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| Root | Jan 15 2009, 03:38 PM Post #11 |
The Speaker for the Dead
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Look Jeff, even e-mail spam is trying to help you! |
Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Jeff | Jan 15 2009, 03:52 PM Post #12 |
Lord of Pie & BBWs
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Thank you, Root, and I appreciate FAN's continued moral support. :\ *Sigh*. Onto the next e-mail! Flag this message Paying $225 a Day... You Must be Able to Work From Your Home Friday, January 18, 2036 7:59 PM From: "Can You Work Tomorrow?" <CanYouWorkTomorrow@www15.canvasoul.com> Add sender to Contacts To: x@yahoo.com Can You Work Tomorrow?** Paying $225 a day... you must be able to work from your home. http://1628081.x.com/lk2541 **Receive your first check in 15-days. To stop receiving announcements about this offer: http://1628081.x.com/lk2542 4915 Bathurst St. # 209 Toronto, ON. M2R1X9 Canada - - - - If you prefer not to receive messages from us: http://www15.x.com/remove.php?e=x Direct Consumer Services 723 S. Casinno Center Blvd., 2nd Floor Las Vegas, NV 89101-6716 Analysis: Aww, only 27 years in the future this time, guys? You're disappointing me. I get this one so many times a day I'm close to being able to recite it in my sleep. The big one on this scam is the promise of 225 dollars a day. That's a hefty sum for just about anyone. For a month at that rate you're looking at ~6700 dollars, making for something to the tune of ~81000 a year. And telling you to "...work from home" in so doing. Sounds too good to be true? That's because that's EXACTLY the case. The trick this time around is to keep things as vague as possible. They don't ever mention the position required, the skills required for it, who or what entity you'd be working for or exactly why you were asked to 'work' in the first place. For all you know this could be virtually anything under the sun. But odds are good you won't get this far as soon as you click that link. Look closely. The link they want you click if you accept and the link you're supposed to click to unsubscribe (from what is unclear) ARE THE SAME LINK. Are you guys high? Seriously? Only a blind idiot would fall for that trick. It's malicious through-and-through, no doubt. Mind the links and mind them well - you'll probably see a lot of them. Avoid at all costs. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Dietaku | Jan 15 2009, 09:37 PM Post #13 |
Grade A /B/tard
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I dunno, man. She's a black belt. She might even be hawt. However, the whole, "From the future" thing might be a hold up in your relationship, seeing as she's probably not even born yet. |
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| Jeff | Feb 7 2009, 05:13 PM Post #14 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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From Sister Mary Williams. Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:27 PM From: "sismary_williams" <sismary_williams@sify.com> Add sender to Contacts To: sismary_williams@sify.com ATTN:Greetings. Dearest in Christ, PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD. I am Mrs Mary Williams from kuwait. I am married to Dr.Henry who worked with Kuwait embassy in cote d'ivoire for nine years before he died in the year 2002. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians.Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 2.5Million U.S. Dollars) with one BANK in cote d'ivoire.Presently, this money is still with the BANK.Recently, my Doctor told me that I would notlast for the next three months due to cancer problem.Though what disturbs me most is my stroke Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church that will use this to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bossom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health,because of the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the BANK in ivory coast.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the original- beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived alife of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth.Please always be prayerful all through your life.and any delay in your reply will give me room in searching for a church or christian individual for this same purpose.