Strange emails

Charlie19

Do you receive many weird emails?

Majority of us have probably got the one from the Nigerian prince requesting bank details so he can transfer over his wealth. Very kind indeed.

Then you have the typical spam, regarding products that you don't want.

Have you got any that just make no sense from unknown sender?

I got this one today..

"Portrait of Henry O. TMS is also a working organic farm. A short time later, on September 18, 1953, they were assigned to the 316th Air Division."

googled this and found nothing.

Sent from @blindingsunrecords.com

Sulla Felix

Charlie19 wrote: »

Do you receive many weird emails?

Majority of us have probably got the one from the Nigerian prince requesting bank details so he can transfer over his wealth. Very kind indeed.

Then you have the typical spam, regarding products that you don't want.

Have you got any that just make no sense from unknown sender?

I got this one today..

"Portrait of Henry O. TMS is also a working organic farm. A short time later, on September 18, 1953, they were assigned to the 316th Air Division."

googled this and found nothing.

Sent from @blindingsunrecords.com

The 316 was stationed in Germany. Sounds like someone digging up servicemens records, maybe for family tree or whateveR?

Stavros Murphy

I get some oddballs e-mailing me stuff about "your account has been suspended for non-payment..". Freaks.

Charlie19

Sulla Felix wrote: »

The 316 was stationed in Germany. Sounds like someone digging up servicemens records, maybe for family tree or whateveR?

The 316 Air division had me thinking it was military related all right, but I just found it very bizarre to find it in my email account I primarily just use for banking.

Lou.m

Charlie19 wrote: »

Do you receive many weird emails?

Majority of us have probably got the one from the Nigerian prince requesting bank details so he can transfer over his wealth. Very kind indeed.

Then you have the typical spam, regarding products that you don't want.

Have you got any that just make no sense from unknown sender?

I got this one today..

"Portrait of Henry O. TMS is also a working organic farm. A short time later, on September 18, 1953, they were assigned to the 316th Air Division."

googled this and found nothing.

Sent from @blindingsunrecords.com

I have a mate who is constantly playing practical jokes on me by way of pranks calls and emails.

I have received emails from the zodiac killer and pictures of his butt.


It is NOT the type of thing this girl wants to see thank you.

Which is why he does it.

Charlie19

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

I get some oddballs e-mailing me stuff about "your account has been suspended for non-payment..". Freaks.

Yeah I'd say that one is fairly common:)

FurQyou

Sounds ripe for some scambaiting..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_baiting

Sulla Felix

Charlie19 wrote: »

The 316 Air division had me thinking it was military related all right, but I just found it very bizarre to find it in my email account I primarily just use for banking.

Unless your email address is really left field, there's probably someone in the world with a very similar one wondering why the hell they never got an email with the info.

Un Croissant

I keep getting Viagra sales pitches from Richard E. Normous.

Charlie19

FurQyou wrote: »

Sounds ripe for some scambaiting..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_baiting

Some of those techniques remind me of how I dealt with the scam phone call we received a few years back from an Asian guy saying he worked for Microsoft or something.

I gave him the run around:)

job seeker

My father received an e-mail:

Dear Eircom customer

Your e-mail account needs cleaning up. Please E-mail on the follow..

E-mail address

Password

Retype Password

Exactly like that. The senders email was CocaCola@gmail.com



Seems Legit..

Charlie19

job seeker wrote: »

My father received an e-mail:



Exactly like that. The senders email was CocaCola@gmail.com



Seems Legit..

That link has me thinking trap:)

job seeker

Charlie19 wrote: »

That link has me thinking trap:)

A trap I set? Oh no you are mistaken..

However that was the dodge email used.. As I say "Seems Legit!"

Charlie19

job seeker wrote: »

A trap I set? Oh no you are mistaken..

However that was the dodge email used.. As I say "Seems Legit!"

So what was it?

job seeker

Charlie19 wrote: »

So what was it?

