Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

Below is an actual email letter. It’s short & sweet and aimed to trap an unwitting person into responding to a website other than a bank’s actual website.
We haven’t gone there, but are willing to believe that the phisher or scammer (probably both) has set up a web page to look very much like the [...]

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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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Yet Another example of an Nigerian Letter from Benin, or Czechoslovakia or France or wherever these scam dodos hang their computers and their supposed bank contacts and, most importantly, their impressive diplomatic turnel (whatever that my be).
Don’t fall for this my MY DEAR GOOD & TRUSTED FRIENDS!

Date: Sat, 10 July 2008
From: “joesphkarl3 joesphkarl3″
Subject: YOUR UGRENT [...]

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Here’s a genuine Nigerian Letter, not a Russian, Beninin or Asian imitation, This is a real scam email letter having the words relating to a genuine Nigerian Letter in it.
(YANL=Yet Another Nigerian Letter. There are many more here with seeming infinite variation in sales pitch or appeal that it is phenomenon of the Web!)
Note the [...]

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Here’s a tear-jerker letter, begging for our help. But she doesn’t know our name(s).
Could that be a clue that this is not what it purports to be and is instead one of those spam scam email letters like the nefarious Nigerian Letters (YANL)?
You bet it is.
Solution: Disbelieve everything from anyone you do not know in [...]

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