $$ you save is not worth the grief.
Apply Strategies 3-5 as a way of eliminating the worry about spammers abusing your live addresses.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
I am having a BIG problem with a specific drug company sending email using my domain addresses. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to stop it?
I have changed my addresses several times and these spammers still manage to find the new addresses.
Sound familiar?
I see this all too often on forums and the sense of frustration coming through the various responses is most disheartening.
ACTION: Ensure your hosting service has security under control. The extra couple of $$ you save is not worth the grief.
Apply Strategies 3-5 as a way of eliminating the worry about spammers abusing your live addresses.
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