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Spam sometimes

This was the entire content of a spam mail which just slipped through my filters (with subject “credit inquiry and information”):

I can only make number of organisations. your complaint because

(At least in plain text and again in HTML created by MS Word.)

Is that Dadaism yet?

Addendum: Another one arrived:

your splits which details the you would be

Someone who likes you sends you this spam

Alright, it rather said “invitation” in the subject (in German) – and it was just another of these spam mails (which slipped through my filter, otherwise I hadn’t noticed it anyway) for some private porn film sites that claim to pay you money.

These lines, though, I “liked” somehow (emphasis and translation mine):

Stop further info here:

stornomailversand@gmail.com

(Recently, there were errors here, which we want to apologize for.)

Yeah, sure, as if it were an accident that you fuckin’ spammers keep throwing around your garbage!

:motz:

Who’s reading something like that?

A spam mail that slipped through my filter today:

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) WIRE/TELEX DEPARTMENT TINUBU SQUARE LAGOS NIGERIA. REPLY TO THIS EMAIL:[…] ATTENTION:SIR/MADAM, THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR OVER DUE INHERITANCE FUNDS HAS BEEN GAZETTED TO BE RELEASED, VIA KEY TESTED TELEX TRANSFER (KTT) DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT,AS WE ARE PROCESSING THIS IMMEDIATE FUND RELEASE,WE RECEIVED AN ORDER TO EFFECT TRANSFER THAT YOU ARE AWARE BY YOUR PARTNER. BELOW IS THE BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATIONS SUBMITTED BY HIM MR. ALEX K[…] OF […]Denver, Colorado 80233 USA Phone-303-[…] FOR THE FUND TRANSFER OF $10.5MILLION USD IN YOUR FAVOR. BANK INFORMATION: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. […], Colorado 80233 USA Beneficiary: […] Co. Inc Account No: […] Routing No: […] Swift Code: […] WHY WE INCLUDED HIS DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER SO THAT YOU CAN PERSONALLY CONTACT HIM TO ENQUIRE AND CONFIRM TO US THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT TO AVOID WRONGFUL WIRE TRANSFER AS THE CBN,AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY WRONGFUL TRANSFER. AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE THIS CONFIRMATION FROM YOU, WE WILL COMMENCE WITH ALL NECESSARY PROCEDURES IN OTHER TO REMIT THIS MONEY INTO A CERTIFIED ACCOUNT. THE CENTRAL BANK TELEX DEPT, DIRECTOR, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE (FMF) EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN OVER DUE INHERITANCE FUND HAVE APPROVED AND ACCREDITED THIS REPUTABLE BANK WITH THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE/FOREIGN OPERATIONS, TO HANDLE AND TRANSFER ALL FOREIGN INHERITANCE FUNDS THIS LAST QUARTER PAYMENT OF THE YEAR ENDING 2007. HOWEVER, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENTS DETAILS TO THE SAID MR ALEX KUMMER , IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT 48HRS FROM THIS CRUCIAL NOTICE. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THE DELAY IN TRANSFERRING OF THIS FUND MUST HAVE CAUSED YOU. IF FIND ANYTHING CONFUSING, QUICKLY CONTACT ME BY PHONE, IF THE NEED ARISES. CONGRATULATIONS. DR JACKSON OKAFOR , CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN). CC: SENATE PRESIDENT CC: BOARD OF DIRECTORS [FPD] CC: ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF NIGERIA

I replaced some data with “[…]”.

For saving their dishonor: The text itself was formatted with sensible line breaks, but these criminal dimwits declared it as Content-Type: text/html, which led to this display in my Thunderbird…

No d8 with Anghela

kiss – Part of a series

(Again, I’ll try to make this the mockery of a scam in bad German have some sense to you English readers…)

“I understand not why tell you me the data not??”

If you actually could speak German, you would have understood. But there’s no hope left, since this mail, your last one so far, is already several weeks old. By the way, I doubt, dear “Anghela Xrenova”, that your data – “121205, the Moskau, the street Makarenko, the house 44, Q. 56” – is correct, at least the house number seems to not exist.

“Above what have the telephone at me you stolen you know.” I strongly take exception to that allegation! I’m not a thief!

“Now tell me the full data????” No??????

So goodbye forever, you devhil.

:loll:

Show entire spam text (German) ▼

Others had also received a request for money laundering – not me; and since that would not be “personal” enough, ;) I won’t mess around with that anymore… Show money laundering mail (German) ▼

See also this German antispam forum here and especially there

And again the explicit note that this can only be frauds that want to grift pretended travel costs and/or do money-laundering.

PS. The kiss picture is not from her mail.

The 4400

No, not the TV series, but comment spam caught by Akismet:

akismet-4400

…another statistic that no-one needs. :D

And at the same time, this was first test for Windows Live Writer that I’m trying to use to write this post…

…which seems to have worked okay – only the custom fields of WordPress in which I store the music quotes are apparently not supported, and the tagging (“Keywords” in Live Writer) seems a bit uncomfortable. And is there even a way to edit already published posts?

The HTML code, at any rate, is not so nicely readable as handwritten code; and why is there style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" in every <img> tag?