Obviously a scam of some sort.. Never E-mailed back though..










Boards + Tiredness = confusion..

Charlie19

Ah I see but I thought there might of been a wee tale behind it.

dreamers75

i get tonnes of emails for ****tards who cannot complete an online form that has YOURNAME@gmail.com

I have changed an online ad for a flat in london to accept only nazis, an abortion clinic in colorado to accept pro life people, a priest in michagan who organises AA meetings to just have a pint.

kinda sad these idiots exist and have the same name as me

FurQyou

Charlie19 wrote: »

Some of those techniques remind me of how I dealt with the scam phone call we received a few years back from an Asian guy saying he worked for Microsoft or something.

I gave him the run around:)

Its gas fun!

Should see some of the pics of the fellas asked to do something crazy to show that it is them on the email.. Priceless!

Check out 419eaters.com its a blast

TheBrinch

Ignore these emails all you want...I've increased the size of my penis in just 7 days...Click Here for more details!

pow wow

As I joined gmail in the early days and managed to get an email address of my firstname followed directly by my surname I get emails for every other human being on the planet who shares my first and last name. Most recently was a sample 'save the date' wedding invitation thingy from some girl's fiance for her approval (still debating whether to reply that having had time to think about it I've decided I don't want to get married ). Before that it was lesbian seks pics from some girl 'I' fooled around with with a note saying she looks at them often to remind her of our times together.

Mickey H

Un Croissant wrote: »

I keep getting Viagra sales pitches from Richard E. Normous.

He's an awful hoor that lad. Don't trust him. He'd shaft ya.

Doodoo

Just got this one :

"CIA lawyers about his earlier conversations with Libby. He scolds the eagle and urges the beetle to stay away from the bird. Nest peninsula is steeped in important local, state and national history."

Santa Cruz

Un Croissant wrote: »

I keep getting Viagra sales pitches from Richard E. Normous.

Ivor Bigwun is always corresponding with me on the same topic

omahaid

My understanding is that the gibberish is to get around the spam filters and the purpose of the email is to get you to respond with something like "who is this?" thus validating the email address to them.

recyclops

My Gmail account when it first started got tonnes of stuff to congressman recyclops, all about campaign plans and meetings made for interesting reading they then must have realised congressman recyclops was missing the meetings as they stopped :-(

gramar

I've been getting a lot of these lately along with all of the usual barmy non-sensical stuff. Best get my suit out and book flights I suppose. Well one way as I'm sure I won't be coming back.

Notice to Appear.
Hereby you are notified that you have been
scheduled to appear for your hearing that
will take place in the court of NY SC in April 1, 2014 at 10:45 am.
Please bring all documents and witnesses relating to this case
with you to Court on your hearing date.

The copy of the court notice is attached to this letter.

Note: If you do not attend the hearing the
judge may hear the case in your absence.

Sincerely yours
Morton Bateman
NY Supreme Court.

Muise...

I thought I had fairly unusual first and last names, but put together in an email address, I turned into a 5-star hotel restaurant manager, and received an invoice for €1,000 for bread.

yeahimhere

I used to get loads of emails about Este Laurier stock, orders and promotions that needed to be set up for this woman's region. She had the same name as me although when I emailed back on a few occasions to say they had the wrong address they never replied but kept on sending me the emails.

Was wondering if it was some sort of scam at one stage but couldn't figure out what the hell it could be.

Pumpkinseeds

I have an old Paypal account that I opened in the UK and haven't used in about 10 years. I keep getting fake emails about the account from someone pretending to be Paypal. I've got about a pound left in the account and Paypal won't let me shut the account. Fcuking hate Paypal.

darkdubh

Sulla Felix wrote: »

The 316 was stationed in Germany. Sounds like someone digging up servicemens records, maybe for family tree or whateveR?

The Email adress mentions Sun Records so might be something to do with Johnny Cash.He was stationed in Germany with the US military in the early 50s.

