Hoax emails and funny spam

Good idea to create just one on going thread for the spam. I think I got that email too :-D I rarely check my (real) email anymore since I get it all though my phone so spam is already filtered away.

 

This will be good for me, mostly because I never think to check my spam folder and sometimes miss mail I should've gotten. Here's today's contribution:

If only I had $500 for this fabulous Rolex knockoff I would never need to worry about eternal damnation again!

 

My friend used to get $15 Movado knockoff in Tijuana. When someone would remark, he would remove the watch and say "Do you want it?" The other person would light up and gush.... He used to buy 5 or 6 at a trip.

 

I've been reading about a new type of social engineering attack people have been calling ransomware.

Essentially, the attacker detects shadier traffic coming from your network (ie. porn, or P2P), and uses the info to try to extort money out of you.

Seems like a shocking, and probably effective new technique at tricking users, so I thought I'd share the info.

 

That's good info, Mada... however, if your gonna do shady things on the net.. your gonna have to pay the price eventually :-D

 

Seems to me I read of a case where a man was setting up a meeting through one of those sex/dating sites. When he showed up at the hotel another man handed him a package of the exchanged, lurid messages and demanded $10K. But this could well be an urban legend.

 

I am constantly amazed by the lengths some people will go to scam people . . . and the seemingly never ending line of suckers that fall for the scams.

The increase in the "black-mail" set-up type attack is a disturbing new trend, indeed.

This is true. Never do anything on the internet (or anywhere else, for that matter) that you wouldn't want to explain to your wife (or kids, mother, husband, etc.).

"I was doing research" only works at best once . . . and is more believable if it involves something more then just perky, slightly rubenesque brunette and red haired women . . . :-o

 

rolleyes

I'd forgotten about the "scare/warning" email genre . . . and I'd not seen that one yet, Digitalocksmith . . . :-D

What a hoot . . .

 

My LUCKY Day!!

Dear lucky winner,

This is to inform you that your email has won a consolation prize of the
Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW Today. Your email has won you £700,000.00
(Seven Hundred Thousand Great british Pounds) To claim your prize, please
contact your fiduciary agent Barr. Edward Clark, Esq with your Batch
#:408878E and Reference No:FL/668532011 and contact him via email:
barr_edwardclarkesq.uk@live.com immediately within 24hrs.with the
information below.

Barr. Edward Clark, Esq
Email: barr_edwardclarkesq.uk@live.com
Tel; +44 70111 72481
Fax: +44 70929 83657

You are to send the below required details;

1.Full Name:..............
2.Address:................
3..Occupation :..............`
4.Age:..............
5.Sex:.................
6.Tel:..............

Sincerely,
Mrs. Anita Lopez
Head Customercare Service
Microsoft Promotion.

And don't tell me this isn't legit, it came from Microsoft! :-D:-D:-D

 

I found this in the spam today...thought it was toooooo funny not to share :-D

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/6449/sillyf.jpg

Is that were my chicken dinner went? :confused :-D

 

And here's the really good news!


700,000.00 GBP = 1,044,987.62 USD!!!!



So you're all invited to my place, I'll pay ALL costs, we'll have a HUGE bash,


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Have a day full of this;

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http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/20.gif

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Until we are http://bestsmileys.com/puking/2.gif
http://bestsmileys.com/puking/3.gif http://bestsmileys.com/puking/3.gif



drunk!

Then I'll go get the http://bestsmileys.com/money/2.gif to pay it all off!! :-D:-D:-D


Emailing E-Tickets in minutes!! :wave:wave:wave:wave

 

I'm there,brandy.

Happy days are here again.(until you wake up).

 

From Miss Edvige Coulibaly
From Cote d'Ivoire
Abidjan West Africa
U can reach me in this Email:edvige_cou210@live.fr

Hello Dear,

My name is Miss Edvige Coulibaly I hope this mail finds you well &
healthy and i hope we can established a relationship since we are
meeting for the first time, I have gone through fasting and prayers
asking God to lead me to a trust worthy person who will help me with
this transaction and it interests me to contact you after my prayers
for an assistance to help me transfer this Sum of (USD$6,500,000.00) my father
deposited in a bank here in Cote d'Ivoire before he was
assassinat.