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you. Remain blessed in the name of the Lord. Yours in Christ. Mrs Mary Williams. Analysis: Oh good grief. I really just had to put my head down after reading this. First off, please take time to note that the "Send To" address is the SAME AS THE ONE THAT IT IS BEING SENT FROM. Second, this one is specifically designed to prey on religiously-founded goodwill. This is simply infuriating as I happen to be a Christian man, even if I come off as a pragmatic misanthrope. (Hey you -CAN- be both. To err is human, after all). First off - she starts off the e-mail with "ATTN:Greetings" as if that was the e-mails header (It isn't. That's just the first thing she wrote in the body of the e-mail). Immediately afterwards she gives the most generic greeting someone of the allegedly-Christian leaning could possibly give. She doesn't even make an attempt at a name. Oh and she misspells "Endeavor" immediately after that. She claims to be one Mrs. Mary Williams - a name so generic as to be untraceable, even in a place like Kuwait - and is married to DOCTOR Next - her husband died. Daww. Apparently a doctor who didn't even recognize his symptoms of... wait, what disease did he have? Well, she doesn't tell us. She's as delightfully unhelpful here as she has been the entire time and I'm only on the second paragraph. Also, she claims he died in four days time. What disease is this? Did he only exhibit symptoms for four days or was he infected for four days or what? This entire part makes absolutely no sense, but the logic (or lack thereof) only worsens from here. She then mentions the Bible condemns marriage after one's husband dies. Uhh... no. Actually, it doesn't. In the Jewish tradition, she'd be married to her husband's next-oldest brother - and as of Christian tradition which she claims to understand, the marriage would be considered over by de facto ('Til death do we part) and she would be free to marry again, should she consider doing so. Jesus Christ himself said it didn't even matter while publicly speaking in the gospels. This woman is clearly an idiot. Next comes the point - 2.5 million dollars in a non-specified BANK. Why she insists on making "bank" in all capitals is anyone's guess - but for the rest of the e-mail her capitalization is schizophrenic at its best. Another thing I want to note is how she steadfastly refuses to call the country "Ivory Coast" - as most people in America know it. When she does use the alternative, she refuses to punctuate it properly. What's her problem? Then, she mentions she has cancer and will more than likely die in three months. This is good-old-fashioned (or bad-old-fashioned) pathos. "Pity me! I'm gonna die! Heed my last request, good citizen I randomly e-mailed that I don't actually know and will never meet!". Anyone else have their cynic alarms raging at this point? I know I do. She then randomly mentions having a stroke and then with absolutely no transition or even use of subtlety to say she wants the money to go to a good cause. She then makes the tell-tale mistake of implying a Christian -INDIVIDUAL- would do better than a well-maintained church or organization. Anyone with the slightest inkling of a theological notion in their head knows how wrong this is. Another thing worth mentioning is her refusal to acknowledge what sect she's a part of - for instance, if she's Catholic or Orthodox, why would she give the money to a WASP like me? Anyways, she is now up to TWO complete and utter violations of ideas she allegedly holds dear, but we're not done yet. She then contradicts herself - again stating she'd prefer a church - and makes a rather strange claim that doesn't make a whole lot of coherent sense: "I want a church that will use this to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained." A church to fund churches? That in itself is a smidge redundant first off, second how many orphanages do you know of that actively go out an evangelize? I can't think of any. Why? Because they're too busy raising kids. Maybe in a godly manner, but still. Also, she makes a point to mention widows, but nothing of kids, teens, single adults or widowers. Now we can essentially infer she has abandonment issues and hates men. Whoo-hoo! Abiblical concept #3! She also apparently doesn't understand inheritance laws as she first says she has no family or children. Aww, poor widow, right? Well, two paragraphs later (after spouting off quotes from the Sermon on the Mount which a blind idiot could recite these days and a quote from Exodus) she then says her HUSBAND'S FAMILY IS WITH HER. In case she was so quick to forget, inheritance goes to next of kin - regardless if they're above or below you on the family tree. Also, you guys had 11 years to make something happen, you have no one but yourself to blame if you die alone. Idiot. She then encourages you to just e-mail her and discourages any attempts to contact her via phoneline - another element of a scam artist. Right now I just can't help but envision some overweight 30-40 year old man in Russia but that's just me... Finally, "she" goes on a long tirade of random assorted Biblical quotes essentially DEMANDING you contact her so she can throw money on you and not on her in-laws. What a wonderful lady! Okay, sarcasm aside, this is a scam. How do I know this? Well, Mrs. Williams sent me this EXACT SAME E-MAIL early in 2008 on my older e-mail account and one again the year before. If she hasn't kicked that bucket by now it isn't cancer and the bucket has probably rusted. Delete this trash and think not another thing of it. "He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished." -Proverbs 17:5 Edited by Jeff, Feb 7 2009, 05:20 PM.
