Major E-Mail Development

[Claude]

I received this overnight:

YOU HAVE WON WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER AWARD PROMOTION, KINDLY OPEN THE ATTACHMENT MASSAGE AND CONTACT THE TRANSFER MANAGER FOR YOUR WINNING PRIZE

I had no idea that massages can now be transferred via e-mail, no need to go to the health spa anymore...

[HansV]

Have you downloaded Windows Live Massager 2011 yet?

[StuartR]

Drat, I missed out again! I really must stop using this junk mail filter.

[ChrisGreaves]

I had no idea that massages can now be transferred via e-mail, no need to go to the health spa anymore...

Domage, Fromage.
Look again.
It's not a regular "massage", it's an "attachment massage".
From my experience these types of massage often end in costly divorces ....

[Claude]

Unbelievably, my luck seems never-ending today:

Please downlaod the attachment for more details about your wininng prize and contact our cliam agent with your infomation's
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information konfidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and unwarranted talking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Online Co-coordinator
Teresa Marie Roberts

I just hope that we don't have any unofficial personnel reading this for this could turn out nasty

[HansV]

Please keep your infomation's konfidential!

[Claude]

Please keep your infomation's konfidential!

sorry, my bad... Does this mean I have to share now ???

[garbsmj]

Yes, Claude, you do. We all have "unwarranted talking advantage" now.

[Bigaldoc]

And now "they're" trying to lure some die-hard American Democrats with this one:

• • Greetings To You,
    
    On behalf of the OBAMA FOUNDATION and UNITED NATIONS, we wish to notify
    you as a beneficiary of $500,000.00 USD in compensation of scam victims.
    This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the OBAMA
    FOUNDATION and UNITED NATIONS in Intercontinental Trade Bank to pay 10
    victims of scam $500,000.00 USD each.
    
    Your E-mail ID was listed and approved for this payment as one of the scam
    victims to be paid this amount.Do contact INTERCONTINENTAL TRADE
    BANK,INDONESIA,for verification and release of your $500,000.00 USD that
    we have deposited with the Bank.
    
    Managing Director of the INTERCONTINENTAL TRADE BANK,INDONESIA OFFICE.
    Name: Mr Spencer Walter
    
    Yours Faithfully,
    Mrs Sandra Simmons
    Coordinator.
    OBAMA FOUNDATION

(The highlighting is from me and I removed an email address of Mr. Walter, just in case!)

[Leif]

And now "they're" trying to lure some die-hard American Democrats....

I doubt it's political, they are happy to lure anyone greedy or naive enough to believe what they write.

[John Gray]

But for a mere $500,000.00 USD it's hardly worth getting out of bed!

That must be from a rather cheapskate scammer...

[Bigaldoc]

I doubt it's political, they are happy to lure anyone greedy or naive enough to believe what they write.

Oh you're 100% right on. It's not political at all but since the name Obama is so prominent they think it will immediately gain entrance to someone's "head."

You and I know, and I hope that 99.9% of everyone else knows, that these things are a joke. Thank Heaven for spam filters!

[ChrisGreaves]

I received this overnight:

I received this today:

E-Mail Spam Falls After Russian Crackdown

[Argus]

In one recent spam I found this:
"please delete spaces in the email address before sending it to us"
(Since the From/Send reply to isn't valid, they had to include another one in the mail).

Oh, anti-spam measures, sort of, in the spam.

Perhaps to avoid this:
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