I like honesty,trust,love,truth,caring,& respect, I have all this
qualities in me and i believe you have all this qualities too, that is
why i decided to contact you for this transaction, I will like to ask
you this question please can i trust you and how much percentage do
you want me to offer you after we transfer this money into your
account please i will like you to contact me as soon as possible so
that we can know ourselves better.
Thanks and hoping to hear from you
soonest.

Miss Edvige Coulibaly.

 

Well, if God told her you're trustworthy, then you should surely believe she is as well! LOL

 

Riiiiggghhhttttt.

 

Really Bad E-Mail Scam

I got this today, have no idea who it is from. I like how they keep changing the spelling of 'academy'.

"Ladies and Gents:

As you are aware Teche Area Campus has not billed acadmies for the past two years. After discussions with our parent acadmemy as well as the Cisco Regional Academy Manager, it has been decided that we will revise our CCNA support fee as follows:

Annual Fee: $300 (To include phone support and inservice activities at Baton Rouge Campus, access to NetLab, onsite visit if needed)

In addition, we will also begin billing again for our IT Essentials academies at $300 annually.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you no longer wish to be an academy. I will begin working on new support agreements. Payment will be due by August 31, 2010.

Thanks
Annette Faulk

Academy Connection Team"

Yeah, I am breaking out the credit card for them... :-D

 

Lazy Scammers

This one’s brilliant. Phone rings
Me, Hello.
Mr Scam, Sir it has been reported that your computer is at risk.
Me, OK what’s wrong with it.
Mr Scam, There is a virus on your machine.
Me, What sort of a virus, (Bloody Nutter)
Mr Scam, Sir it is a very nasty virus, and Sir if you tell me your passwords and your email address we will be able to remove it for you, at no cost to yourself whatsoever.
Me, thank you very much, perhaps I could save you a lot of time and just give you my pin number, my mothers maiden name, what colour socks I’m wearing, my doctors name and address, my national insurance number, my wife’s bra size and my inside leg measurement.
At this point the line went dead

:wave

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

You're on a roll tonyroflmao

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

Actually I don't think that's lazy, just stupid. I assume somebody is getting paid to attempt a really idiotic spam scheme, how many takers can they possibly get in an hour?

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

Hi Tony! Maybe you gave them TMI! LOL Too Much Information! :-D
Good to see you again!

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to get your personal info! I'm just curious to know how successful that 'fool' was in obtaining the info from other people:confused I hope he\she was a total failure, but with human nature being the way it is....who knows????

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

Hi TEECEE :wave hows your Lord and Master these days

 

Just received this one from "Yahoo";

We are really sorry for any in convinience this might cause you. Due to the congestion in all Yahoo! account users, Yahoo! will be shutting down all unused accounts. In order to avoid the deactivation of your account, you will have to confirm your e-mail by filling your Login Info below by clicking the reply button.


Full name: .........................................

Username: .........................................
Password: .........................................
Date Of Birth: .....................................
Occupation: .......................................
Country Of Residence: ........................




After you must have followed the instructions on the sheet, your Yahoo! account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thank you for your usual co-operation. We apologize for any inconvinience.

Yahoo! Customer Care
Case number: 2641930
Property: Account Security




Regards,
Yahoo! Account Services
-------------------------
We are really sorry for any inconvinience this might cause you.

 

Wow Brandypeppy, that looks official. Better reply, and give your SSN and a major credit card number just to be safe! You know how hard those free yahoo mail accounts are to get! :-D

Hard to believe, but some people will fall for that stuff.

