I won again…………. lol

Urgent Conformation

Call us OR Mail !!!

We wish to inform you of the Yearly Award program that your E-mail Address has won an
Award sum of Two Million Dollars From Lucky Day Award lotto Nl International. Do contact Agency below for
your calim Mr,Jong Ramco,Via e-mail Address: trustgroupag5@netscape.net

Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 15Th of July
2009,phone No:0031-61-11-464 78, Fax Nu:0031-847-176-138,
Agent Email Address: trustgroupag5@netscape.net

Your winning Number Information: Ref,No.L432-85-543,Ticket Number: H2114-6410,
Serial Number:N3155-0077,and Batch Number:w890-1137-07,Congratulations.

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How I wish I really won !!!     LOL

SPANISH EL GORDO S.A:
CUSTOMER SERVICE, BARCELONA.
REFERENCE NUMBER: FCB/09/001
BATCH NUMBER: 2009/430/SPELG

ATTN: WINNER,

!!!!!!!! NOTIFICATION OF AWARD WINNING PRIZE!!!!!!!!

This is to notify you of the outcome of the just concluded SPANISH EL GORDO
Online draw in collaboration with Fundació FC Barcelona, a program held on the
28th of May 2009 here in Barcelona. Your e-mail address attached to TICKET No:
FCB/09/2219 with REFERENCE No: 000106 drew ETO?O and MESSI as goal scorer in
the Champions Final which consequently won in the 1ST CATEGORY, you are
therefore approved for a cash prize of ?990.000.00cents (Nine Hundred and
Ninety Thousand Euro).

!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This draw was carried out through a random quantitative sampling in our
selection program (BOTE) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses
drawn from the FCBARCELONA FAN CLUB online.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from
an exclusive list of 30,031 Email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated sampling software from the FCBARCELONA FANS
online . As such no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to
different ticket numbers for representation, identification and privacy.

This promotion is to commemorate the Celebration of the TREBLE AWARD of
FCBARCELONA in the concluded football season and also encourage our prominent
FANS all over the world. SPANISH EL GORDO is approved and Licensed by Loterías
y Apuestas del Estado. Ensure to keep your winning information in confidence
until your award is duly processed and claimed. This is part of our security
measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted advantage taking of the
situation by impersonators.

To begin your claims, contact the Processing Officer assigned to you
immediately via email or telephone with the information below:

Loteria-Claim Processing Agent
Name: Mr. Pedro Thomas
Email: pthomas@ozu.es
TEL: +34-634-00-87-02

You are to send the information below to the CLAIM PROCESSING OFFICER via
email for the confirmation of your winning.

1. Your full names: 2. Your address: 3. Telephone/fax numbers: 4.
Occupation/age:
5. Amount won: 6.. Reference Number: 7. Batch Number: 8. Ticket Number:
9. Reconfirm Email Address: 10. Date Notified:

Note that all prize money must be claimed within two weeks of this
notification and failure to do so may result in forfeiting this award prize as
Un-claimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your Reference Number and Ticket Number in every
correspondence with the Claims Officer.

Yours Sincerely,
Snr. Melinda Hershey
Loteria Coordinator

Note:
- All claims are nullified after 14 working days from today.
- Do inform the claims officer of any change of Names, Address and Email.
- All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.

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Here’s another SCAMMER !!!

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Jochen Kr?ger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Jochen Kr?ger made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Jochen Kr?ger until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. You are advice to contact me with my personal email:- barristermarcusandreenesq@yahoo.com.hk.

Await your prompt response.
Yours in Service,
BARRISTER MARCUS ANDREEN ESQ.
Email: - barristermarcusandreenesq@yahoo.com.hk

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I really receiving such emails of this kind but did not think of posting it here.  Only this one because I found it very obvious that the sender really is a culprit who wants only to steal you money out from your bank. You might have or might receive this spam email.  Beware!

Below is the exact copy of the message I receive:

ATTENTION PLEASE….