Muise...

yeahimhere wrote: »

I used to get loads of emails about Este Laurier stock, orders and promotions that needed to be set up for this woman's region. She had the same name as me although when I emailed back on a few occasions to say they had the wrong address they never replied but kept on sending me the emails.

Was wondering if it was some sort of scam at one stage but couldn't figure out what the hell it could be.

Totally misread "this woman's region" as more porno- than geographic.

Charlie19

darkdubh wrote: »

The Email adress mentions Sun Records so might be something to do with Johnny Cash.He was stationed in Germany with the US military in the early 50s.

Just looking at their facebook page and it hasn't had any activity since 2012

biko

Charlie19 wrote: »

I got this one today..

"Portrait of Henry O. TMS is also a working organic farm. A short time later, on September 18, 1953, they were assigned to the 316th Air Division."

These are increasing. Most spam get blocked by various rules so now they're trying to fool spam filters with real text.
Not sure what angle is, maybe phishing for responders.

nibble

Here's a good one I found in the spam folder the other day:

The challenge hypothesis proposes testosterone as the key physiological mechanism underlying this tradeoff. After telling her he had snapped the cat's neck, he beat her harshly with a fly swatter. Farragut attacked her with his strongest ships.

Makes sense.

Samsgirl

My husband constantly gets emails to his gmail for a guy in the US who shares the same name as him. He has received his travel iteninary, with flight tickets to be printed. Hotel reservations incl credit card details!! Most recently he received family photos from the guys daughter. So he went back to her and explained what had been happening. Hopefully they will stop now.

Charlie19

Samsgirl wrote: »

My husband constantly gets emails to his gmail for a guy in the US who shares the same name as him. He has received his travel iteninary, with flight tickets to be printed. Hotel reservations incl credit card details!! Most recently he received family photos from the guys daughter. So he went back to her and explained what had been happening. Hopefully they will stop now.

Or your husband is living a double life:)

yeahimhere

Muise... wrote: »

Totally misread "this woman's region" as more porno- than geographic.

Now that you mention it, I did get an email confirmation about some naughty stuff she bought online. I'm with gmail so may be a coincidence or something to do with their system. My email address is firstname.surname@gmail.com, but if you leave out the dot it will also go to me.

Samsgirl

Charlie19 wrote: »

Or your husband is living a double life:)

Yikkes!! Well let him take his washing & snoring to his other life ;-)

dunworth1

i just normally get this kind of emails normally with a picture attached

Hi. How are you doing? I write to you with my personal email so write to me at any time. I will be always glad to answer you. I with pleasure will tell to you about me and about my life. I send you my photo if it is pleasant to you, I will send to you more. I also will be glad to see your photos. I'm from Russia, I hope this is not a problem for us.

connundrum

I keep getting legit emails sent to me by mistake.

Received 2 of my pseudo name’s airline tickets on different occasions. Was able to bring them right to the point where I was able to enter my passport details and 'claim' the ticket as my own. But I didn't.

Received a really in depth and personal email from another pseudo name’s friend about her struggle in college and with life etc.

Received feedback on a pseudo name’s job interview, which was a bit of fun when I threw 'data protection' in the response to the relevant HR dept.

The most recent one was sad when I received an email from someone writing about his deceased son to whom he obviously thought was his deceased son's friend. Pictures of the grave and everything.

On all occasions I'll write back to advise the sender of their folly. Some are a bit of craic, and some are not. Advice? Be sure about the email address you're using.

gramar

Anyone here booked a paintball session for last Saturday? Anyone? No? Anyone? No?

Dear client,

Many thanks for your booking on Saturday 19/04/2014 at our Reading Paintball centre Mapledurham, Reading. Arrival time is 09:15AM prompt.

Please view the attached booking confirmation, map and important game day documents prior to attending.

Kind regards,
Leigh Anderson
Event Co-ordinator
0844 477 6842

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