http://www.lindqvist.com/en Since 1997 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:29:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are lots of instances of the below mail on the web, and I'm afraid that there is also a real Grace Beatrice Minor, the name that these scammers use in the below scam mail. Actually, there is no chance at all that the below mail is sent by the ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/mrs-grace-beatrice-minor-wants-assistance It's been a while since I posted the last scam mail here. Not that I haven't received any, it's more that they seem to come in at such a steady stream that it sometimes seems futile to even think that I can publish them all. Anyhow, here's a mail that seems ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/mr-ahmed-usman-wants-to-donate-500000-pounds Once again, it's the time of year when love and affection has to be manifested in pink, with baloons, roses, hearts and of some weird reason, chocolades. Each year I return to this old post, and this Anti-valentine card. It's now published together with others, like it at meish.org/vd     I just ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/anti-valentine This e-mail from the alias of Abdul Isa, from the African Development Bank in Burkina Faso must be one of the longest bankscam e-mails I have ever received. It has all the markings of a scam, with the bait, the re-assurments, and the wow of silence. The first rule of ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/abdul-isa-of-african-development-bank-burkina-faso First of all. There is no "E-mail address ballot lottery international program" with the UK National Lottery. And we've been through this so many times on this site, that it feels as if I'm repeating myself. The below e-mail is a scam. An attempt by fraudsters to cheat me, and ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/united-kingdom-national-lottery-in-a-new-flavor I get too many mails like the belo from "Mrs. Rebecka Garang", where none of my e-mail addresses is listed in the to-field. If it was, I might actually take them more seriaously. Now I don't actually now anything about John Garang, and he might just have a widow named ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/rebecka-garang-wants-help Yesterday I tried to communicate with a friend in Zimbabwe via SMS. The first SMS message I sent got through alright, even if it took a few hours. After receiving a reply I wanted to send a follow-up and it turned out to be quite long. It spanned 3 messages, ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/im-barred-from-texting-to-zimbabwe Spam levels are up this christmas. Not only from scammers trying to take advantage of the charity spirit of the season, lottery scammers trying to make people believe that there is a chance to win big sums of money without even purchasing a lottery ticket (and now they even started ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/spam-spam-spam If you received the below mail fron "Mrs. Jennifer Wilson" you might wonder how a mail where somebody is willing to include you in their will might end in a fraud attempt where you are actually separated from some of your own money. The woman just wants help with finding ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/will-for-charity-jennifer-wilson If I am to believe, Mr E Dominique, the forgotten funds belonging to a Mr Martin J Hillenbrand is to become partly mine. And who would say no to a chance to get 40 % of almost 30 million dollars? Well, I do. I say no since I don't believe ... http://www.lindqvist.com/en/e-dominique-and-the-millions-belonging-to-martin-j-hillenbrand