Monday, May 18, 2009 8:49 AM

From:

“LIU YAN” <rajesh@kouchanindia.com>

To:

undisclosed-recipients

FROM: Liu Yan
Bank of China Ltd.
13/F. Bank of China Tower
1 Garden Road
Hong Kong,

I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete
intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my best option of
communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the
temptation to ignore it as frivolous could come into your mind; but please
consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility

This letter must surprise you because we have never meet before neither in
person nor by correspondence,but I believe that it takes just one day to
meet or know someone either physically or through correspondence.

I got your contact through my personal search, you were revealed as being
quite astute in private entrepreneurship,and one has no doubt in your
ability to handle a financial business transaction. I am Liu Yan a
transfer supervisor operations in investment section in Bank of China Ltd.
Secretariat of the BOCHK Charitable Foundation 13/F. Bank of China Tower,
1 Garden Road,Hong Kong I have an obscured business suggestion for
you.Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client General Mohammed Jassim Ali
who work with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed
deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of (I will disclose amount
upon your reply) in my branch.

Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even early in the war,again
after the war another notification was sent and still no response came
from him,We later find out that General Mohammed Jassim Ali and his family
had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that General Mohammed
Jassim Ali did not declare any next of kin in his official papers
including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me
the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his
deposit in my bank. So, (I will disclose amount upon your reply) is still
lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What
bothers me most is that, according to the laws of my country at the
expiration 3 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong
Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali so
that you will be able to receive his funds.I want you to know that I have
had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful.

I have contacted an attorney who will prepare the legal documents that
will back you up as the next of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali, all
what is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your
Full Names, private phone number and Address so that the attorney can
commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney
will also fill in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary
approval and letter of probate in your favor for the transfer of the funds
to an account that will be provided by you with my guidance.There is no
risk involved at all in the matter as we are going adopt a legalized
method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning
this issue.
Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we
shall discuss the percentage issue on your reply.

If you are interested please send me your full names and current
residential address, and I will prefer you to reach me on my private and
secure email address below and finally after that I shall provide you with
more details of this operation.

Best Regards

Liu Yan

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Maurice Clarke

The word “Spam” as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email (”UBE”).

Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.

A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.

- Unsolicited Email is normal email

(examples: first contact enquiries, job enquiries, sales enquiries)

- Bulk Email is normal email

(examples: subscriber newsletters, customer communications, discussion lists)

Technical Definition of Spam

An electronic message is “spam” IF:

(1) the recipient’s personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients;

AND

(2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent.

Spam is an issue about consent, not content. Whether the UBE message is an advert, a scam, porn, a begging letter or an offer of a free lunch, the content is irrelevant - if the message was sent unsolicited and in bulk then the message is spam.

Spam is not a sub-set of UBE, it is not “UBE that is also a scam or that doesn’t contain an unsubscribe link”, all email sent unsolicited and in bulk is Spam.

This distinction is important because legislators spend inordinate amounts of time attempting to regulate the content of spam messages, and in doing so come up against free speech issues, without realizing that the spam issue is solely about the delivery method.

Important facts relating to this definition:

(1) the sending of Unsolicited Bulk Email (”UBE”) is banned by the vast majority of Internet service providers worldwide.

(2) Spamhaus’ anti-spam blocklist, used by more than 260 million Internet users to reject emails identified as spam, is based on the internationally-accepted definition of Spam as “Unsolicited Bulk Email”. Therefore anyone sending UBE on the Internet, whether the content is commercial or not, illegal or not, needs to be fully aware that (1) they will lose their Internet access if they send UBE, (2) they will be placed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) if they send UBE.

Various jurisdictions have implemented legislation to control what they call “spam”. One particular example is US S.877 (CANSPAM 2004). Each law addresses “spam” in different ways, and as a consequence, often has different definitions of what they cover, whether they call it “spam” or not. Spamhaus uses the industry standard “unsolicited bulk email” definition which underlines “it’s not about content, it’s about consent”. As such, arguments as to whether UBE messages are covered under CANSPAM or are compliant with CANSPAM, are entirely irrelevant.

