Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Well, we all hate spams. I too hate spams. But it seems that there is no stopping to these spams. These spams seems to have invaded my mailbox. Now, in the last weeek or two, I have received some of the most shocking spams. Today in this post, I am going to share some of those spams publicly. Just go through these spams and see how it has all been penned down to tickle one's brain.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The latest spam received on 6th Oct, 2009
From Yasirah Bare -
Dearest,
My dear I am writing this mail with tears and sadness and pains. I know it will come to you as a suprise since we haven't known or come across each other before, but kindly bear with me at this moment. I have a special reason why I decided to contact you. My situation at hand is miserable but I trust in God and hope you will be of my help. My name is Yasirah Ibrahima Baré 25years old girl and I held from Republic of Niger the daughter of Late General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara the former President of the Republic of Niger who was ambushed and killed by dissident soldiers at the military airport in the capital, Niamey with his driver and a former Prefect.. You can see more detail about my late father here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2463000/2463927.stm
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father. Meanwhile I wanted to travel to Europe, but she hide away my international passport and other valuable documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my father's File which contained important documents. I am presently staying in the Mission camp in Burkina Faso.
I am seeking for longterm relationship and investment assistance. My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of USD$5.8 Million in one bank in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin. I had contacted the Bank to clear the deposit but the Branch Manager told me that being a refugee, my status according to the local law does not authorize me to carry out the operation. However, he advised me to provide a trustee who will stand on my behalf. I had wanted to inform my stepmother about this deposit but I am afraid that she will not offer me anything after the release of the money. Therefore, I decide to seek for your help in transferring the money into your bank account while I will relocate to your country and settle down with you. I have my fathers death certificate and the account number which I will give you as soon as you indicated your interest to help me.
It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total money for your assistance and the balance shall be my investment in any profitable venture which you will recommend to me as have no any idea about foreign investment. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.
Thanking you a lot in anticipation of your quick response. I will send you my photos in my next email.
Yours Sincerely
Yasirah Ibrahima Bare
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This spam received on Sep22,2009
My Dearest one .
How are you doing i hope you are feeling fine?It was very great when i got your profiles and i felt a great interested on you which really gave me a nice pleasure to communicate with you if you will have the same feelings with me contact me so that i will send you my pictures and tell you more about me as soon as i read from you i wish you best of all of good luck and have a nice day as i am waiting to hear from you soonest.yours lovely one to be. Victoria.
I am miss Tracy,i do pray that this email meets you well,Though we haven't met or seen each other before but i believe that nature has a way of Bringing people together for a Particular Purpose.if you need a female friend or pen pal.contact me back
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This spam received on Sep12,2009
From Elvira Ninita
Good Day
However l will like you to be considerate in reading this, with trust l decided to get in touch with you ,l am Mrs. Elvira Ninita from Fiji Island, my husband was top government official before his death due to heart attack, because of government problem with new ruling government about financial fund. Before his death he told me that he made a deposit of fund ($5.470 000 00) Five Million Four Hundred and seventy Thousand in a security company, which the content of the box was not disclose to security company to secure the money in the box and the country have political.crisis for years now. When he deposited the box he declared to security company the content of the box was family Valuables and it belongs to his foreign partner.
Now, my main reason of contacting you is to assist me to claim this box from the security company and be in partnership in investing this money in your country, also in my next mail I will send to you all the details of these transactions and also the contact of the security company.
Hoping to see your reply.
Mrs Elvira Ninita
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I swear, I do not know anyone from these people. How did they get my email id - is still puzzling me :(
This entry was posted on October 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm, and is filed under
Miscellaneous
. Follow any responses to this post through
RSS. You can
leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
October 7, 2009 9:40 PM
Unfortunately, they have targeted me too. I simply delete automatically email addresses that I am not familiar with.
October 7, 2009 10:53 PM
oh oh i had my fair share of these junks a few months back and i had to abandon my email box for some months without clearing the inbox, that way the junks get bounced off to the sender i presume. And after some months it stopped and i could reclaim reuse of my email address. Best thing for you is to ignore those junks.
