I'm so glad you could stop by. This is my personal blog of daily life and my journey through life. You will find a strong emphasis on family and friends as well as finding my ancestors through genealogy. Unlike my other blogs this blog is more of a catch-all so any topic is fair game.
Have you ever wondered how spam originates? How do spammers get your email address in the first place? Well that is quite a simple answer. Every time you fill out an online form that includes your email address the address goes onto that company's or website's email list. At some point some of these companies and websites sell their email lists to Mr. Spammer, a pimply faced adolescent loner with coke bottle glasses who's only source of attention is his mommy's ISP notifying her of the latest complaint against her account. And that's how spam originates.
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From: strewn
To: xxxxx@yahoo.co.jp; xxxxx@sussex.ac.uk; xxxxx@mymail.net; xxxxx@allenfg.com
Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 11:39:58 AM
Subject: business mailing lists
Here's a list package on sale this week only:
Criminal Attorneys - 142,906 total records, 99,857 emails
USA Lawyers Database - 269,787 records with 235,244 emails
Financial Planners Database - 148,857 records all with emails
Finance and Money Professionals Database - 116,568 records all with emails
All complete lists above: $299
There are more list packages also available for consumer, healthcare, business and more. Contact me here for more info or to get samples: Sammie.Poe@newbusinesshorizon.co.cc
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Garden Gnome
©2006-2010
We are used to getting telemarketer calls aka phone spamming and email spam but imagine our surprise when my husband received a letter from Malaysia! Since we know no one in Malaysia it came as a great surprise that he was being contacted by Francis Lee who is an Account Manager with United Overseas Bank of Malaysia. Well that fancy title certainly got our attention! Apparently one of my husband's long lost relatives had the misfortune of dying in Malaysia without having the chance to spend his or her's fairly large sum of money. We really do feel bad about this as we always make it a priority to attend any weddings, funerals and those types of special events. Had we know we would have been there! Unfortunately we find out this way through Francis Lee who certainly does have my husband's best interests at heart. He wants to get my husband's long lost relatives savings to my husband. Isn't that so sweet of him? My husband needs to email him at francisllee@aol.com to get the information how to proceed to get this substantial windfall.
And you dear readers are in luck today as you get 2 pictures instead of one. Here is a scan of the actual letter and the envelope it came in:
For those wondering, no my husband did not fall for this glorified spam. Instead the letter and envelope was scanned then turned over to the local police department. These types of letters do get through occasionally and the really sad thing about some people will ultimately fall for this scam thinking it is real. Turning this type of communication over to the police is one way to help prevent others from being scammed.
Garden Gnome
©2006-2010
