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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Money & Sex Emails

Like many folks who are online daily, we get a fair amount, LOTS of junk and spam emails. As prolific as spammers are in sending unwanted and potentially dangerous emails, we are very skilled in the Delete function — these recent messages are exactly as received with a deleted link in the second (discretion advised).

This one offered $ . . .

HM Revenue & Customs
29/04/2014
NOTIFICATION: TAX REFUND 22.04.2014

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive tax refund of 358.52 GBP. To access your tax refund, please download and fill the Tax Refund Form attached to this email. A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example :


-invalid records
-applying after the deadline.

HM Revenue & Customs
Tax Credit Office
PO Box 1970
Liverpool L75 1WX

Here's an invite we  ignored. . .

Clothing Optional Party in our Hotel Room
Hey, my friends and I are throwing a clothing optional get together!
So far we have 6 girls and 2 guys coming. We need more guys and girls. You're welcome to just watch if you don't want to participate in the fun. Singles and couples are invited. You must be 21 and over. All guys will be wearing protection, (aka condoms) no exceptions. Go to xxxxxxxxxxx dot org and search for it and you will see it. I posted the address and more info on there. If you have any questions let me know. 
Jessica

We were advised about a British tax refund although we live in the U.S. and invited to a sex party . . . 

What's in YOUR Email lately ?

14 comments:

Montanagirl said...

So far, I haven't gotten anything like that thank goodness! But anything or anyone that I don't recognize, I just delete. And I NEVER read forwards....they get deleted too.

Anvilcloud said...

I like that GMail traps almost all SPAM so that I seldom notice it. I do take a quick look in that folder before I delete just to make sure something didn't get tagged wrongly.

Out on the prairie said...

Never get much like this, I do get dating crap on Facebook.

Rebecca said...

Good thing you are smarter than the average bear..

DeniseinVA said...

I've never had an e-mail like that before but thanks for the head's up. I usually delete anything that even remotely looks like spam.

L. D. said...

I delete a lot of things that looks bad. My son never writes me but he is always recommending me things as they stole my address from his mail. I figure if I delete something important that they will send it again. You have some interesting things sent to you. I hope you get your taxes paid soon to the neighboring country.

Anonymous said...

That comes and goes and lately it's been a calm period. Otherwise their much like Your spam.

One popular scam here is to send an email looking just like the one our bank would send and the mail is saying that something is wrong with the account and could we please send them our account numbers :-) The odd thing is that people do???

Have a great day!
Christer.

Country Gal said...

Yup same here Gmail traps all this type of junk right into our spam . This site explains why we here use Gmail http://www.gtricks.com/gmail-tricks/how-gmail-spam-filter-works/ Hope it all stops for you ! Thanks for sharing , Have a good week !

William Kendall said...

There's always the popular Nigerian spam "Dearest Friend, I am the wife/ daughter/ assistant/ surviving concubine of the late Beloved Generalissimo/ President/ Reverend Mbatu ToogoodtobeTrue, and he instructed me in His will to find a person of the mostest high moral standing to disperse his five million dollars in legal estate dollar funds."

Connie said...

I haven't had anything like that for quite a while. I think my email filters out most of the spam I get.

Lois Evensen said...

Yep, we get the same stuff. Click. Trash. :\

Emma Springfield said...

Every once in a while I glance at a spam email that catches my eye. For a time I was getting a lot of invitations from some young lady who wanted me to connect to her email to receive naked pictures of her. As always I was highly amused. Anything ridiculous makes me laugh.

jp@A Green Ridge said...

Nothing like that!!!!...:)JP

Tammy@Simple Southern Happiness said...

Yum, this menu sounds awesome.