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Keith George

Do you remember the quote from the Monty Python sketch in 1970. Spam is nowadays mostly known to be “sending nearly identical messages to a few or thousands (or millions) of recipients by e-mail” (Wikipedia).

Spam is best defined as unsolicited and unwanted commercial electronic messages or e-mails that are sent to large numbers of people. The term is also used to similar abuses in other media, like messengers and newsgroups.

To maintain solid relationships with your clients and peers, writing an accurate and descriptive subject line for each email you send is critical to making your readers’ lives easier and their work more efficient. Such a marketing approach provides your product information to a large audience without the aggravation causing mass email approach that many companies try and fail with. Make sure it is not unsolicited and unwanted emails that arrive in your customer’s email in-box.

Spammers know that everybody hates them and that people try to delete their messages immediately, so they have learned how to make their letters and headlines catchy. Some people have to take shortcuts to make a profit. One would expect an internet company to delete the profiles of the people that use their service in an abusive way. Some operator’s try to stop spam and Yahoo for example has a button you can use to report it. MSN has a type of free email account which filters out all the junk Spam.

Nevertheless we all need spam filters as they are an extremely successful way of managing or stopping unwanted emails, but occasionally they can work too well. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail. A search on the internet will provide a great number of software producers in this field.

The recent buyout of Giant Software may see spam filtering as a default feature in the next version of Microsoft Windows perhaps. Anti spam software typically uses content filtering or Bayesian logic, an advanced content filtering method, to score each email, looking for certain tell-tale signs of spammer habits such as frequently used terms like “Viagra” or “click here”.

In the USA the Department of Justice’s Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Division has recently put forth a bogus report to Congress on their role in the CAN SPAM Act and stated in writing that spam has been reduced. Businesses worldwide report that 20% of all e-mail received is spam. So there is still a long way to go to a spam free world.

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Rick Vidallon

Have you ever wondered how those odd-ball emails make their way into your inbox? Some contain absurd titles like: There was so much sugar in that dessert that it made my eyes hurt! Hippolytus as old records have said. Never been better since I laughed the bank. Welcome to Spam Wars. There are never ending battles being waged for your inbox. It is the spammers’ quest, duty and job to get you to click or open their email. But how in the heck does it get past your spam protection?

Confirmation Required This is the highest level of protection where an action or reply is required by the sender. While this is an effective way to block unwanted emails, you may end up blocking important automated emails from important sources like your bank or credit card companies.

Reporting Malicious Spammers Two very common types of malicious emails are virus attachments and spam that seeks to steal your financial information. Virus attachments cannot infect your computer unless you click or open the attachment. There are many virus protection software programs that warn you once a virus attachment has been received. Some popular programs include: Norton, McAffee and Avast.

Spammers seeking to steal your personal information or gain access to your financial information go to great lengths to trick unwary users by creating emails that look exactly like an official email from a reputable financial or online company.

Detecting Financial Fraud If you see an email that looks suspicious there are ways to detect it. Let’s say you receive an email from Bank of America. The email warns you that someone has attempted to access your account and your cooperation is needed to prevent this from happening. The email looks very official and contains their logo along with a properly formatted hyperlink that looks something like this: bankofamerica.com/account_resolutions. But once you click this, there is a very different link, which still looks official. The page still looks like Bank of American but the web address is linking to another website aka: clickster.com/bankofamerica.com When you see these emails forward them to the proper departments of the actual company or organization. Here are two emails for reporting suspicious emails to Pay Pal and Bank of America. Forward suspicious emails to abuse@bankofmaerican.com and spoof@paypal.com Spammers’ Weapon Of Choice The spammers’ weapon of choice is surprise. Heck, even I’ve been fooled once or twice out of sheer curiosity. The email might come to me titled as ‘Dear Rick’, Or ‘Rick, please read this’. Spammers or mass email marketers need to sneak past your spam filters, which are either setup by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or your own email client spam filters.

