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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 [...]

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: [...]

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, [...]

UN Grant Scam

A scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Ayuntamiento de Loporzano” <aytoloporzano@aragon.es> Reply-To: <stepgrstep@live.com.my> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:25:18 +0800 Subject: Re: The “from” address is apparently from Malaysia and the “reply-to” is apparently from Spain – neither of which appear to be from any kind of UN entity. One would think someone from [...]

Gratta vinci

Yet another lottery scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Maria Bocci” <maria-maria9@virgilio.it> Reply-To: <superenalott@virgilio.it> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:18:15 +0200 Subject: Gratta vinci Superenalotto Italia is the biggest lottery organization in the whole of Italy and with one hundred and thirty four million euro in the jackpot we are happy to tell you [...]

Another Tiresome Scam Email

And another scam gets by the spam filter… From: <manou_diaye@yahoo.co.jp> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:19:45 +0900 (JST) Subject: From Manouelle! To: (about 100 emails addresses listed) From Manouelle! Hello, I am Miss Manouelle N’Diaye, 21yrs old refugee from Ivory Coast . I have some inheritance, money (11,000.000.00) Eleven Million USDollars which my late Father [...]

Euro-Millions Lottery Results

Yet another scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Lottery Inc.” <yas123546@terra.es> Reply-To: <zursegu@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 09:16:28 +0200 Subject: Euro-Millions Lottery Results You are a winner of 1,125.000.00 Euros to claim your winnings contact your winning agent at Zurich Seguros Espana S.A. Contact Agent: Morris Moore / E-Mail: zursegu@gmail.com Winning Claims Requirements: [...]

Nothing to do with Radiohead

Another scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Last.fm” <no-reply@mailer.last.fm> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:58:24 +0000 Subject: Last.fm : IMPORTANT_MSG a partagé Radiohead avec vous Bonjour , IMPORTANT_MSG de Last.fm veut partager ça avec vous : Radiohead http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Radiohead — IMPORTANT_MSG a écrit : FROM MISS. MARIAM ARUNA. ATLANTIC CREDIT BANK ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE. call [...]

Working for God.

Yet another sad story from the Ivory Coast… From: <monica_h203@yahoo.co.jp> Why a Yahoo Japan email address? Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 19:35:56 +0900 (JST) Subject: Working for God. Dearest in Christ, With due respect and humanity, i wish to contact you under a humanitarian ground. I am Mrs Monica Williams, was born in Baltimore, Maryland [...]