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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 or that it was so obviously incompetently targeted.
Today, President Barack Obama is in Missouri attempting to resurrect his takeover of our health care system, revive his sagging political fortunes, and fill Claire McCaskill and the Democrat Party’s campaign war chests. This is clearly a way to funnel money to Robin Carnahan, who Obama wants in the Senate to rubber stamp his liberal agenda.
Liberal agenda? I Wish! Anywhere else in the world, Obama would be considered a center/right politician.
As president, Obama has a natural soapbox that Republicans simply cannot compete with. But with your help, we will continue taking our case to the people, even as the media attempts to ignore us.
The media is ignoring you? Fox “News”, talk radio, and conservative pundits seem to be giving your case more than enough attention.
That’s why I am personally asking you for an online contribution of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to the Missouri Republican Party. Every dollar will help us get out our message without depending on the national media.
Without your help, Barack Obama and the Democrats will continue trying to ram government-run health care down the throats of every American—and this time, they might succeed.
Government-run health care? A lie obvious to anyone familiar with the bill. Kinder is counting on people believing the propaganda put out by Fox “News” and the RNC. The real irony is the current healthcare bill is something one would expect from a moderate Republican President. By the way, what’s this obsession conservatives have with things getting shoved down throats?
Obama knows he cannot pass his bill under normal circumstances, so despite the overwhelming opposition from people across the state and around the nation, he now wants to force it through using reconciliation—also called the “nuclear option.” Using this approach to pass such a massive bill is unprecedented in American political history. In 2005, then-Senator Obama said this tactic would lead to “majoritarian absolute power” and was “not what the Founders intended.”
Using this approach to pass such a massive bill is unprecedented in American political history. – Another lie, check out this graph:
But now that he’s president, he doesn’t care about his own past statements or what Americans think.
We will not stand for it—and you shouldn’t either. That’s why your online contribution is so important.
We will use every dollar we raise to elect Republicans at every level of government—Republicans who will continue standing up for Missourians and against the encroachment of big government into the lives of ordinary Americans.
Why should we trust a lying spammer with our money?
Thank you for your steadfast support of conservative principles.
Sincerely,
Peter Kinder
Lt. Governor
P.S. We are just 8 months away from an election that will be critical to the future of our nation. Please make an online contribution of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to the Missouri Republican Party so we can have the resources to compete with Barack Obama’s bully pulpit and spread our conservative message to every corner of our state.
I’m not a big Harry Reid fan, but he makes a good point:
One might conclude that Republicans believe a
majority vote is sufficient to increase the deficit and benefit
the super-rich, but not to reduce the deficit and benefit the
middle class. Alternatively, perhaps Republicans believe a
majority vote is appropriate only when Republicans are in the
majority. Either way, we disagree.
— Senator Harry Reid
(more…)
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 you that you have won a prize money of $750,000.00 United States Dollars Only for the email users this 2010 Prize promotion which is organized by TOYOTA ONLINE CYBER LOTTERY CHINA , We Collects all the email addresses of people worldwide, that are active online this 2010, among the millions that subscribed to MICROSOFT, HOTMAIL, YAHOO, GMAIL Companies domains and few from other e-mail providers, 12 people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners this year 2010.
[Insert obvious joke about how Toyota should be more worried about quality control than running online "lotteries"]
Your email address has therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ($750,000.00 UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash with the following reference numbers
Ticket Number 889-026-1319 .
Serial Number 101-116
Lucky Numbers 009,789,176,
Bonus Number XQW55
INSURANCE Number is:WIF0030910
To begin your claim, Contact our claim department , please call and send mail to your claim agent(Mr Chen Lin) inorder to process your claims with our coperate payee bank:-
1.Your Full Names:
2.Your Country:
3.Telephone Number:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
For futher clarification please call and send mail to your claim agent(Mr Chen Lin) inorder to process your claims with our coperate payee bank:-
Mr Chen Lin.
Claim Agent,
Toyota Lottey China Branch.
Email:chenlin_claimagent2010@yahoo.cn
One would expect the “Toyota Lottey China Branch” to not have a Yahoo email address.
Phone Contact:+8613038890907
*************************************
WARNING: Keep your winning information confidential until your claims are processed and your fund remitted to you in your bank account. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
<sarcasm>Oh, I will.</sarcasm>
Congratulations once again,
Your’s Sincerely,
Mrs.Annie Chen
Online coordinator
We wish you the best of luck, Thank you for being part of our promotional award program and commemorative Anniversary.
Copyright@ 2010 Toyota Lottery promotions All Right Reserve”
Can a scam be copyrighted?
