Spam is increasing astronomically

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Location
Perth Western Australia
All spam goes to the spam box so I do not see it unless I access the spam box.
I last looked on February 2. Since then, there have been 50 spam messages.

Here is one of them.

Attn Beneficiary,

Contact UBA Bank to Receive Your payment funds total amount of $6.4Million United State Dollars now We have actually been authorized by the newly appointed United Nation secretary general, and the governing body of the UNITED NATIONS Monetary Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment funds total amount of $6.4Million United State Dollars has been unnecessarily Delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank who are Trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

To forestall this, security for your funds was organized in the form of your personal Identification number (PIN) ATM CARD and this will enable only you to have direct Control over your funds in the ATM CARD. We will monitor this payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Officials of the bank. An irrevocable payment guarantee has been issued by the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on your Payment. However, we are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/Instructions; your complete Inheritance Funds have been credited in your favor through ATM VISA CARD.

You are therefore advice to contact:

Name. Mr. Oliver Alawuba
E-mail ubabankoffice79*@gmail.com
Director UBA BANK PLC Payment Department

Contact him now for the delivery of your ATM Card. As soon as you establish a contact with him, an ATM card will be issued to you immediately which you can use to withdraw your funds in any Bank ATM Machine in your Country, but the maximum is $20 000 per day. So if you like to receive your funds through this means you're advised to contact (Mr. Oliver Alawuba) with the following information as stated below:

1. Your Full Name______________
2. Address Where You Want the Courier Company to Send Your ATM Card To or (P.O Box)
3. Your Age___________________________ _
4. Occupation_______________
5. Telephone Numbers_____________
6. Country_______________________ ____

NOTE: You are advised to furnish Mr. Oliver Alawuba with your correct and valid details. Once again be informed that the amount to be paid to you is $6.4Million United State Dollars, We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us to monitor this payment effectively thereby making contact with Dr. Godwin Paul as directed to avoid further delay.

Congratulations.
Mr. Oliver Alawuba
 

Wow. Aside from the obvious spam/scam, accessing $6.4 million via an ATM card would take a long time.

Gotta love it. Instead of having an email address attached to a bank or other official address, he's using a free gmail email address.
 
I used to get blackmail emails that say they've got a video of me taken through my computer's camera (there isn't one) and demanding payment be sent somewhere or other or they'll release the video to my friends and family and workplace. I block these on our email server.
 

Beezer said:
I use gmail and don't get very much spam at all. Which platform are you using?
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If you're talking to me, Windows. We have our own server and domain names (gmail.com is a domain name), but they've been in use for ... 20+ years, so the email addresses got around. For the main one, Adobe (makers of Photoshop, etc.) got hacked at one point, so that email address is out there.

I make up email addresses for various uses, so those generally don't get any spam.

I'm gonna guess that gmail strains spam out of the incoming email, but I don't know.
 
Wow, that spam is hilarious! Like, yeah...you're really entitled to receive 6.4 mil but they don't even address you by name and you have no idea who the sender is! That is unless you previously knew a Mr. Oliver A (whatever his name is). :ROFLMAO: The sad part is that some greedy yet gullible person might fall for that!

I have one email I used mainly for communications from my financial institutions and to send financial info to my loved ones. I never get spam in that one. Since January 22nd only 4 emails are in my Spam folder of my main email account and one of those isn't really spam. Ironically the email I use to sign up for stuff, which I would expect to have more spam, has none at all.
 
@Bretrick The spammers harvested your email address from the database of an online site you had entered your email address at. Just out of curiosity, do you have a FaceBook account?

Reason I ask, is because I used to get those types of emails frequently when I had a FB account. And I strongly suspected my email address was somehow harvested from there since my FB account was public. I've since deleted my FB account but perhaps equally important, also changed my email address. So far, no more spam.
 
I got curious about what might be in my spam folder, but there were only 14 spam messages (appears that google might delete them after 6 weeks tho). Most were just advertising or from the podiatrist I saw in Boston a couple years ago.

The only interesting one was called "Notice of Class Certification: In re Pork Antitrust Litigation".
 
Naturally said:
@Bretrick The spammers harvested your email address from the database of an online site you had entered your email address at. Just out of curiosity, do you have a FaceBook account?

Reason I ask, is because I used to get those types of emails frequently when I had a FB account. And I strongly suspected my email address was somehow harvested from there since my FB account was public. I've since deleted my FB account but perhaps equally important, also changed my email address. So far, no more spam.
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I have never had a facebook account.
Sometimes when I want a laugh I access the spam folder:)
 

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