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Ready to Declutter Your Digital Life?

The MatrixFiles

I hesitate to press Spam on most of the messages I receive because most are legit businesses and many are newsletters I subscribed to a while back. Often, I needed the files for something quick and then never again. But those files stayed in Downloads. appeared first on The MatriX Files. How about you?

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

Here's a random selection of strange and/or lame spams I've received recently. This one may not be spam, but I'm not going to click and find out. Text: Good day, as promised,(Internet Explorer File). 7: I always click on unexpected files from unknown senders with gibberish addresses. 1: I got several of these.

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Lame spam of the day: self-identified spam

Robert Weiner

This message didn't come from my anti-spam software and my ISP says it didn't come from theirs. Subject: **SPAM ** Re: µ¹.§A¤£°µ§@ª½±µ-»ù¨C¤ù¥u­n26¤¸. Text: Spam detection software, running on the system "nas", has. identified this incoming email as possible spam. To: ruhit_ray@hotmail.com. A¤£°µ§@ª½±µ-»ù¨C¤ù¥u­n26¤¸.

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Lame spams of the day: messages from key.com

Robert Weiner

I received seven copies of two versions of this spam. The attached file contains the encrypted message that you have received. To read the encrypted message, complete the following steps: - Double-click the encrypted message file attachment to download the file to your computer. Plain text, no formatting, no logos.

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Lame spams of the day: another roundup

Robert Weiner

An almost identical spam with Invoice_P350.htm Internet Explorer file). Subject: You have been sent a file (Filename: Robert-1421215.pdf). Text: Sendspace File Delivery Notification: You've got a file called Robert-14281.pdf, You can use the following link to retrieve your file: Download Link. pdf, (886.78

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Lame spams of the day: LinkedIn phishing

Robert Weiner

The recent theft of passwords from LinkedIn prompted me to post these spams masquerading as messages from that firm. You can find details in the attached file.(Internet Internet Explorer file). The first one made no attempt beyond the Sender name to look like it came from LinkedIn. Subject: Fwd: Wire Transfer (65483QW63).

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Lame spam of the day: ATM MASTER CARD PAYMENT

Robert Weiner

Today's lame spam has so many red flags possible. WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR CLAIM FILE AND THUS CONFIRMED YOUR CLAIM TO BE GENUINE AND AUTHENTIC. Sender is WILLIAM AYODELE but the email address is vincent@w1385bl1o.homepage.t-online.de READ THE ATTACHED MESSAGE AND REPLY ASAP. Yes, it's all caps.

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