Internet Service Providers can only do so much. It’s up to you if want more protection. There are third party providers that specialize in identifying and blocking spam.

How Spam Is Identified Here are the primary parameters that define an email:

From Address: legal_billpay@biz.com! From Domain: billpayers.net Subject: We pay all your late bill fees today. Body Text: You have been approved! Attachments:

Specific file Names: paynow Specific File Extensions: paynow.exe

Most ISPs have a ongoing file of known addresses and domains belonging to spammers. However, identifying spam using the subject line and body text is more difficult and must be blocked at the user level.

Blocking Spam Based On Use Since I run a business I do not want to unwittingly block new emails from potential business inquiries. So I have to deal with a moderate amount of spam. Some users work around the problem by creating multiple emails for friends, family, business and general use. If you have some techy skills you may define your own spam filters within specific email domain accounts. You may view or download my own set of filters for free at the link below.

‘Spam-Filtering-Rules’

As you receive new spam you may add them to this list to decrease your spam influx.

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Lance Winslow

What if we could defeat SPAM? What if no one could hijack a Zombie Computer? What if SPAM did not come from half way around the world? What if SPAM did not take up so much of our bandwidth?

What if no one tried to sell us junk we did not want? What if SPAM was actually targeted, such as not sending male items to females or denture ads to teenagers?

What if the Federal Trade Commission had better tools to get these people? What if it did not take years to define SPAM? What if the CAN SPAM Act was not taken as a challenge by perpetrators?

What if we no one invented SPIT (SPAM over IP Telephony) which threatens to disrupt VoIP? What if no one used SPAM to try to steal someone’s identity? What if Phishing did not exist thru SPAM? What if we were not asking today what to do about Pharming?

What if the Viagra Spammers knew that you just have never had a problem getting it up? What Chinese Spammers did not send SPAM with a bunch of symbols you cannot read and could care less what they say? What if SPAM just went away?

What if you had back the time you wasted on sifting thru the SPAM? What if you could send the SPAM back times 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000? What if you could fight back, what then? Why do people send SPAM and why do you hate it so much?

What if the real Spam or ham in a can could sue all of them for hurting their brand name? Ah, yes what if…What if We Stopped SPAM?

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 Ward Tipton

One of the most difficult concepts for many people to understand is that stuffing keywords and key phrases into an article or creating a keyword density which is more than two to two and one half percent is actually recognized by the search engines as being keyword spam. In some instances, this may not be such a bad thing but continued posting of materials which use keyword stuffing in an effort to generate traffic is much more detrimental than many people really know or understand.

Keyword stuffing or putting in the same keyword phrase too many times will often result in the web page being completely banished by the search engines. The idea of keyword articles and keyword phrases is to generate traffic to a web site and not to get the site banned. If you want to generate traffic to your site, that is fully understandable, however stuffing the keywords, even if it does work in the short run, is not a viable method for keeping your sites in the top rankings.

It is absolutely and completely true that content is king. That has always been the case and always will be the case when you have a web site up in hopes of generating traffic and creating successful business ventures online strictly from the contents of the web page. That content however, needs to be written as more than just a means to stuff a bunch of keywords onto a web page if you want to be successful.

The content needs to be well thought out and written in a manner that is easy for visitors to the site to read, comprehend and when necessary, to act upon. Generally an article which is written in the manner of keyword spam is difficult for most people to read simply because of so much redundancy within the context of the article itself. There is no need to continue inserting the same keywords or keyword phrases over and over again. In fact, not only is it more likely to get you banned from the search engine results pages but it inevitably prevents another benefit to both the visitor and owner as well.

Continually stuffing the same keywords or phrases into one single article will often prevent the inclusion of other relevant keywords in relation to the same subject matter or topic that they are writing about. Unless someone has the means to write the thousands of articles it would take to include every relevant keyword or every phrase that has been searched, a modicum of diversity is necessary in the writing in order to include as many possible variations on the keywords as well.

