(via email) 1 Billion Spammers Served PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 15, 2009 On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT) Project Honey Pot received its billionth email spam message. The message, a picture of which is displayed below, was a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) phishing scam. The spam email was sent by a bot running … Continue reading “Interesting Statistics from Project Honey Pot”
Category: Trolls / Spammers / Kooks / Clueless People
UK CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS
Yawn! Someone would have me believe I’ve won yet another lottery… From: “Troy Robinson” <robinsotr@einstein.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:49:52 -0500 Subject:EML/56-TF-8890776 Why would a so called “winning notification message” have an Albert Einstein Healthcare Network email address? REF: EML/56-TF-8890776 UK CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS National Office, 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London SW1W 9SP, REF: … Continue reading “UK CONVENTRY PROMOTIONS”
Gullible
Visacard
Yet another scam… From: “iKobo Inc.” <info@ikobo.com> Reply-To: ikobo_inc@yahoo.com.hk iKobo is apparently a real entity. While the from email address looks legit, the reply-to address is a Yahoo! Hong Kong email address. The scammer if hoping the victim will naively reply to this email. Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:56:56 +0200 Subject: NOTIFICATION NOTIFICATION? Notification … Continue reading “Visacard”
250,000
Guestbook Scam
A scam gets by the comment spam filters and shows up on my guestbook… Dearest One I am very sorry to bother you with my plight. Please know that it’s not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God. After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve … Continue reading “Guestbook Scam”
Meta Scam
A new twist on the old Nigerian scam… From: PETERSON PHILIP <ppunocompensation@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:32 -0700 Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/FINPLC/06654/09 ($3.5Million USD) United Nations Organization Office of PETERSON PHILIP Director International Fraud Surveillance and Control. New York, NY 10027 Notice the absence of a complete address (no street address, office, etc.). Also, … Continue reading “Meta Scam”
Ignorant or Lying
UN Grant Scam
A scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Ayuntamiento de Loporzano” <aytoloporzano@aragon.es> Reply-To: <stepgrstep@live.com.my> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:25:18 +0800 Subject: Re: The “from” address is apparently from Malaysia and the “reply-to” is apparently from Spain – neither of which appear to be from any kind of UN entity. One would think someone from … Continue reading “UN Grant Scam”
Gratta vinci
Yet another lottery scam gets by the spam filter… From: “Maria Bocci” <maria-maria9@virgilio.it> Reply-To: <superenalott@virgilio.it> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:18:15 +0200 Subject: Gratta vinci Superenalotto Italia is the biggest lottery organization in the whole of Italy and with one hundred and thirty four million euro in the jackpot we are happy to tell you … Continue reading “Gratta vinci”