SPAM Attack!

Saturday, January 7, 2006 by Cyberworld | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I've been attacked with this spam message and it won't stop! I'm on Hotmail and no matter how many addresses i block it doesn't stop! Any ideas?

!!LOTERIE NATIONALE!!

ENSURE YOU FILL OUT THE EXACT DETAILS.

This is to formally notify you of the result of the just concluded final draws of the LOTERIE NATIONALE promotional programme.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 150,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of five winners in the category "A" with the followings:

Ref Number: LNI VL63042-J15
Batch Number: LNI BX-DD55
Ticket Number: 03007-YV86
Serial Number: FV 994
Lucky number: 41 07 480

You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (TWO MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information’s below:

MRS.CATHERINE MICHEL
GLOBAL CONSULT,
TEL: 0031 621 697 243.
Email:[email protected]

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all winning information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yours faithfully,

PATRICIA HUIJGEN (MRS)

LOTERIE NATIONALE 2006
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ama02
Reply #1 Saturday, January 7, 2006 7:19 PM
Is it the same message everytime? Can you put that first line (loterie nationale) in your spam filter? I don't use hotmail, so not sure if you can specify text within the body of the message.
Bichur
Reply #2 Saturday, January 7, 2006 7:35 PM
I think it got misdirected...I'm pretty sure it was for Sleeping Dragon.
starkers
Reply #3 Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:00 PM
SPAM Attack!


Put it this way, if you have any left over...don't send it to me, never ever eat the stuff

Seriously tho, sorry to hear of your problem. I've had similar instances from various other sources, and no matter how many times I marked them as JUNK, deleted them and set filters to block them, they'd still keep coming, day in, day out. I finally got them stopped by deleting my account and reopening it with a slightly different addy....since then I've been relatively free of spam

To be quite honest, I don't think the Junk filters in Hotmail work too well at all, if at all. MS certainly needs to address this issue.

Anyhow, best of luck with it
aimzzz
Reply #4 Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:05 PM
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #5 Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:52 PM
I think it got misdirected...I'm pretty sure it was for Sleeping Dragon.


Probably. I get a dozen a day. Always different addies.
aimzzz
Reply #6 Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:57 PM
But you fried it up & wrote about it...
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #7 Saturday, January 7, 2006 9:32 PM
not sure what that means, but ok
aimzzz
Reply #8 Saturday, January 7, 2006 9:37 PM
Spam. What was I thinking? https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=144&AID=91207
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #9 Saturday, January 7, 2006 9:50 PM
ah, bad memory here.
starkers
Reply #10 Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:29 PM
Without a word of a lie, when I gave a rotty I once had some Spam cos I wouldn't eat it, he turned up his nose and walked away from it....I later had to discard it to the garbage bin.
Patriots
Reply #11 Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:35 PM
I think it got misdirected...I'm pretty sure it was for Sleeping Dragon.




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PoSmedley
Reply #12 Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:45 PM
I have gotten about 6 of those emails in the past 2 weeks..from the Netherlands, Spain, and the one you posted here.
scorpio-logic
Reply #13 Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:29 AM
It seems they want you to answer it. I had this problem years back, and had to switch email service to get it to quit. Don't know what to tell you to help. Good luck. Try "Junk Mail".


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Bichur
Reply #14 Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:35 AM
scorpio-logic
Reply #15 Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:40 AM
I haven't eaten SPAM since the 70s. Dad came back from 'Nam with a hankering for it. I never liked the stuff, but dad says SPAM's good with e'rything! NOT! Only if you've not eaten in a week, might it be somewhat palletable.

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jebro
Reply #16 Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:04 AM
Bichur
Reply #17 Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:17 AM


avatar's looking good ms jebro
scorpio-logic
Reply #18 Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:23 AM
I gotta figure out how to do all those emoticons.

Is it against the rules to change avatars? Will I git flamed? Cuz I don't want a bunch of spam gelatin splattin all over me.


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LittleBearJason
Reply #19 Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:24 AM
Theyre all scam artists trying to get your personal information. I have seen crap like this on Craigslist before too...

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jebro
Reply #20 Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:40 AM
Thank you Bichur, and so do you. But... have you ever consider doing a body wax?

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