Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

Have you received a notice like this (even with your name or email address included)?
Did you think it was legit?
What was your first, correct clue?
(Not that you were loved anonymously, not that you were incredibly lucky, not that didn’t recall buying a ticket)
It clearly is a spamming email designed to get you to respond so [...]

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Looks like some school wunderkind has latched onto the Nigerian Scam idea and fashioned themselves a way to make money by email.
It is a scam, of that’s no doubt, starting with the fact that it was not addressed to me. There are many more clues, but we don’t want to show these nasty nerds how [...]

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Whew!
They get harder to read and understand, but clearly are not what they claim or say they are.
This is Yet another Nigerian Letter (YANL) scam e-mail example with the names unchanged to show the guilty.

Date: Sun, 18 May 2008
From: “pharelljones”

Subject: Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European Countries
To:
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They are entertaining, in a perverse way, these YANL scam letters.
We call this one a real doozey, too: Poor Daniel can’t seem to get his spaces right.
B u t, h e i s n o t a l o n e!
Still, I get the strange idea that Daniel is yelling. Do you?
Suckers must be getting [...]

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Didn’t know they played soccer in Europe & the UK.
Could this be possibly a scam?
Is the Dalai Lama a Buddhist? Do bears live in the woods?
Here’s a recently received “Hook” Soccer Scam email sample (with a few items modified or deleted to protect the gullible). But we retained the email addresses and names etc. [...]

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