(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 on a compromised machine in India (122.167.68.1). The spamtrap address to which the message was sent was originally harvested on November 4, 2007 by a particularly nasty harvester (74.53.249.34) that is responsible for 53,022,293 other spam messages that have been received by Project Honey Pot.
Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. Our billionth message represents approximately 125 trillion spam messages that have been sent since Project Honey Pot started in 2004.
Considering the over a quarter of a million attempts to post comment spam to this website, I find the following chart interesting:
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: EML/56-TF-8890776
BATCH: 109/91300/EML
PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of the
UK CONVENTRY EMAIL LOTTERY MEGA JACKPOT WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on 10th
of Nov 2009.
I’m pleased to inform you that you’re full of shit.
Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached to ticket
number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 66109-17 drew the
luckynumbers 990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the lottery in
the 2nd category.
Not the 1st category? What kind of scam is this?
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £500,000.00
in cash credited to file REF NO: EML/56-TF-8890776.This is from total
prize money of £5,000,000.00 shared among the Ten (10) international
winners in this category.
To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims
department by email or phone for processing and remittance of your prize
money to you.
The claims officer contact email is:
MR. David Bent
UK CONVENTRY LOTTERY,U.K.
Tel/fax: +4475-5600-9052
Email: davidbent51@aol.co.uk
An AOL email address? <sarcasm> I’m impressed. </sarcasm>
You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as
soon as possible;
1. Reference and Batch Number
2. Names in full
3. Telephone and Fax
Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our
promotions program.
Sincerely,
HARRIET FERRARO
CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS.
Copyright (c) 2009 Euro Millions Inc.
How does “Troy Robinson” <robinsotr@einstein.edu> fit into all this?
This message is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by error, please notify the sender immediately to arrange for return or destruction of these documents.
What are you going to do, call the police?
This email appears to originate from the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network. Either one of their computers has been compromised, or an employee is seeking some additional income.
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 have all heard the haunting song, “Taps”. It’s the song that gives us that lump in our throats and usually tears in our eyes.. But, do you know the story behind the song? If not, I think you will be interested to find out about its humble beginnings.
Reportedly, it all began in 1862 during the Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men at Harrison’s Landing in Virginia. The Confederate Army was
on the other side of the narrow strip of land.
During the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moans of a soldier who lay >severely wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the Captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention.
Crawling on his stomach through the gunfire, the Captain reached the stricken soldier and began pulling him toward his encampment. When the Captain finally reached his own lines, he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead.
The
Captain lit a lantern and suddenly caught his breath and went numb with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It was his own son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out. Without telling his father, the boy enlisted in the Confederate Army.
The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial, despite his enemy status. His request was only partially granted. The Captain had asked if he could have a group of Army band members play a funeral dirge for his son at the funeral. The request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate. But, out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician. The Captain chose a bugler. He asked
the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of the dead youth’s uniform. This wish was granted. The haunting melody, we now know as “Taps” used at military funerals was born.
A moving story, but clearly untrue. One only has to check Wikpedia or snopes.com to get the real story behind Taps.
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 of what?
Our Ref: IKB/NGN/M2F01
Your Ref:
iKobo is a company that specializes in money transfers. With them, you
send money to any country with your MasterCard or Visacard.
Visacard? WTF?
The recipient
gets your transfer put onto a secured Visa debit card which can be used
worldwide at ATM locations for cash withdrawals. This debit card, which is
reusable, is shipped to the recipient first.
As part of our expansion and promotional package for the fiscal year 2009,
we are pleased to inform you that your parcel containing the sum of $2.8
Million US dollars has been made available to you through an iKobo Visa
card.
We have concluded plans to deliver this card to your as soon as possible.
You are to send us the following details:
FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
MARITAL STATUS:
SEX:
AGE:
You are also to immediately pay the delivery charges of US$120 to ensure
prompt delivery.
You are also to immediately eat shit and die.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Copyright © 2001-2009 iKobo, Inc.
https://www.ikobo.com
This email came from a computer in Germany and has a Hong Kong reply-to address. It’s like this scammer wasn’t even trying very hard.
(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…
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 finally come with you after prayers to God. My name is Jennifer Morgan, from Liberia.
I am 20years. My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the civil war after loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in the war. They were raped and shot.
My father established his cocoa business in Kumasi, Ghana. He was in ACCRA, to negotiate for the purchase a field when he was involved in an auto crash. There is a big problem here and the people here hate foreigners. He was hospitalised before he finally gave up on the 24th of March .His death has now made me an orphan and I am exposed to danger.
