who wouldn’t get spam emails? i am going to post here the various kinds of spam emails i got in my spam folder.and ill tell you how to confirm if it is a spam or not.have a look at it ,its fun to read..
how to confirm if it is spam or not?
i am using gmail ,the steps may differ for different providers.(i havent tried others).
open the email as you recieve it.click on the arrow pointing down at the top right.you will see a list of options as shown above.click on show original.
when you click on show original ,you will see a text page like shown above.in that page ,search for “from” and notice the email address.if you are kinda familiar with it ,you can trust them.
spam 1:
SERIAL No: S/N-5368/02
REF No: UK/9420X2/68/OSY
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369/OSY
TICKET No: 56475600545188
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83
Dear Lucky Winner,
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-
mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet,You have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling).Please
fill the form below and send it to our payment department with the contact
given below:
Contact Person: John Campbell
Tell: +447045721627
Email: uknloffice22@yahoo.com.hk
Email: uknloffice22@yahoo.com.hk
PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY
(4) SEX
(6) OCCUPATION
(7) TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8) AGE
(9) PRESENT COUNTRY
Mrs Caroline Bryan.
FOR UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
spam 2:
Im a beautiful girl, brunette with brown eyes, and I’m looking for an intelligent man to communicate by e-mail, Skype, or on real dates!
I have registered my profile at: *&^%$cewomen7.com/?idAff=5
spam 3:
From: WORLD CUP LOTTERY <worldcup308@hotmail.com>
To: worldcup308@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2006 3:27:36 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! CONGRATULATION!!! CONGRATULATION!!!
From : Lotto Manager . Universal Lottery
South Africa.
2010 World cup lottery online 2006
Lottery Headquarters: 210-211 Universal Building
Parkhaust, Balfour Unit 1440
Johannesburg, South Africa
Batch: ( 18/006/1094/LIPDA/SL.)
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING:
We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: (7017-4162-1018) with ! Serial number (MH4710019)Drew the winning NO: (80, 35, 11, 72, 90, 41 and Bonus number 1 ), and Insurance number (KISCS433/2010SNLP/2005) which subsequently on you the lottery award in the 2nd category.
Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,100,000.00 (Two million, One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file Number (KPC/9030108308/03). This is from a total cash prize of US ($200,000,000.00)shared among the first 200 Hundred and lucky winners in this category world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon.
In view of this, your U.S ($2,100,000.00 (Two Million, One Hundred United States Dollars) would be released to you by the bank immediately they commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact us.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web-site through computer draw system and extracted from over (100,000,00) companies and individual emails address. The lottery programe took place to promote south africa (2010 world cup award).
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements (Please be warned) .
To file for your claim, please contact the Zonal Co ordinator immediately for verifications of your winning, for quick and urgent release of your fund, his contact information are as follows:
Name: Mr. OWEN DOUGLAS
Direct Line : 27 83 880 1996
E-mail : southafricanclaimoffice2@yahoo.com
Please be informed that all winning Prize must be claimed on or before 30 days of this notification. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference /batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has succesfully won this competition.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
signed: President Nelson Mandela (chairman)
Molefi OLIPHANT (President)
Chief Operations Officer
Albert MOKOENA
Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAAN.
N.B/Call the Zonal co ordinator for urgent verification of your cliam.
Thank you for your co-operation
Susan GLADWIN (Mrs)
(P R O)
South African Worldcup Lottery organization.
Copyright 1994-2006 The South Africa National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service – Guideline
77635 476378 255667460
spam 4:
spammers just got more wise(but not more than spam filter).now i am receiving spam whose ‘from ” field contains my email address and “to” field also contains my email address. and they are claiming that i am receiving mails because i have subscribed to msn subscriptions. check out the body…
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3 Comments
thanks for the information
Wow! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my blog something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Regards, Timur I. Alhimenkov
sure