Robert Weiner

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Year-end donation processing

Robert Weiner

Let's say the following donations will be processed by different nonprofits in the United States on Jan. 2, 2012: A check mailed (and postmarked) on December 29th that arrived in the office on January 2nd. A voice mail donation via credit card left December 29 (yes, it happens). A staff member heard the message on Jan.

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

Order Information: E-mail Address: robert@rlweiner.com. United States. United States Shipping details. united states shipping details. Respective Amazon.com Customer, Thanks for your order, robert@rlweiner.com! Did you know you can view and edit your orders online, 24 hours a day? Visit Your Account.

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Lame spams of the day: Amazon HDTV shipments

Robert Weiner

The most amusing part is that the shipping address is a mail merge field with my email address inserted. United States. I got 3 versions of this today. I'm sure that will produce some funny results for people with more creative email addresses. I don't see any posts about what the links do and don't intend to find out.

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

Robert Weiner

Attenuation, This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you. System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically. of $2.4million USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of. System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically. Kindly look.

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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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Lame spam of the day: FBI & Nigerian Govt want to send me money

Robert Weiner

Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via UPS. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Even if you do not have a bank account. Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Yours sincerely, NICHOLAS STORY. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

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