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Root | Feb 7 2009, 06:09 PM Post #15 |
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The Speaker for the Dead
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This is as sad as they get...I agree though, this is a slap in the face. |
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Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Jeff | Feb 25 2009, 05:31 PM Post #16 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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x@yahoo.com View your FICO score changes. Monday, January 18, 2038 10:14 PM From: "Credit Score Update" <csu@z8.portinwardness.com> To: x@yahoo.com Did you know that the average American score is 692? If your score is lower than that, borrowing can get real tough View Yours Here! Check out this chart which explains the impact of your score: 500-559: very risky - need to work on improving your rating 560-619: risky - you will have trouble borrowing 620-674: Sub-prime - may qualify but higher interest 675-699: average - you will qualify for most 700-719: very good - qualifies a person for favorable terms 720-849: excellent - best score range and best terms Click Here to Get Your Free Credit Report Now! *Credit DiagnosisSM provides you with the tools you need to access and monitor your financial/credit information through the program's credit reporting and monitoring benefits. Credit Diagnosis and its benefits providers are not credit repair services providers and do not receive fees for such services, nor are they credit clinics, credit repair or credit service organizations or businesses, as defined by federal and state law. Credit services are provided by TransUnion Interactive, Inc. FreeCreditReports360.com 4447 North Central Expressway, Suite 110 PMB 406 Dallas, Texas 75205 We do not engage in spam practices or share or sell personal information to third parties, period. To be immediately removed from our contact records, please use this safe unsubscribe link: Unsub Here Analysis: My parents actually got this one well before I ever did - but now that I have a copy of it, I may tear it asunder. Without even defaulting to my usual mockery of the timestamp, let's take the time to re-read the subject line. That's right, they don't even know my name. Instead, they use the e-mail address as if it was my name. If that doesn't just scream "THIS IS A SCAM FROM SOMEONE WITH A REMARKABLY LOW IQ" I don't know what does. Okay, this entire e-mail hangs on credit rating. Some of the users here might be too young to have been properly introduced to the concept so allow me to explain it as best as I can. The basic idea is that it's a number representing your general competence with money. By that I mean it hinges on your ability to repay loans, your current assets, how much debt you have on your credit cards, etc. The number is determined by three, large, faceless organizations with access to more information than is entirely comfortable if you ask me, but then again, who am I? These three corporations are more than happy to supply any given individual with their credit reports (one free copy per year from each organization) namely because after the first one you pay for copies there on out. But that's just it - should you go to one of these guys and ask for a credit report they'll more than likely ask for name, address and social security number. I play odds 10-1 that the scam e-mail as presented above will ask for the exact same, but rather than giving you a credit report, they'll steal your identity and God help you at that point because then to get help you'll have to publicly admit how you're a complete imbecile who fell for an anonymous e-mail scam. There's no reason you should fall for this - if you want your credit report, getting a copy of it is a piece of cake but it's not one of those things that comes to you. You have to go to them and that right there is your tip-off. This is child's play. Keep awake and alert and mind your future-sent e-mails and stay away from obvious scams. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Jeff | Jul 12 2009, 11:44 AM Post #17 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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I haven't done one of these in a while, so let's crack one open, shall we? GREETINGS MY DEAR FRIEND IT IS CONFIDENTIAL Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:26 AM From: "Wong Peter" <peters.wong17@gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients I am sorry to encroach into your privacy in this manner, Ifind it pleasurable to offer you my partnership in business,I only pray at this time that your address is still valid. I want to solicit your attention to receive (44.5million usd) on my behalf, The purpose of my contacting you is because mystatus would not permit me to do this alone. If interested please reach me back via my personal address wong.peters@gmail.com and I will send you the full details and more information about myself and the funds. If interested. Kind regards, Wong Peter. Analysis: Beautiful. Just beautiful. The guy, first of all, seems to have a really hard time with whether his first or last name is Wong or Peter or Peters. He seems to interchange it at random intervals. HMM! IT'S LIKE HE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE OR SOMETHING! He also has a punctuation error in the tag line of the message, failing to appropriately place a comma between "GREETINGS MY DEAR FRIEND" and "IT IS CONFIDENTIAL". Also, does anyone else find it really obnoxious to put a subject line in all caps? IT'S THE INTERNET EQUAL OF YELLING. SO DON'T DO IT. SCHMUCKS. Next, he claims he wants you to "receive (44.5million usd)" on his behalf (and the terminology used leaves something to be desired). He then claims he requires your help (refusing the entire paragraph to acknowledge you by name or e-mail) because of his "status". Also, he has this really annoying habit of putting a break between his sentences like this one here. It's really jarring and makes the text really difficult to follow coherently. I'm not sure if that's because of a tic or because the fellow's just illiterate. However, if I were a gambling man, I'd wager on the latter before the former. He then asks you to contact him at his "personal e-mail" address - so his e-mail address inverted and given an arbitrary number isn't personal enough? Or is that his work e-mail? Hmm... NOT LIKE HE HAS ANYTHING TO HIDE, RIGHT, GUYS?! He then ends on, of all things, a sentence fragment and steadfastly refuses to use commas until he signs the thing. This is obviously a scam. The name inconsistency, the random, arbitrary e-mails used, the lack of information on virtually anything most importantly being how he knows you and calls you a "dear friend" at least once. Also, any e-mail sent to "undisclosed recipients" or, in my case, the grammatically incorrect "undisclosed-recipients" is going to be spam a minimum of 95% of the time. This is an obvious scam and only an idiot would fall for it. Peace. