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YANL: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR OVERDUE FUNDS…

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Banks, Media, Public Interest, Web, YANL

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!)
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More on Webloyalty

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Subscription Scam, Web

Here’s some more things we found on the Web about complaints and actions taken against WebLoyalty along with links to the various sources.
Remember, they cannot scam you without the help and support of either unknowing or uncaring co-scammers, the organizations that pass along your credit card information on their Web sites. You could avoid doing [...]

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Dear Dumb Email Recipient: “THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION”

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Public Interest, Web, YANL

So you have inherited a zillion GBP from an unnamed person and your new “friend” Stephen Scott is sending you an email telling you that you can half of it. You are “entitle to 50%”.
Oh, Yes! The email is not addressed to you, it just says “THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION”
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THIS MAIL IS ONLY FOR THE OWNER OF THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Public Interest, Web, YANL

Here’s the latest in full color, brazenly cracked, scam email letters we have yet to receive.
Perhaps this crackpot thinks the seal of the USA Embassy Service will make it look official, as will the name and photo (withheld since it was hot linked from Google images) of someone, supposedly a US Embassy Officer.
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URGENT ATTENTION for “next of kin”

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Banks, Media, Public Interest, Web, YANL

This is more like it. We are back into the traditional YANL Spam Scam type of letter.
Funny how it seems refreshing to know that merely old spam hands are at the keyboard sending these out to unwitting email readers instead of slick, Internet-savvy Europeans who are more obvious in their pitches and seem at [...]

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