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Really, really strange spam/phishing/junk emails

A few years ago here in Japan I started to get cell phone SPAM.

No SPAM at all. Then one day I received over 100 messages. The next day over 200. And then it bounced around between 100-200 for the next few days until I changed my cell phone e-mail address.

Sucked! I hate SPAM.

Apparently, someone inside the cell phone company had been selling the e-mail addresses.
 
I got rid of my yahoo account and opted to pay for dot.mac last summer. I have not recieved one single spam since then! I used to email back the spammers and give them a little correction, and strangely a few replied to my replies with "no this is a serious offer please don't be so rude."

Stop buying Pr0n0 if you don't want yer e-mails pimped out. lol
 
It's like these people have launched a full blown assault on spam email assault or something. Definitely organized. :cool:

Ooh, checked my other email, and for entertainment purposes, I give you, a African money laundering scheme email.

Some dude wanting to steal money from me said:
FROM THE DESK OF IBRAHIM BELLO
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TELEPHONE 00226-76-63-74-15
Dear Friend
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of African Developent bank(ADB) here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$30m dollars in an
account that belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died along with
his entire family in Monday, 31 July, 2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please
visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors
brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after six years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision
of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the
business and 60% would be for me.
Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a
relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that i
will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and
fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the
money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
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I've been getting these stock spam e-mails for a few months, but mine are more colorful :) And whats with the gibberish at the bottom?

Heres the lastest:
 

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todd2000 said:
I've been getting these stock spam e-mails for a few months, but mine are more colorful :) And whats with the gibberish at the bottom?

Heres the lastest:
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That's supposed to keep the bayesian (or some other spam) filter from recognising the e-mail as spam.

I've been getting them, too. For months, BellSouth wasn't filtering them at all, but this week, they're even getting through Google mail's defences.
 
My ISP filter and Mail.app filter work pretty well, usually no more than 3 or 4 a day but the last week or so, I've been getting upwards of 50 a day. Almost all are the penny stock scams. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
 
I get about six spams a day on Yahoo!. I have never seen Yahoo! get more spam than my hotmail account. Here is a sample of one of the emails:


some dick spammer#1 said:
Hi

FHARMACY economize more with http://ruikiontunhderunhasdefun.com






you are tired of living. After five minutes the outer door closes and
nerve gas is pumped in through those vents up there.
I dont believe you! I snapped.
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:eek:

Here is another one. again, I recieve 6 or more of these a day!

some dick spammer #2 said:
Hi,

VlAffGRA VALffIUM CIAffLIS http://www.lerinkionyunhderunhasde.com

,
the red brick road.
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I am sooooo sick of this.
And just for fun, here is another one:

some dick spammer #3 said:
Hi,
VlArrGRA VALrrlUM ClArrLlS http://www.easaserunjadesunjin.com

As can easily be imagined this delicate flower of a lyric rally went
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I also get spam from people trying to steal money from me. Damn you, Yahoo!
 
Glad to know I'm not the only one.

I thought it odd, as I've only gotten one or two spam emails ever until recently. I don't go to pr0n sites, no warez, no p2p, or whatever the hell else spammers prey on.

What sucks is, this is my business address, and people I don't know are always sending me inquiry emails. The spams look just like the one I get from clients on my blackberry, until I open them to see this garbage.

I hope there's a special spot in hell for these goons.
 
Mike Teezie said:
I thought it odd, as I've only gotten one or two spam emails ever until recently. I don't go to pr0n sites, no warez, no p2p, or whatever the hell else spammers prey on.

What sucks is, this is my business address...
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Not being a frequenter of porn sites myself (or not stupid enough to give my actual address if I did ;) ), all the spam I get is directly through having my website addresses on my websites. There is a way of encrypting it so it isn't readable by bots, but I never really looked into it, but it might be worth you doing that if it meant it stopped it before it really got going.
 
I've suffered a huge increase in the number of spam emails I've been getting over the past month or two, my work email address in particular has been swamped with them. I also have a .Mac email address which I only give out to my closest chums and that's remained spam free, so there is that at least.

In actual fact, I received an email from my ISP only yesterday about the amount of spam their customers have been receiving lately – turns out it's all our fault and we need to update our virus protection...

What's interesting is that the subject matter tends to come in waves – a couple of months ago it was mainly dodgy software for a week or two, then it was fake Rolex watches for a spell, and at the moment the majority of the junk is about share trading and insider info on the next big company. Of course, you always receive plenty of emails offering you pills and medications, usually to help improve your sexual abilities.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
What's interesting is that the subject matter tends to come in waves – a couple of months ago it was mainly dodgy software for a week or two, then it was fake Rolex watches for a spell, and at the moment the majority of the junk is about share trading and insider info on the next big company.
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I've noticed that too, and that I can get 30 a day to each address for a week, and then pretty much none more.

Jaffa Cake said:
Of course, you always receive plenty of emails offering you pills and medications, usually to help improve your sexual abilities.
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I know. Apparently my girlfriend isn't satisfied by my small penis, which is a bit of a shame. :(
 
All joking aside, more and more 'legit' companies are reduced to selling their email addresses in order to make an extra buck or two. It's very annoying.
 
I Have A Great Solution

I get the exact same emails as the OP, always slipping through Mail's spam filter, so I set up a Mail Rule (Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced ) to send to junk mail folder if the message contains symbol:

Works like a charm

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When I saw the really strange junk email

I was hoping for something stranger than what I get, or at least as strange.

1) A person asking for a time machine or time machine parts.
2) Used construction Equipment
3) Advertising space on Billboards outside of Moscow.

Pump and dump spam doesn't really cut it in my book.
 
yellow said:
They're not all that strange, they're spams for so-called penny stocks in hopes that suckers will buy them and drive up the price and those in the know will sell off and make a profit before the price gets "corrected".
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This scheme has a name: it's called "pump-and-dump." Very popular with internet scammers lately.

I'm getting about 100 spam e-mails every day now, probably half of them pump-and-dumps. I've installed the JunkMatcher plugin -- it catches most of them.
 
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