June 1, 2008 by Chrystalline
Oddly enough, the spam/scam entries seem to be my best traffic posts. Not sure what that means to my long-term blogging plans, but for the moment, it suits me well enough. Most of these come through my AOL account (which I don’t actually use for anything by IM anymore – same with Hotmail and Yahoo, BTW). That’s because the ones that get through Gmail’s filters are usually either image mail, which I refuse to unblock enough to see what they are, or vulgar, which I refuse to post.
Anyway, Rosalind recently got the death threat/extortion version, which is disturbing. I don’t know how I would take that, personally; it’s not like I know anyone who hates me that much, but the thought of it is creepy. At least I just keep getting the fraudulent fortune emails.
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Tags: 419, MST, scam, spam
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February 13, 2008 by Chrystalline
Let’s start with the not-so-new, but with a slightly different twist. The Nigerian widow is now a pair of orphans in Ghana. Oddly enough, the 21-year-old needs a guardian to access his late father’s financial accounts at some non-specific “finance company.” Apparently, 18 year olds are “small” and 21 year olds, while old enough to vote, are not old enough to inherit? Let’s note, also, that Ghana is sufficiently linked to the Nigerian scams to have an entry on the subject on its national stats page on Wikipedia. (Interestingly enough, the header info referenced a Hong Kong email address.)
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Tags: 419, Bank of America, BOA, digital certificate, Ghana, Nigerian, phishing, scam, security, spam
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