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Gmail warns me that similar messages have been used for identity theft!
Not that I needed the warning. After all, what would Google need Correctional Officers for?


I'm tempted to bait this one just for the fun of it!

I receive a lot of spam but so do some of my friends. Here's an entertaining job offer that one of my friends received (and forwarded to me )
Pay special attention to job position number 11. I'll even highlight it for you!

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I get spam emails all the time. The number of African Princesses that have emailed me is easily more than the number of known African states!
This is the first time an email from a man seeking a woman has arrived though! So it may be a new take on an old idea.

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For those of you that don't know, 'Gary Host' is a traditional hacker's name. Some systems automatically create user names from a person's registered name. On such systems, 'Gary Host' generates the username, 'ghost'
This spam email was sent to me by one such 'ghost' .

Of course, money is seldom sent in cash these days and 'secure boxes' where the contents are not marked as cash would not be covered by insurance! .
Not to mention that sending cash across borders is generally illegal except in cases where there is a legitimate reason. (such as banks needing cash for holiday makers about to take a trip)
Strange how he could verify my 'inheritance' but he doesn't even have my name yet dontcha think?

Spam a la Facebook style!

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I'll try to remember that if I should ever happen to consider travelling to the USA. .

Here's the attached note:




Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Website: www.fbi.gov

Attention Beneficiary


FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE? GET BACK TO US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU DONT WANT US TO ARREST YOU AND JAIL YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

This is the final warning you are going to receive from us do you get me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you?

We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails is it because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested, today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below, then we would first send a letter to the MAYOR of the city where you reside and direct them to close your bank account until you have been put jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the FBI, CIA and other enforcement agency. We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not suppose to be working for the government or any private organization.

Your ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you. This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the CERTIFICATE SIGNED, ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you where instructed in the e-mail below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have been given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to these directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties confiscated.

You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you, as our director has already been notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now the WARRANT OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the FBI director. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and right now if you ID is placed on our website as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all the local channels that you are wanted by the FBI.

As a good Christian and a Honest man, I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent transactions, i called the EFCC and they directed me to a private attorney who could help you get the process done and he stated that he will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $99 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible thing today and tomorrow to get this process done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which is valued at the sum of $10.500,000.00 usd.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 6/30/2012 so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail without getting a response from you, Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its consequences once it has befall on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.

NAME: GOZIE OBI
ADDRESS: LAGOS NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER: WE TRUST
AMOUNT: $99
Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
MTCN:=========

Send the payment details to me which are senders name and address, mtcn number, text question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $10.500,000.00 usd which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.

Note/ all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are given a grace today to make the payment for the document after which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny because you are been watched.

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

ROBERT MUELLER

WASHINGTON DC
Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 Website: www.fbi.gov


Thanks for reading my blog Robert! .
It's nice to see that even the barely literate can get a job with the FBI as an investigator. (in the IT branch no less! )

RE:Good Factory for Pigment Spam
###################@yahoo.cn> 26 April 2012 03:00
Why is this message in Spam? It contains content that is typically used in spam messages. Learn more

Reply-To: ##################@yahoo.cn
To: (someone else's email address here! )
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Dear Manager,

We are specialized PIGMENTS factory for paints and coatings inks,stains
industry.We produce Inorganic and Organic pigments.



Our Main products as follows:


Titanium dioxide (Rutile and Anatase)
Iron Oxide (red,yellow,brown,orange,black,green and blue)
Chrome green and Chrome yellow.



If you need our products please feel free let us know.we will offer u our

best price.Need sample,let us know.


Looking forward your kindly reply.



Thanks

Alice



Email:#####################@yahoo.cn



T########################CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
Web:####################
TEL: ######################
FAX: 0###############
Post code:300350
NO.183 ###############ROAD, ############### BUSINESS

PARK, S################# CITY, CHINA


They may actually be legit! .

As my regular readers know, I don't like spammers! This one, however, gets my sympathies! .
if anyone wants to consider his application, let me know and I can forward his CV to you! .

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To:
undisclosed recipients: <>
Date:
Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:22 PM
Subject:
From Miriam, I will like to know more about you,

My Dearest,
I am more than happy in getting your mail at my.opera.com. How was your day?,Mine is a little bit cold over here in Dakar Senegal . My name is Miriam from Liberia in West Africa 23 yrs,5.3ft tall, dark in complexion,(never married before )and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country. My late father Dr Wilson Khalifa was the personal adviser to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and killed my mother and father in a cold blood. It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to a near by country Senegal by the help of UN army, where i am leaving now in the mission. I would like to know more about you. Your likes and dislikes, your hobbies and what you are doing presently. I will tell you more about myself in my next mail. Attached here is my picture and I will also like to see your picture. Hoping to hear from you soonest,
yours in love, Miriam.


Dear Miriam
If you want to know more about me, read my blog!
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Most of the spam I receive seems to be in Chinese lately. But here is the first readable spam letter I received this year! .
Clearly, British banks hire people who cannot read and write in English! .

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Union Pay Malaysia Sdn Bhd
(address deleted)


Union Pay{ATM Compensation Payment Notification}


Attention Dear Beneficiary,


This is to inform you that the Malaysian Union Pay settlement Committee and the ATM International Inc. wishes to congratulate you on the successful emergence in our ongoing fund remittance promo of all ATM card users around the globe. This scheme was initiated by the MUP and the ATM Inc. to compensate ATM card users and also to help the world in the sustainable 2010 poverty alleviation scheme. In regards to this, we wish to inform you that your ATM compensation funds valued at (US$1.800.000.00) One million and eight hundred thousand United States dollars has been authorized to be released to you through our corresponding financial institution in Malaysia.


BENEFICIARY SELECTION PROCESS
No tickets were sold out. Your email was one of the lucky emails/ATM Card users selected RANDOMLY via E-wheel Computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 companies and 300,000 individual email/ATM card users, from all over the world during the ATM Online EMAIL selection draw.
In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via our swift card payment centers, which is the latest technology powered by the MUP/ATM Inc.This World Union Pay card will be uploaded with your fund and couriered to your location via speed post and a tracking number issued to you to enable you track your parcel till it gets to its final destination. This card can be used in any ATM machine in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting our ATM Center Manager with the requested information as listed below to the follow office via email.


Union Pay Malaysia Sdn Bhd
(contact details deleted)
Contact Person: Mr.Alex Wung


Required information:
1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Address Were You Want Us to Send the ATM Card
4. Your Age and Current Occupation
5. Country


Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-3714) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject. Now contact our ATM center Manager for more details.


We Wait For Your Expedite Response.


Yours in Service,
Mrs.Tracy Lou



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NetBank Alert: Online Payment Made Spam
Nedbank <secure@nedbank.co.za> 16 August 2011 16:53
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Dear Client,

A payment has been made to your account. To view the details of the payment, please click here to login. Please ensure that you enter the Reference NO that will be sent to your cell phone immediately after your login

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact our support centre


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I don't even have a Nedbank account! .

If you can't figure this one out four yourself, then don't use email! .

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For those of you who haven't noticed, there has been a spate of spam/propaganda

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