How lame is this.... (scam emails)

There are allways people trying to scam you out of your hard earned money. I have gotten some pritty lame emails trying, but this one relly rugs me. I never thought this crap was real... then I looked at the aol email

well here is the lattest email I got (it was marked as spam by gmail )

Quote:

"notifications009@aol.co.uk"

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS 2007!!!
Lucky Winner 2007,
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
BATCH NO: *Batch Number*
REF. NO: *ref number*
WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY
BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/WORLD GAMING BOARD. Your name attached to
ticket number 100190876290 with Serial number 801972719 drew the
lucky numbers of *numbers*, which consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of
1,000,000.00euros only, which is deposited with the
UnitedKingdom Clearing house in your favor as beneficiary and
covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. It is important that you
keep your winning confidential to avoid people garneringyour
information and subsequently making claim with your winning
paraphernalia informations, POWERBALL EURO E-MAILINTERNATIONAL
will decline payment if such irregularity occurs.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies
and 3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all
over the world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our
agent below that have been appointed forthe processing of your
claim with your contact telephoneand fax number to begin the
processing of your payment.
ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet
and is open to all persons from age 18 years and above with a
valid email address and who live in any of the aforementioned
countries.This promotion is void in all other countries and is
also void where prohibited.Principals and employees of POWERBALL
EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL Promos and its respective Parents,
subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.
CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for
the processing of claims application. It is even more imperative
for overseas winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are
advised as a matter of urgency, to contact the under listed
licensed and accredited claims agent for the processing of your
prize awards winning. Please contact the clearing house (through
your claims agent only) the body assigned with the verification
of all emergent winner. Therefore all protocols laid down by
them must be followed to facilitate your claims;
CONTACT NAME: PETER RAYMUND
CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.
TELEPHONE: +4470 1112 1986
FAX: 44-871-715-5326
EMAIL: claimsofficial_1@yahoo.gr
(1) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's
full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms
and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause
of payment of your prize awards winning.
(2) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning
details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a
breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will
be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the
oath of secrecy taken on employment.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for
being part of our Promotions program.
Sincerely,
Margaret Ferguson
Co-coordinator.
NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT

Jam it back in, in the dark.

At least it isn't a Nigerian prince trying to peddle penis pills.

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Originally Posted by Nanocaust

At least it isn't a Nigerian prince trying to peddle penis pills.

Pritty much... or another advertisement for breast enlargment (witch I don't have any

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Not very lame - gmail's doing it's job and putting spam in it's appropriate place.

The question is, why are you reading it?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm pleased to say I hardly get any spam any more. Most of it is filtered properly, and the little that does get through is easy to identify as such, because the email addresses are usually nonsensical strings of alphanumeric garbage.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My favorites are always the ones that say 'someone has died in a plane crash and I'm their attorny trying to locate the proper heir to the hundred million dollars (or more) that they left behind... please be honest and let us know... we think its you though...' blah blah blah.

How ya doing, buddy?

I set up a local bayesian anti-spam filter that catches most of my spam these days.

I'm going to see if I can implement a more flexible solution with fetchmail, procmail, and various other tools...

FELIPE NO

You know this occurs like commonplace, so I don't see the big idea. Hell, I've even heard of fake deaths just for some greens through donations and all that.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I remember receiving spam emails with some interesting subjects. There was one that said something along the lines of "You forgot to meet me on Tuesday, so let's schedule for another time." This was before my current Gmail account though.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by ctu

Pritty much... or another advertisement for breast enlargment (witch I don't have any

You don't have enlargements or you don't have breasts? Because the latter is far more interesting than the former.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by TemariPC31

My favorites are always the ones that say 'someone has died in a plane crash and I'm their attorny trying to locate the proper heir to the hundred million dollars (or more) that they left behind... please be honest and let us know... we think its you though...' blah blah blah.

I work customer service at a bank and you wouldn't believe how many people fall for these things. I get at least a customer a week who gave out their account number and stuff to these companies and now have all this fraudulent activity on their accounts.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Quote:

Your name attached to
ticket number 100190876290 with Serial number 801972719 drew the
lucky numbers of *numbers*, which consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.

OF COURSE. Why didn't I think of this? Next time I enter the lotto I'm just going to scribble down *NUMBERS* on it. It's a sure fire one hundred percent bulletproof victory plan!

