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Lame spam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center

Robert Weiner

It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. 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. This one came via U.S.

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Lame scam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center

Robert Weiner

It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. 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. This one came via U.S.

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

Order Information: E-mail Address: robert@rlweiner.com. Kurtis-Walls@ googlemail.com Instructions to seller. You haven't entered any instructions. _firstname}{la}{_lastname}@{lb} instructions to {lc}. you haven't entered any instructions. Respective Amazon.com Customer, Thanks for your order, robert@rlweiner.com!

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Lame spams of the day: ADP Notifications

Robert Weiner

Text: This e-mail has been sent from an automated system. Follow the instructions on the screen. Follow the instructions at the end of the renewal process. Please do not respond or reply to this automated e-mail. The first one below had no logo or other graphics, and used only plain, unformatted text. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY.

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Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money

Robert Weiner

If you have any questions regarding this settlement report, please contact us by Secure Mail or you can call Customer Support at 1-877-447-3938. BASED ON THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED NOT TO RESPOND TO ANY MAIL OR FAX CONCERNING YOUR FUND FROM ANY BODY WHO CLAIM TO BE OR YOUR AGENT AS YOUR PAYMENT IS NOW READY TO BE TRANSFERRED IMMEDIATELY.

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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

Robert Weiner

My Outlook spam filter (SpamBayes) doesn''t seem to look at meeting invitations, and it also slipped past the SpamAssassin filter on my mail server. This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. Consequently I got a notification of an upcoming meeting with the spammer. This thread shows that the problem has been around for a while.

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