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Sean | Jul 12 2009, 11:59 AM Post #18 |
The ⑥of Four Against Nature
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It's such a shame, because there aren't enough people here who could learn something from your warning. Oh well, good job nonetheless |
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| Jeff | Jul 27 2009, 09:52 AM Post #19 |
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Hello there are still searching for work? Monday, July 27, 2009 5:51 AM From: "alejandra provence" <alejandraprovence4dv@gmail.com> To: x@yahoo.com Hey There my name is Daniel and my company is interested in hiring you for a online Position. We seen your Ad on craigslist and you seem to be very qualified for the Position we are offering. What we do is basically work for Google. Our workers search websites that they dont already have listed. For every website that you can submit you make anywhere from $5 to $30 depending on the quality of your link! Our top earners are making around $500 every week! Working For us is just like being your own boss! You decide how much Hours you put into everything so basically you make your own paycheck. Anyhow if you're Still interested in a position then head over to http://x.com and get your started kit today. All you have to do is pay the shipping and handleing fee's, Although we do ask that you pay the original shipping and handleing fee's we will re-imburse you as soon as you recieve your product and contact us. The only reason we ask for you to pay the shipping fee's originally is to make sure that you get your starter kit as soon as possible so we can begin working. Also we have found that people willing to pay a fee to get started will take the work more seriously. In the past we sent out all of the starter kits for free but many people signed up who were not genuinely interested and our company took a huge loss. But as soon as you pick up your begginers kit we will be standing by to help you start looking for links to submit right away so you can see first hand how much money your going to be making. --- gndxy30soit7ctnepgaj3l3srd0lnnsxz9jnuhgps5xulc81cepj6qu7b0yz5hu ddsnyjspf40j68vr39a6cqu1au087momqn0vs116xmr62fupcifcosvwv5sxz0g sptbgpvfhfs7pk0s4mycvb5s Analysis: Well, let's not beat around the bush here, shall we? There's an awful lot here to contend with. The person introduces themselves as Daniel, even though both the "Sent from" and e-mail address read "alejandra provence". So, now that we have the name/e-mail disconnect that colors so many of these wonderful spam-mails, we may resume. He (I think it's a he) then claims he saw my ad on Craigslist. I've never even been to Craigslist before and I'm only dimly aware of its existence and purpose. Claiming he say my "Ad" there narrows his potential demographic from "Morons" to "Morons who use Craigslist". I should go ahead and point out here that his capitalization and punctuation skills are simply atrocious. He then goes on to say his company works for Google. This is appeal to popularity - citing the name of a well-known company for credibility. However, anyone who's done a shred of research on the internet giant knows full-well that it's run by amoral, corrupt liberal pricks and is just as untrustworthy as this e-mail. He then talks about contributing links but never says to or for what, but promises a ludicrous payment for each. I reiterate: he never says what the links are for beyond "listing" but what listing this may or may not be is never mentioned again. He then mentions how much money and freedom comes for working for them, but doesn't cite any sources or actual examples. And it's at this point that the entire e-mail takes a turn for the truly bizarre. He gives us the link he wants us to follow then lets into the oddest part of the e-mail yet. Talking about starter kits and paying shipping and handling and all this other nonsense that has, up until now, not been so much as acknowledged. He then says how people willing to pay upfront are better employees. Okay, just a quick aside here - for those of us here who have or have had jobs previously, how many jobs required PAYING A FEE to the employer? I hope you can't think of any, because I sure can't. Why? Because that's not how it works. This is a scam to lure you in, make you pay fees under the pretense of shipping and handling for some "starter kit" and bleeding you for what you're worth. They never even say what the starter kits are! He then ends by telling you how much money you'll be raking in by doing this thing. He then ends the e-mail in a flurry of letters and numbers in no particular order or pattern. Why? I don't know. I actually broke it into three parts to avoid stretching out the forum window twice as long as it should be. This is obviously a scam, trying to tempt you with promises of a $500-a-week salary and then asks you to pay for a starter kit without telling you anything useful or at all insightful. If you fall for this one, you're a gullible idiot. And finally, just for a little fun, I decided to play teacher and take my "Red Pen of Doom" to the paper. Taking off 2 points from 100 points possible for each error. At the end, not even counting the gibberish at the end, this e-mail got only 40 points. Now that is sad. |
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