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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. 2) To serve as my guardian and of this fund since I am only 22years. (3) Scam Spam' USD($4.500,000) and euros 750,000.00

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Lame spams of the day: eBay and Paypal transfers

Robert Weiner

First clue it's spam: when you get 10 versions of the same message. Your funds are now available. Dear robert@rlweiner.com, The funds from this eBay payment are now available for use. The subjects were: Your Ebay funds are cleared. Your Ebay funds transfer confirmation. Your Ebay transaction is cleared.

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Lame Spam of the Day: willing to invest.

Robert Weiner

I'm charmed by the tortured grammar in this spam. the project/investment AND provide fund as soft loan for percentage. the project/investment AND provide fund as soft loan for percentage. But would it have been too hard to at least make the sending email address (@gmail) match the reply-to address (@yahoo)? interest.

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Lame spam of the day: Who Is She To You?

Robert Weiner

This type of phishing spam is seldom worth a glance, but I was drawn in by the subject line and the random capitalization. This is to Notify You that Your Over Due Inheritance Funds has been Gazetted to be Released to You Via The Foreign Remittance Department Of Our Brunext Secure Vault And Cargo Company London.

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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. Subject: ADP Funding Notification - Debit Draft. 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: Wrong transaction from your credit card in The Palmer House Hilton

Robert Weiner

What's the chance that this spam will hit someone who actually stayed at the hotel recently? For the return of funds please contact your bank and fill information in the attached form. Well, first, I didn't stay at the Palmer House Hilton. Click here for info on varations on this theme. Total sum of decommissioning is $1266.

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Lame spam of the day: Money from Homeland Security

Robert Weiner

are witting to inform you that you have a pending transaction to complete.You are by this notice required to complete the requirements for claiming your funds in our custody.Your fund value $300,000.00 Greeting from Home Land security Emergency Management Georgia U.S.A.We is coming from. Email Address: home.land.security.ga@secretarias.com.

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