Robert Weiner

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Lame spam of the day: America Airlines ticket order

Robert Weiner

This one caught my eye for a second. I thought, "I don't remember booking anything with American lately." The lazy spammer didn't even bother to include any graphics to make it look official. Sender: American Airlines (information-no77537@aa.com). Subject: Your Order##91991988. Text: Dear Customer, FLIGHT NUMBER 984. ELECTRONIC 746879098.

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Lame spams of the day: eBay and Paypal transfers

Robert Weiner

First clue it's spam: when you get 10 versions of the same message. Bank account BANK OF AMERICA. I got a ton of these earlier this week. I particularly like the randomized "buyer emails" like lorem.eget.mollis@tinciduntDonecvitae.ca. Your funds are now available. Transaction ID 38278764688952115. Total amount transferred $ 279.69.

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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious -- preying on disaster victims (one can hope they're just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). Sender: Ban ki Moon (Info@cast.net). Subject: United Nations Headquarters.

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Lame spam of the day: Please provide your tax information

Robert Weiner

onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com) -- it claims to come from Intuit, but the return address is at Bank of America. Intuit's security center lists lots of these, but not the two I got this week. Sender: INTUIT INC. Subject: Please provide your tax information. (a a second version had an exclamation point before the period).

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Lame spam of the day: You are highly needed

Robert Weiner

As a result of this, I have to escape and stayed behind to make sure that I am able to get these boxes out before coming to America, knowingly, that if I am able to get this done I will live a better life. The reason for this is that I deposited two consignment boxes with a security company in Iraq.

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Lame spam of the day: FBI and Nigeria still want to send me money

Robert Weiner

System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically. selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum. of $2.4million USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the. money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this.

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