October 8, 2009 6:49 AM
Hi Bro. Good to see you back. I hope you are now feeling better and in good health 8-) Now and with regards to these spams, believe or not but I have also received some of them and they are fun to read (that's it though). The reason why I say its fun is because they are getting more sophisticated each day and if we are not careful, we will probably even end up in jail:) Imagine, just for being a trustee and you receive more than one million bucks. Why the hell bother with blogging for money, hahaha.
October 8, 2009 7:46 AM
it's ok my friend. I understand. I pray that you'll feel better soon. thank you for your nice comment. I am still learning how to cook. I am not good in it because mostly who does cooking when I am still young was my brothers and sisters. They're a good cook but not me> :(
October 8, 2009 8:41 AM
Sigh.... I'm also receiving those kind of spam messages Aswani almost everyday. I know it would happen because i'm so public. But i was wondering why its happening to you when the fact, you're very careful when it comes to giving your email. I think you have misplaced your email id somewhere else and it so happens that these spammers had a handful of it. Just keep on deleting the spam messages Aswani :) That's what i do. I hope these spammers will stop from sending you unsolicited emails. Take care Aswani.
October 8, 2009 9:20 AM
Thanks Deoangel for the comment. Yes, I also do it but then also I keep on getting such mails. I think I need to create a more strong spam filter:-P
October 8, 2009 9:22 AM
Thanks bro for the visit and the comment. Yes, its always better to ignore such mails. Thanks again for the advice :)
October 8, 2009 9:26 AM
Yeah bro, whatever may be, its always fun to read such mails. Its one of the reasons why I decided to share these spams. One million bucks just being a trustee..wow!! would be a dream come true for anyone..lol;)
October 8, 2009 9:28 AM
Thanks Sam. Ok, cooking is your problem. Well, practice makes man perfect. Hope you will be a perfect cook very soon after practicing more and more. All the best:)
October 8, 2009 9:32 AM
Hey, Thanks sis for the comment. Yeah, it can be shocking for anyone out there. But then I believe I am to be blamed for it to some extent. I've been sharing my email id with almost anyone..even if he or she is unknown to me. Need to be more serious *DONT_KNOW*
October 8, 2009 12:52 PM
These emails are common i get them almost every day i get one recently telling me i have won $50,000 and i need to pay $25 dollors before they can make the cheque out to me This was my reply "You can take $1000 out of the money and send the rest to me" never got any reply
October 8, 2009 1:01 PM
Hehehe..good one bro:-P
October 8, 2009 2:21 PM
Go to Settings>Filter>Create a filter. At the top on the right-hand side there's a field labeled -"Has the words." Type in - Is:spam. That will auto-delete anything that Gmail normally sends to the spam folder. It will end up in your trash folder, which will auto-delete in 30 days. Not a fix for spam, but at least you never have to see it. That is unless you spend time rooting around in your trash.
October 8, 2009 2:25 PM
Thanks Jim! bty, where are you these days O:-)
October 8, 2009 3:42 PM
i am really shocked to see the spam mail and i too get so much spam to my inbox, all we have to do it just ignore it . NOTE : Aswin don't spoil your mental health by reading these spams O:-) :-P... just kidding .... take care
October 8, 2009 3:46 PM
Hehehehe..Thanks Rajesh. Yes, I do read it...just to enjoy it all for a second :-P
October 8, 2009 3:50 PM
Nice idea for a new post.. I never read my spam mails ... so after reading them here I got at least some idea as to what they contain :)
October 8, 2009 3:59 PM
IC..Thanks Niharika for your comment :)
October 8, 2009 10:01 PM
hello my friend aswani. Well, like you i do hate spam. i got an email same as yours how many times already. but i just ignored it and put in spam box and I didn't bother to open it. that's why i am thinking to get a new email account. sorry, but yahoo now have a bunch of spams everyday. I am starting to not liking it. Anyway, i just want to say thank you so much my dear friend for always supporting me and my simple blog. another thing in blogcatalog i am not that familiar yet with the system. I don't even know how to add a friend and etc... :( so, i guess i your not in my friends list yet. can you guide me how? it 's my pleasure if you could. :) by the way, how's everything? are feeling better now? take care of your health always. God bless my friend. I will not forget you ever. In my more than 3 months here in blogging. I always remember you because your the very first one who followed my blog and give me an inpirational messages even if i know that my blog is nothing much to talk about hehehe. God bless and be safe always
October 8, 2009 10:11 PM
Aswani-
I'm around from time to time. Still working on my other site trying to get
some decent traffic. Hope all is well with you.
