If any of the following letters look familiar, it’s probably because you’ve received them before.

We’ve published these spam messages here to illustrate how much personal information is out there and emphasize why we need to clean up after ourselves when we’ve finished with a computer.

Patrick,

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Kind Regards

Here’s another one:

Patrick,

I am a Manager of Rennies bank in South Africa, I am seeking for your
Co-operation to present you to my bank as the next of kin/Business
Partner
Beneficiary to my deceased client, before his death, he has a bank
Balance with my bank to the tune of ($14.7m,) Mr. Morris Thompson, a
Businessman
Based in South Africa he died since On the 4th of February 2000 in an
Air crash
Along with his wife in on Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other
Passengers on board.
You can confirm this from the website below.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
No other person knows about this account. The
Strategy is to use our influence as Managers/directors of the bank to
Approve the funds to you. So if interested forward to me your full
Names,
Age, country, Profession, Phone and Fax numbers. This will enable me to
Contact you for further clarification.
Regards.
Mr. Benjamin Vusi.

Yet another:

Greetings!

I am Mr.Wellington.I have been waiting for you since to contact me for
your Confirm able Bank Draft of$800.000.00 United States Dollars, but I
did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited the Draft
with FedEx Delivery, West Africa,I travelled out of the country for a
3Months Course and I will not come back till end of march.

What you have to do now is to contact the FedEx Delivery as soon as
possible to
know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring
date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge,
Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing
that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist
attack in your Country.

The only money you will send to the FedEx Delivery to deliver your Draft
direct
to your postal Address in your country is ($195.00 US) Dollars only being
Security Keeping Fee of the Delivery Company so far.
Again, don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except the
$195.00US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they
don’t know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.You have
to contact the FedEx Delivery now for the delivery of your Draft with this
information bellow;

Contact Person: Dr. Thomas Frimpong
Email Address:fedexcourier_delivery007@hotmail.com
Telephone: +44 704 571 5859, +234 703 0077 739,

Fax: +44704576 564
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address() and Direct
telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and
ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package
over there and know when it will get to your address.
Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail
to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security
Keeping fee of $195.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.
You should also let me know through email as soon as you receive your Draft.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr Wellington.

And another:

Mr. Hebert,

THE PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT,
CAMELOT GAMES.TOLPITS LANE,
WATFORD,HERTS WD18 9RN
UNITED KINGDOM.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,11th febuary,
2008 for winners of the CAMELOT GAMING ONLINE PROMO PRO GRAMME held on
the 30th of January, 2008. Congratulations,you have just won yourself
£753,437.00 in the satellite software email lottery conducted by the
CAMELOT GROUP PLC.
If you own this email account,you are to file the claim to receive your
prize.

To immediately claim your prize, contact the payment bank by
sending them an email with the below email address. This will be solely
for the purpose of the transfer. Immediately the account is setup, your
funds will be deposited into the temporal debit account from which you
can then transfer your money to any bank account of your choice.

NAME:MR. HARRISON WALTER (Foreign transfer officer)
BANK:NATIONWIDE BANK PLC
1 KINGS PARK ROAD,MOULTON PARK,
NORTHAMPTON NN3 6NW,
LONDON, ENGLAND
TEL:+447031947183
EMAIL:accounts_nwbplc@hotmail.com

Congratulations again.

Yours Truly,
Sir Steven Smith
Co-coordinator(Online Promo Pro gramme).
CAMELOT LOTTERY PROGRAME

Again:

Dear Friend,

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred through the assistance of a new partner from Paraguay.Presently i am in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn’t forget your past efforts and nattempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite the fact that it failed some how. Now contact my secretary in cotonue, BENIN, through his email address(ubaru80@yahoo.com) his name is Mr.Uba Aru.Ask him to send you a total sum of $950,000.00 U.S dollars(CASHIER CHECK) which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in then.I really appreciated all your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get in touched with my secretary and instruct him nwhere and how to send the Cashier cheque to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferings at that time. For the moment, i am very busy here in South Korea with the investment projects which i and the new partner are having at hand. Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary Mr.Uba Aru on your behalf to receive those money, so feel free to get in touch with him to send it to you without any delay.

THANKS AND REGARDS

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