Quote: Oldrocker @ October 17 2013, 9:16 PM BST

Why TF would he need to know my sex?

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He was asking if you wanted any

Quote: Harridan @ October 17 2013, 9:19 PM BST

He was asking if you wanted any

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No point though. Can't remember what to do.

Today I was offered an allegedly good deal on gold dust from somebody in Africa whose email address started with k.soloman@ ...

This one's novel . .

Hello friend,

I hope my email meets you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is Sgt Melissa Kim McCann. I am in the Engineering military unit here in Ba'qubah in Iraq,we have some amount of funds that we want to move out of the country.

My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust. It is oil money and legal.

Basically since we are working for the government we cannot keep these funds, but we want to transfer and move the funds to you, so that you can keep it for us in your safe account or an offshore account. But we are moving it through Diplomatic means, to send it to your house directly using Diplomatic Courier Service.

The most important thing is if we can trust you? Its weird since we just sending you this email randomly but in business, no risk, no reward, no pain and no gain. Once the funds get to you, you take your 20% out and keep our own 70%. Your own part of this deal is to find a safe place where the funds can be sent to. Our own part is sending it to you. If you are interested I will furnish you with more details. 10% will be set aside to reimburse you for the expenses you will incure in the process of this transaction so total percentage accrued to you in this transaction will be 30%.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times. Waiting for your urgent response. reply back if interested (sgtkim.mccann@xxxx.com)

This business is risk free.

Regards,
Sgt Melissa K. McCann

I just got this one and I don't know what to make of it.

it's not asking for money but has a down load.

We attempted to deliver your item at 07:40 AM on Oct 14th, 2013.
The delivery attempt failed because nobody was present at the shipping address, so this notification has been automatically sent.

If the parcel is not scheduled for redelivery or picked up within 72 hours, it will be returned to the sender.
Receipt Number: 8*****

Expected Delivery Date: Oct 14th, 2013

Class: Package Services

Service(s): Delivery Confirmation

Status: eNotification sent

Thank you,

© 2013 Copyright© UPS Inc. 2013. All Rights Reserved.
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Just put the number on UPS but thy didn't recognise it and I'm not expecting anything...

Seriously, Chappers? You actually put the number in to UPS? Do you have people who can look in on you during the winter?

I've just received the following email allegedly from the Weir Charitable Trust. Since this couple have indeed been very generous in donating from their millions, I hope nobody will be taken in by the email. Note the dodgy English ...

"Greetings & Congratulations!
We officially donate the sum of £1,000,000.00GBP to you. My wife and I were the biggest prize-winner of £161,163,000.00GBP in the 2011 Euro-Million Lottery Jackpot . We are officially donating the sum of £48,000,000.00GBP to charity and poverty elevation via our Weir Charitable Trust Program recently launched in 2013 and your email I.D happens to be among the 48 randomly selected email users submitted by the Micro-Soft/Google Management Team to benefit £1,000,000.00GBP each from the on-going Charity Scheme, globally! You are to respond in not more than 48 hours of receiving this communication (if this email I.D. is active) to immediately file for your prize processing. A new beneficiary will be chosen after 48 hours! Your Donation Code No. is "WCT31UK"; to avoid double claiming of the prize money, kindly quote your Donation Code No. "WCT31UK" on the subject line or within your return email. Congratulations again! Verify the authenticity of our Euro-Million Winnings at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/euromillions-lottery-winners-chris-and-colin-1585568
Cordially,Colin & Chris Weir(Weir Charitable Trust)"

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Why do you seem to get them all Bill?

Interesting First Direct stuff there. I use them, and their security is 'first' rate. The scammer seems to suggest a phone number very similar to FD's own helpline.
I have had bank spam (why does that sound vaguely filthy?) from banks I haven't registered with, a great clue. But the they are getting more wily, and any links or downloads are probably the source of the trouble. FD say that they never request upfront security info.

Quote: Chappers @ October 23 2013, 9:26 PM BST

Why do you seem to get them all Bill?

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I have an open-domain mailbox, so I actually get several hundred spam emails per day to invented addresses on my domain. At one stage it was several thousand per day.

A set of rules in Thunderbird gets rid of most of them down to about 5 to 20 spams per day, which I deal with by hand. I prefer to have to deal with some spam by hand rather than miss a real email.

Because I myself use multiple email addresses on my domains malware/spam to my legitimate addresses is often instantly recognised because I get multiple copies to different email addresses.

The really obvious ones I don't bother to post here, only the ones whih seem new & might catch someone out.

Quote: Fred C Dobbs @ October 23 2013, 9:39 PM BST

Interesting First Direct stuff there. I use them, and their security is 'first' rate. The scammer seems to suggest a phone number very similar to FD's own helpline.
I have had bank spam (why does that sound vaguely filthy?) from banks I haven't registered with, a great clue. But the they are getting more wily, and any links or downloads are probably the source of the trouble. FD say that they never request upfront security info.

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That first direct email above is almost all legit as far as I can tell. It does take you to the real anti-virus scan, thus 'cutting their own throats' ?
but in that attached HTML file, there is a browser exploit connected to the BACK button.

Not that a bank would ever send out such an email legitimately, I hope.

Quote: billwill @ October 24 2013, 1:21 AM BST

I prefer to have to deal with some spam by hand.

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That's one way of putting it.

Quote: Chappers @ October 24 2013, 8:57 PM BST

That's one way of putting it.

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