Robert Weiner

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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

Robert Weiner

This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. 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. Here are the details: Organizer: johnnymark3000@gmail.com. Guest list has been hidden at organizer''s request).

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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. And every 5 years I get an official-looking form from this organization telling me that "California Law Requires You To Renew Your Fictitious Business Name.". If you run a web search on the name of this organization you'll see lots of posts with words like "ripoff" and "scam".

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Lame spams of the day: ADP Notifications

Robert Weiner

Since I don't use ADP it's obvious that they're spam, but others may fall for them. If you have any questions, please contact your ADP Technical Support organization. I've been seeing a variety of these recently. The first one below had no logo or other graphics, and used only plain, unformatted text. Sender: ADPClientServices@adp.com.

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Lame spam of the day: They want me to donate $50 million?

Robert Weiner

I got your contact while making inquiry for reliable person that will stand for God for charitable organization and change children’s lives in any part of the word, the reason behind this missionary work is based on the fact that my husband and my four children died in the plane crash on the 7th, of September 1998. Subject: none.

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

Robert Weiner

The letter begins "Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. Dear Beneficiary, Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. This ended 3 days ago.

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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. And every 5 years I get an official-looking form from this organization telling me that "California Law Requires You To Renew Your Fictitious Business Name.". If you run a web search on the name of this organization you'll see lots of posts with words like "ripoff" and "scam".

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Phishing Scam: Habitat for Humanity fundraising

Robert Weiner

An organization like Habitat wouldn't look for employees by sending mass emails to "undisclosed recipients." Hello Prospective Employee, At HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL, we work hard to improve and provide training, technical expertise and support in fund-raising to the national organizations in all the regions of the world.

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