Whiny spam from Lt. Governor Peter Kinder: Subject: Barack Obama is in Missouri to resurrect his political fortunes. Help us stop him! From: “Lt. Governor Peter Kinder” <gopfeedback@mogop.org> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:28 UT To: Me Dear Conservative, I’m not sure whether I should be more bothered by the obvious bullshit in this email [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Trolls / Spammers / Kooks / Clueless People category.
2010 Toyota Lottery promotions!
Another Scam Lottery Promotion! From: “TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC)”<toyotalottery@japan.co.jp> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:03:02 +0800 Subject: 2010 Toyota Lottery promotions! TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) Room No.220 Beijing Fortune Building No.5, Dong San Huan Bei Lu Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100004, China Customer Service Department China? Why not Japan? Dear Email Owner, This is to inform [...]
Interesting Statistics from Project Honey Pot
(via email) 1 Billion Spammers Served PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 15, 2009 On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT) Project Honey Pot received its billionth email spam message. The message, a picture of which is displayed below, was a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) phishing scam. The spam email was sent by a bot running [...]
UK CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS
Yawn! Someone would have me believe I’ve won yet another lottery… From: “Troy Robinson” <robinsotr@einstein.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:49:52 -0500 Subject:EML/56-TF-8890776 Why would a so called “winning notification message” have an Albert Einstein Healthcare Network email address? REF: EML/56-TF-8890776 UK CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS National Office, 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London SW1W 9SP, REF: [...]
Gullible
Someone sure is gullible: If any of you have ever been to a military funeral in which taps were played; this brings out a new meaning of it. Here is something Every American should know. Until I read this, I didn’t know, but I checked it out and it’s true. We in the United States [...]
Visacard
Yet another scam… From: “iKobo Inc.” <info@ikobo.com> Reply-To: ikobo_inc@yahoo.com.hk iKobo is apparently a real entity. While the from email address looks legit, the reply-to address is a Yahoo! Hong Kong email address. The scammer if hoping the victim will naively reply to this email. Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:56:56 +0200 Subject: NOTIFICATION NOTIFICATION? Notification [...]
250,000
(from the depressing milestone dept.) Since January 16, 2006, over 250,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 10,000 spam comments since April 16, 2009 and over 70 times the number of legitimate comments posted to this web site since June, 2001. A quarter of a million spam comments…
Guestbook Scam
A scam gets by the comment spam filters and shows up on my guestbook… Dearest One I am very sorry to bother you with my plight. Please know that it’s not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God. After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve [...]
Meta Scam
A new twist on the old Nigerian scam… From: PETERSON PHILIP <ppunocompensation@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:32 -0700 Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/FINPLC/06654/09 ($3.5Million USD) United Nations Organization Office of PETERSON PHILIP Director International Fraud Surveillance and Control. New York, NY 10027 Notice the absence of a complete address (no street address, office, etc.). Also, [...]
Ignorant or Lying
We report, you decide: The author of the above post, also posted the response (typos are preserved): mikey, on September 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm Said: President Obama fromhis book Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’ It took less than 2 minutes to [...]
