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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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FOU YOUR KIND ATTENTION (Foo on YARL?)

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

At Last! The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming into the YANL spam scam game.
Maybe we should already rename it the YARL, for Yet Another Russian Letter!
Same Pitch. Same dumb appeal to greed. Similar misunderstanding of the English language
If I were a Nigerian, I’d be insulted.
But we only have the YANL category, so, [...]

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Does Dhl Courier deliver company have my parkage?

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Banks, Public Interest, Web, YANL

There seems to be no end to these spam YANL emails.
Here’s yet another one from my Befactorial, MIKEBEAN or Mr Frank Bello in Poland, Mexico or Benin. Read it and laugh, but learn…it ain’t real - he just wants your $125 up front and then a means to engage you and me and bleed [...]

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