 

Actually I was going to include my bank account numbers, just in case they also want to send me some money. :-D

 

I would send them $20 and a copy of my drivers license and SS card, just to be safe.
:-D

 

Re: Lazy Scammers

Hi Tony, Uh, not my Lord or Master, but I do have him doing 'rounds' now. LOL.... Keeping him moving. He's hanging in there. :-D Not hard on me one bit roflmao

 

OK, this isn't a humorous post except perhaps for us working mods/admins at all sites. We've banned this person by e-mail and IP and alias some 6 times now but the thing keeps coming back!:eek I wonder if he's surrendering to our superior site management!:-D:boxing

 

Going for a record,maybe?

 

A spam email came my way a few years ago which turned out to be profoundly poetic (once I'd fiddled with the line spacing).

Lucky the bell
Still full and deep of throat,
That only you and I can know.
Les deux Against this sky no longer of our world.
My keyhole blows a gale.
From there.
Toward . . .
Comes up with as a means to its own end.
The snowflakes are swirling, blotting out
They sit with their wives
All day in the sun, IV.
The Paths to Cathay coextensive with everything?
How could they know?
This gap in time, this season not their own,
Where, as I discover as I go through
Is the moon to grow with its lament, it often sounds, instead.
But snow has gathered there, has piled
Up,
In the dread circle hemmed by glaciers.
Are gliding toward me on the ice.
Into Bronze the sky, with no that rings,
With faithful tongue, its pious note

Somewhere, in this mad and crazy world, a minor genius missed their true vocation.

 

Well...the anti-Pepsi email is going around again, and also on Facebook. For the record, it was Dr. Pepper, not Pepsi, that issued cans with the Statue of Liberty and two lines from the Pledge of Allegiance on them. It happened in 2001, and it is not scheduled to appear again "soon". And it had nothing whatsoever to do with them "not wanting to offend people". Thanks for playing.

 

UPS sending virus attack

I have not seen this one before and because i am expecting something in the post i walked straight in :eek My anti virus (good on ya AVG) saved me.

It was only later when i had a think about it "how did they know my E-mail address?

So it is obviously a virus attack from unknown sources.

 

No David it was not an attachment it just said "message" as you see in the first shot and when i clicked it the anti virus kicked in and it went to certification.

 

If from UPS, it will usually say parcel instead of postal.

 

I understand that hrlow but my attention span has not been great for a couple of weeks now due to heavy meds and i just did not register, but as i said "good on ya AVG"

 

Both bosses got that UPS package virus email, unfortunately they both opened it and the IT guy had to fix everyone's pc (I guess it traveled through the network). My female boss thought it was strange that only her & her husband got the email considering I was the one who did all the shipping, still she opened it anyway. I am not sure how (whoever) got their email addresses and not mine when I am the only person that handles the online shipping in the office.

 

HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

Since a few others here also have Skype accounts, I thought I'd share this email I just received.

The email is sent from the very genuine-looking email address "service@skype.com", but when hovering my mouse over the link in the email, it shows a URL that very clearly is non-Skype and fake. Hotmail has blocked a lot of the email's content, and a visit to Skype's real website verifies that nothing has been done to my account.

Be careful!!! (Shameless self-promotion of a guide I wrote on account protection basics. Everyone needs to know how to keep their log-in information safe.)

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

thanks for a heads up.

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

Nothing shameless about trying to help others.

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

Well spotted Mimsy thanks for the heads up :cool , some non believers as i call them, would have just clicked on the link / URL !

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

Fair enough. I didn't want to come across as using this as an excuse to point people to my post, that's all.

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

The more people see it, the better, as far as I'm concerned. In this day and age, if a person makes it deep enough into the internet that they register for forums, but don't know those basics, it's a matter of time before they get in serious trouble.

Thank you for the nice words.

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

I can do that, but it'll take me a while. Give me until next weekend or so to get some research done, especially on email scams, and I'll see what I need to change. Do you want me to just email it over when it's done?

 

Re: HEADS-UP: Skype phishing email

I just saw and replied to your PM, btw.