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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ROBERT WEINER APRIL 8, 2013 Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo my late father Instructed me to seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management, hotel management or any other lucrative business venture. This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. Subject: Dear: Meeting details: more details ». | ROBERT WEINER AUGUST 15, 2012 Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money Even more people want to send me money. Here are a few examples: Sender: Authorize.Net (emailreceipts@authorize.net). Subject: Successful Credit Card Settlement Report. Text: Dear Customer, The following is your Credit Card settlement report for Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Transaction Volume Statistics for Settlement Batch dated 14-Aug-2012. Click. | | | | | |
| ROBERT WEINER MAY 16, 2010 Getting RSS Feeds Via Email However, I found a way to do this even for feeds that don't offer email delivery by playing with these instructions for setting up a Google FeedBurner subscription for one's own web site: [link]. FeedBurner's instructions are designed for someone posting an RSS feed link on a web site. There are a few RSS feeds I don't want to miss. | ROBERT WEINER JULY 11, 2011 Lame spam of the day: Notice from WesternUnion) : Account Deactivate. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. This one is kind of funny. First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence. Sender: Western-Union (customerservice@westernunion.com). | ROBERT WEINER MARCH 4, 2010 Phishing Scam: Habitat for Humanity fundraising To apply, Kindly forward the following info: to our Human Resource Department at the email listed below for further instructions. I received the following phishing email today. It's a variation on the "your email inbox is too large" scam I posted in June. There are so many things wrong with this pitch. hope no one falls for this. ==. | | | | | | | | |
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ROBERT WEINER | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 Lame spam of the day: targeting golfers
Text: If you haven't visited the brand new Golfers Insider website, then you are missing out on FREE golf instructional videos from top PGA teaching professionals like Martin Chuck, Mark Evershed, Eddie Merrins and Roger Fredericks. The latest lame spams in my inbox are aimed at golfers. How's that for micro-targeting? don't plan to find out. MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012  Lame spams of the day: ADP Notifications
Follow the instructions on the screen. Follow the instructions at the end of the renewal process. I've been seeing a variety of these recently. Since I don't use ADP it's obvious that they're spam, but others may fall for them. The first one below had no logo or other graphics, and used only plain, unformatted text. If you have any. MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011 Lame spam of the day: Acquire new EIN
link for instructions: [link]. This one seems both farfetched and lazy. They didn't bother with graphics or try to disguise the sender's email address or the destination of the hyperlink. And how many people would think they need an EIN (Federal employer ID) in the first place, much less a new one? Subject: Acquire new EIN. Scam Spam scam MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 Lame spam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center
Some are from people who paid the fee (it used to be $100, now it's $150) and in exchange received the freely available form and instructions about how to renew your FBN. It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. This one came via U.S. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. This is a solicitation. MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 Lame scam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center
Some are from people who paid the fee (it used to be $100, now it's $150) and in exchange received the freely available form and instructions about how to renew your FBN. It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. This one came via U.S. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. This is a solicitation. MORE >>
- Firefox error: sec_error_untrusted_issuer ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011
- The continuing saga of the new T400S ROBERT WEINER | THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010
- Lame spam of the day: IRS notices ROBERT WEINER | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
- Lame spams of the day: confirmation from [insert social network name] ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
- Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email ROBERT WEINER | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2009
- Optimize Your Web Pages ROBERT WEINER | WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009
- Security in-a-Box ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009
- Creating bookmarks and hyperlinks in Acrobat Pro 5 ROBERT WEINER | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
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