It is necessary to reiterate the fact that stuffing keywords is spam. Spam is never a good idea and is always bad unless you are talking about luncheon meat and even then it is questionable at best. Using a diverse group of related keywords and phrases throughout the article will help you to attract anyone who searches around your keywords as well. This will result in more hits on the SERPs and more traffic being generated for the site itself.

Once the traffic has been generated and people begin coming to the site, the only to keep them coming back for more is to make sure that all of the information included in the content is actually worthwhile and not just something that has been thrown together simply to include your keywords or key phrases. If the content on the site does not contain actual materials with actual information and what the visitors want and need, it will quickly fade out and cease to be a marketable asset. Keywords and keyword phrases are an important tool for site promotion but the actual Content will always be King.

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By Rami Doleh

People who begin their online business ventures would naturally be unaware of many of the internet business rules, protocols and etiquettes. Yet, as in any law, the internet law does not forgive for ignorance. One of the most important issues that are governed by many controls over the internet is Spamming.

A beginner in online business can very easily fall unintentionally into the spamming trap while conducting internet marketing activity to promote his/her business.

Spamming has many faces and forms depending on the marketing activity performed. We will list the marketing activity, the possible spamming forms within each marketing activity, possible consequences and how to avoid unintentional spamming in each spamming form.

1- E-mail Campaigns: The most common spamming method is conducted through e-mail campaigns. E-mail spamming is when you send an e-mail promoting your product or service to someone who did not request any information from you. In many cases beginners fall into the trap of buying lists of e-mails from questionable sources and when sending the e-mail campaign they would realize that one of the following occurred:

a. Received direct complaints.

b. The e-mail account gets shut from the ISP or the hosting provider.

c. Contacted by internet police.

How to avoid e-mail spamming:

a. Make sure that the person who you are sending your campaign to has requested information from you or allowed you to send him e-mails.

b. When buying e-mail lists make sure that the list is safe and has allowed e-mails to be sent to them.

c. Ensure to have a statement at the end of your e-mail that would allow the recipient of your e-mail campaign to opt out if they do not wish to receive any communication from you.

2- Link Submission: Spamming in Link submission could be done in different forms but to cut the story short, you should follow the rules of each directory carefully. Among the very famous rules that are common across many link submission directories:

a. Do not submit your website link in more than one category.

b. Do not submit different pages of your website; submit only your top level link.

c. Do not submit your link more than once. Search the directory to check if your link already exists.

Failing to follow the rules of each directory would delete your link immediately at this particular directory.

3- Article Submission: Just like link directories, article directories have their own rules as well. Not complying with these rules will make those directories decline your articles. Among the most famous rules are the following:

a. Submit your own work and not somebody else’s.

b. Submit a topic that is acceptable by the directory.

c. Do not make your title all in Capital letters. Use Title Caps form.

d. Do not Bold your key words within your article.

4- Posting in Forum: Again you have to read the rules of each forum you intend to be part of before you make any posts. Among the most famous rules are the following:

a. Do not advertise your business in your posts.

b. Do not include affiliate links in your posts.

c. Follow the exact rules of the forum for your sig. file.

Failing to comply will make the forum moderators cancel your account permanently.

5- Blogging: Filling your Blog by copying other people’s articles could eliminate your account permanently with your Blog host.

6- Search Engine Related Spamming Activity:

a. Filling your site content with your keywords will be considered spamming by search engines.

b. Submitting your website to link farms will be considered spamming by search engines.

c. Adding huge amounts of content to your website while your site niche does not usually require such additions will be considered spamming by search engines.

d. Submitting your website to FFA’s could be considered as spamming by search engines.

e. Including Keywords in your Keyword tag on your website while they are not related to your website could be considered as spamming by search engines.

I hope this will help all online business beginners to avoid the spamming trap and have a smooth and successful internet marketing activity.

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