"And tonight's winning numbers are 6, 13, 8, 2, 22, 16 and supplementary numbers 30 and 4!"
"I WIN, I HAVE THE ALL THE *NUMBERS*"

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

You don't have enlargements or you don't have breasts? Because the latter is far more interesting than the former.

Breasts I am a guy and they still send that stuff to me.....maby they are trying to tell me something. Like I need to become a female and get some big tits :P lol

I was speaking idiomatically.

To be honest, I find scam phones more annoying and irritating than scam emails. (Though you hardly get those if you live in the states or in Canada) Back when I was studying in college in Taiwan, I've gotten countless (yes, countless) scam phone/phone text saying how I 'owe' some bank money and that I should immidiately return the money or my bank accuont will be frozen. The first reaction of most people is usually "Huh? I don't owe the bank any money, what are you talking about?", then will give you a phone number and tell you that you've been scammed and you should phone that number which is supposely the police station. Oh the irony! Then once you call the "police station" with the number THEY provided to you, they will ask for your bank info (ie your bank account #), your personal questions etc (phone, address, name...) and eventually they will get a hold of your bank info etc and get the money. There are also alot of other scam phones like "Congrats you just won this random lottery!" and there are even more ridicuously ones like how someone would phone you and start screaming "HELP ME MOM/DAD (depending on the voice of the person who picks up the phone) I GOT KIDNAPPED" and threaten you to pay or they will kill 'your son/daughter' that you never had.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by ctu

Breasts I am a guy and they still send that stuff to me.....maby they are trying to tell me something. Like I need to become a female and get some big tits :P lol

Even though you're male, you still have breasts.

But people sending you advertisements for female breast enlargement is mildly humorous.

FELIPE NO

I would agree


Well they started to get a bit smarted They used a real domain to send the email from (not a aol addy) "powerballlottery.net"

It says pritty much the same this with a reply to emial being from yahoo.gr

I disided to check out the domin for kicks and giggles and got this

http://webpod.whois.ws/whois-net/ip-...lllottery.net/

Quote:

Domain Name: powerballlottery.net

Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited

Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com

Expiration Date: 2008-03-07
Creation Date: 2002-03-07
Last Update Date: 2007-01-08

Name Servers:
ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com

How ya doing, buddy?

Lol, I've gotten that one where I'm just the lucky winner, and then I'm like...I didn't enter anything. I find those hilarious. Oh, how about those sent from your friends email address and the first couple of sentences are normal but then it goes...."viagra 3 for 1" lol.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'll look at my bulk folder now and then just for shits and giggles. My favorite was probably Sender: CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

I was like, "Gee, THANKS! *DELETED*"

There was also a time where I got 34958347 spam mails for Sam's Club gift cards, so I told my friend Sam to tell her club to stop sending me shit (because I'm lame like that). :B

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I once got an E-mail asking me to confirm my PayPal pass word...
but I hadn't even used that E-mail address to sign up for anything, so obviously it was fake. I clicked it anyway, and right away FF and my firewall, and WOT started trying to tackle me off the site

How ya doing, buddy?

Why would you read spam mail?? leave it alone, its annoying and a waste of such valuable fun time =P

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I laughed so hard when I got an email from my agency's security office today, subject: "New Email Scam - Pay off Assassin or be Killed".

Quote:

A new extortion scam is working its way through the Agency. The scam e-mail threatens to kill the recipient if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. Disturbingly, these emails may contain personal details such as an address, place of work, or a family member's name, seeming to add legitimacy to the threat. The emails are from valid yahoo or hotmail accounts. Users should not respond to the email as any interaction confirms to the spammer that they’ve reached a live account and escalates the intimidation.

From the FBI:


I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

I laughed so hard when I got an email from my agency's security office today, subject: "New Email Scam - Pay off Assassin or be Killed".



From the FBI:

That is hilarious. Especially the part where it says "YES/NO" (reminds me of my middle school days: 'Do you like me? Circle Yes/No')

I usually use my gmail and school account, so I rarely see any scan e-mails. They're incredibly irritating, and I wouuld love to write a witty response, but then that shows that your e-mail is valid or whatever, and keep sending you shit.

Anyone remember that website that has a ton of Nigerian prince scams examples? They were awesomely funny.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I rarely get spam anymore. Thunderbird does a good job of filtering that shit both at home and at work. I don't even bother reading the ones that slip through - I never find them very funny. ;_;

I think it was Ulysses who had linked to a hilarious site that totally spins shit on the Nigerian scams, though. I wish I remember which site it was. Maybe he will show up and post it! =D (Its great reading!)

FELIPE NO