As I write, foreigners are attacked on daily basis.
Before the unfortunate sudden death, my father called me to his side and told me he have a total sum of 8.45 million dollars deposited in a bank here in Accra.
He said he used me his only surviving child as his next of kin to the deposite and incase he
fails to make it that I should take care of myself and get someone to help invest the money for me. I have all the papers with me here.
I have confirm from the bank all the papers he gave me on the deposit. I asked them to give me the money but they showed me the paper my dad signed with them that I must be 25 years old before they can hand over the money to me personally.
They said I should send them my birth certificate which I did and they told me that am still under the age my dad signed with them.
They told me that my dad made a provision that my guardian can manage the money on my behalf. Please this is where I need you pleased. I am suffering here without money and since he died, I have not gone to school again while there is money lying in there.
I have tried to locate any of my family but all to no avail and this is why I have decided to get one for my self to assist me in getting the money out.
I will do all you want from me provided it’s within my reach and the will of God.
I trust you because I trust God never to lead me astray. Please help me.
I have just told them that my guardaian will contact them because I don’t want them to take advantage of me that i have no guardian.
I want you to stand for me as my guardian and contact the bank. Tell them you are my guardian and because of the crisis here, you want me to be with you where you can better take care of me. Tell them to atransfer the money to you immediately. Please help save my life please. I have no more money here and feeding is a big problem to me now. Please I trust you because I trust God. Again, As soon as the money has been transfered, to assist me with a letter of invitation that will make me get a visa to your country for residence inorder for me to continue my education and to invest the fund in a viable business there.
This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I need you to manage the fund for me, as this is my last hope in life. I am ready to do anything you want provided you help me.
You can Have 20 percent of the money if you help me. If this is acceptable to you, send me a mail through my e-mail account:jenny.is.mummydaughter@gmail.com) so that I can know you more.
Please send me your photo and your telephone number please.
Hope To read from you soon
Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer — September 30, 2009 @ 8:19 am
An obvious scam. But one has to wonder why the scammer would choose to post this to a public guestbook…
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, the United Nations has a 10017 zip code…
claimdivision2009@live.com
One would think the United Nations would have its own email domain.
Attn: Beneficiary——
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/FINPLC/06654/09 ($3.5Million USD)
The International Human Right Commission of the United Nations, have agreed to compensate 100 victims of Internet scam with the sum of $3.5USD (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only) each, out of 7.8 million victims identified. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims.
Because The World Bank have listed Nigeria as the most corrupt country in the world, and majority of these scam artists are from the country, Nigeria provided over 80% of the compensation fund through crude oil. Therefore payments are made to identify victims through the most reliable International Bank in Nigeria under the funding assistance of the World Bank and United Nations Organization. Since the commencement of this program in April 2009, 53 Beneficiaries has been paid, remaining 47 scam victims to be paid. United States/United Kingdom Foundation (USUKF) is the Independent Monitoring Agency.
According to Google, the “United States/United Kingdom Foundation” does not exists.
You are required to forward the following information.
1 Your full name:
2 Your mailing address:
3 Your phone number:
4 Your file reference number stated above,
5 Your age:
6 Profession:
7 Please note that you MUST send above information (1-7) to the under listed email address as soon as possible but not later than (10) days from the date of this mail.
PETERSON PHILIP
Telephone 206-350-9575
In the United States, 206 is the area code for Seattle, not New York City.
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 find out the source of the quote (a right wing email that’s been making the rounds). Here’s what FactCheck.org has to say:
A second false quote has Obama saying he would “stand with the Muslims,” words that don’t appear in his book. What he actually said is that he would stand with American immigrants from Pakistan or Arab countries should they be faced with something like the forced detention of Japanese-American families in World War II:
Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Actual quote from “The Audacity of Hope” [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
Obama did not say he would side with “the Muslims,” which could easily be read as meaning he would side with the world’s Muslim population even if it meant working outside the best interests of the United States. He said he would side with “them,” referring back to his mention of immigrant communities and specifically to “Arab and Pakistani Americans.” Furthermore, he was speaking of an “ugly direction” like the mass internment of Japanese Americans.
This false quote goes hand in hand with the equally false rumor that Obama is a Muslim.
It’s pretty clear the quote is taken out of context and has nothing much to do with Israel. Obama was clearly speaking of something like a mass internment of Muslims like that of Japanese Americans during WWII. Are we to assume the author of the post/comment was intellectually incurious about the alleged Obama quote because it fit his world view, or is he willfully spreading a lie?
Check out snopes.com for more information.
Yow! Am I having fun yet?
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