-Jim
October 8, 2009 10:28 PM
it's me Lazyking who think it's disturbing. lol
October 8, 2009 10:28 PM
i aggree, very disturbing
October 9, 2009 9:38 AM
Ok Jim, I can understand. Yes, I am doing great. Just been feeling more better now. Keep in touch and have a nice day ahead:)
October 9, 2009 9:47 AM
Hey Sam, you have a nice little but useful blog. I don't know about others but I like your blog. I will keep visiting. No probs..Keep it up and Keep in touch :)
October 9, 2009 9:48 AM
O:-)
October 9, 2009 9:48 AM
:-P
October 10, 2009 5:29 PM
Hi Aswani, i think these types of mails we get everyday. I just delete them without going through the link.
I can imagine that if any body of us would have received the prized money........... lol....
October 10, 2009 6:48 PM
Yes, Shabnam..I am also doing the same thing now. I have created more strong spam filter now to keep check on such mails. I am expecting it to work much better for me.
October 10, 2009 8:03 PM
Ha ha ha... this is funny to the core..
I got millions of spam mails ! :)
Some of my friends also got spam comments ... like this...
October 11, 2009 1:35 AM
Aswani
i just ignore the spam, mail is full of spam.
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/
October 11, 2009 12:24 PM
Yes Pradeep, its quite funny than disturbing :-P
October 11, 2009 12:24 PM
Hey, thanks SM for the comment:)
October 11, 2009 6:25 PM
Even my Gmail gets spammed. Good thing is that Gmail wouldn't let them through and hold them in a separate inbox. It will worry me if they start cramming my regular inbox. Then it will be hard to sift through those emails to get to the legit ones.
I haven't looked for a long time, but the ones you've quoted - they're getting creative with their story lines, I see. Only thing is we know better. 8-)
October 11, 2009 8:03 PM
Thanks Jan for your first ever visit to this blog. Really appreciated. Yeah, these spams are real headache for anyone. Better to have more strong spam filter to prevent them from cramming your inbox.
October 13, 2009 8:18 PM
Yep, I received the investment and love e-mails. I posted both of them at my blog and added my editorial comments. One of my readers mentioned that she knew someone who actually got involved with one of the investment e-mail scams. I guess people are pretty desperate now. However, the poorly worded e-mail should have tipped them off and the fact that it originated from Rwanda.
Lauren
October 14, 2009 10:33 AM
Yes, I agree that these spam mails are quite tempting. People can become an easy prey to such mails. Better to stay alert and delete such mails immediately once received8-)
October 14, 2009 6:10 PM
I'm just waiting for the triple-your-money-back guarantee on those products designed to grow and enlarge body parts I don't have. I'm going to retire young.
Or be really horrified if one of them actually WORKS.
You should visit http://419eater.com/ - it's hilarious. (But do heed their warnings; it's probably best if you DON'T try this at home. Or, as a Mom would say, "Don't play with the nasty criminals, Junior. They don't like it when you poke them with that stick.")
October 14, 2009 6:23 PM
Lol ;)Thank you holly for such interesting comment. Really appreciated. You are such an interesting personality. Feels so glad to know you. Keep smiling and Keep in touch:)
October 24, 2009 11:00 AM
Liked to see your PR 4 Blog.
Very Informative. Keep Going.
October 24, 2009 12:07 PM
Thank you Techprism. Will keep going. No probs..Keep in touch :)