Spams, Scams, Phishers and Hoaxes

Spams, Scams, Viruses, Hoaxes,
and Phishing Expeditions rev. 01.21.2008

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Check out these links before you respond to that email
or start entering personal information into that web-page's form ! ........

A great place to start: the Anti-Phishing Working Group
Wells Fargo
CitiBank.com: (click the image to go their home page, then click their link.)
Identity Theft 911 .com

Another great place to start: ICYouSee: T is for Thinking, and make sure you take the quiz at the bottom....

If you get anything from these guys in emails,
just clicking their link automatically gives your agreement to follow-up emails from all of their client companies,
and I do mean all! http://www.soueich.com .......... BEWARE!!!!! Get this: Privacy Policy - Terms and Conditions of this Email:
This notice outlines the privacy policies associated with his Email. By clicking any image and/or text link in this Email (excluding the removal link), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. As such, you are representing that you have the authority and are authorizing http://www.soueich.com and/or any of its business associates to contact you via email, postal mail, or telephonically with information stored in the http://www.soueich.com database.
Changes to the Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time.

Time to phone your State Attorney General? I already did.

Check out these links before you forward that email ! ........

Snopes.com for
Urban Legends Sophos.com UrbanLegends.com/ TruthOrFiction.com

TruthMiners.com HoaxBusters
Homepage at CIAC Urban Folklore
[yes, ducks' quacks do echo....] InterGov ScamWatch
Directory

Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website A Hilarious Takeoff on the Nigerian Scams More on the many versions of the Nigerian scam. More ScamInfo http://www.scamwatch.com/

Vmyths.com
Computer Virus Myths ICSA Virus
Hoax Lists "The Truth About email Viruses,
at www.gerlitz.com Virus Hoax List at
McAfee.com

The Truth about e-mail chain letters Learn about Spoofing, Phishing, etc. from eBay® A wealth of links to anti-spam
and anti-scam organizations By the way, Stella really shouldn't have gotten burned....

01.21.2008... From the Land Of The Living Brain-Dead...

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Just [Unknown Tag *$$come* Please Fix] And [Unknown Tag *$$most* Please Fix] 
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When you see [Unknown Tag *$$magic* Please Fix] Show Without paying any penny


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No, I'm not making this up.... Lousy programmers, Lousy spammers... Rot in Hell...

12.05.2007: If you get a message like this, clicking the link will get you a virus, a trojan or spam. Delete before reading!

If the message will not displayed [sic] automatically, follow the link to read the delivered message. Received message is available at:

Unless you'd like to wrtie and tell them that they're not only annoying, they're freaking illiterates! :)

If you get the following message in email, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. It contains a virus, and the entire message is a "spoof." It is NOT from PayPal.
"Dear PayPal member,
We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired [sic] in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.
To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.
IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.
Thank you for using PayPal."
Norton AntiVirus removed the attachment: www.paypal.com.pif.
The attachment was infected with the W32.Mimail.J@mm virus.

Africa Strikes Again... beware when selling your car on the Internet.... added 11.23.03

The reply message you'd love to get....
Date: 11/24/02:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients.
This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: BizBuilders2@themail.com SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host mail.oemmail.com [216.204.151.99]: 550 This recipient is a known
spammer and cannot send or receive email.

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Snopes.com for Urban Legends	Sophos.com	UrbanLegends.com/	TruthOrFiction.com
TruthMiners.com	HoaxBusters Homepage at CIAC	Urban Folklore [yes, ducks' quacks do echo....]	InterGov ScamWatch Directory
Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website	A Hilarious Takeoff on the Nigerian Scams	More on the many versions of the Nigerian scam.	More ScamInfo http://www.scamwatch.com/
Vmyths.com Computer Virus Myths	ICSA Virus Hoax Lists	"The Truth About email Viruses, at www.gerlitz.com	Virus Hoax List at McAfee.com
The Truth about e-mail chain letters	Learn about Spoofing, Phishing, etc. from eBay®	A wealth of links to anti-spam and anti-scam organizations	By the way, Stella really shouldn't have gotten burned....