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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

This plain-text spam has no sender, subject, formatting, or graphics. After that comes what looks like an email header, then some spam text, then a bunch of blank lines, and finally, to cap the effort, random text from travel guides. Tired of the Tradtionial Phone System? Then a VOIP Phone System is for You.

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

These aren't as lame-looking as most of the spam I write about: they use the right logos, fonts, and typefaces. The giveaways are: 1) Hover over the links and see where they point before clicking (that's the best way to prevent phishing attacks and malware infections from spam). 3) I got a dozen of the Amazon spams. Learn More.

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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. Contact Person : Mr.Han Liang - Mobile phone : 0086-(0)13063813025. Adobe Systems Incorporated. 1: I got several of these. Unfortunately, no umbrellas were included.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. Greetings! {A

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Lame spams of the day: another roundup

Robert Weiner

Adobe Systems Incorporated. Phone Number. Sender: Willie Crawford [Willie@Acumlator.co.us] (also Lazy Cash System [LazyCashSystem@65.com]). another version said: "This page from Profectum Foundation has been forwarded to you by Lazy Cash System" Lazy Cash System. An almost identical spam with Invoice_P350.htm

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Lame spam of the day: Your Tax Payment ID [various #s] is failed.

Robert Weiner

Several mentions that you can call the EFTPS for help, but no phone number. EFTPS: The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. EFTPS: The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. I got four of these today. No graphics, butchered syntax. Do people really fall for these things? Subject: Your Tax Payment ID 05674565 is failed.

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Clearing the Air On Texting Changes

M+R

Until recently, cell phone carriers allowed organizations to get people to manually send millions of texts to folks who may not have opted-in (aka “peer-to-peer texting”). In 2020 this helped get tons of voters registered and out to vote…but it also led to consumer complaints about being spammed with too many texts.

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