This one should win a prize for lameness. No graphics, no links, no attachment, no signature, nothing. Is someone testing their new spam toy?
Sender: WorldWide Lottery (bevile@bevilehotel.com.br)
Subject: Prize Winning.
Text:
Did you receive our email ??
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This one is simple and intriguing, but obviously a scam. This site says it's a malware delivery mechanism.
Sender: KATHRINE BURRELL (accounting@rlweiner.com) -- nope, no Kathrine Burrells work here.
Subject: Need your help!
Text:
Hello! Look, I've received an unfamiliar bill, have you ordered anything?
Here is the bill (link leads to http://bodrumadvisor.com/wp-content/themes/yoo_pure_wp/cache/kxwpq.htm?RPSBNA=2LPA6YI4NAA&3K7J=WRCJ3RCLH3O76EI&5LNS4WU=FH8PPJBS1WF&LCL=ATI67T7K&QQX4=8D198B0452RE3D6N&SKX=FIZMNFC5WFILQXA0&)
Please reply as soon as possible, because the amount is large and they demand the payment urgently.
MAILNR : Fingerprint: 80afff5d-97db4138
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The CTK Foundation’s "Heroes with a Heart" Grant Award wants YOU to nominate a “Hero with a Heart,” and give them a chance to win $5,000 as thanks for the hard work that they do.
There are three awards:
Applications for all Heroes with a Heart grant awards open on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 and close Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at midnight. Finalists will appear on the CTK Facebook page for public voting during April and winners will be announced on May 1, 2012. This award is open to registered nonprofits or charities of all types and sizes, worldwide.
Go to www.communitytech.net/foundation to nominate your Hero with a Heart today!
For regular updates on the Heroes with a Heart Grant, check out the CTK Facebook Page.
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I wrote about a version of this one last year, but the language of this version is so tortured that I have to post it. No official-looking seal this time.
Sender: FBI OFFICE (office.fbi3@gmail.com)
Subject: FROM IMF HEAD OFFICE
Text:
Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
www.fbi.gov
Attenuation,
This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you
that we have completed an investigation on an International Payment in
which was issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the
help of our newly developed technology (International Monitoring Network
System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically
selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum
of $2.4million USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of
America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the
money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this
winning to be paid to you via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT.
Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL
CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT by your local bank. We have successfully notified
this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered
bank within the world wide, so as to enable you cash the check instantly
without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $2.4million USD has
been deposited with IMF.
We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to
receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to
be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been
deposited with IMF you will be required to settle the following bills
directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is
located in Cotonou, Benin Republic. According to our discoveries, you
were required to pay for the following,
(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )
(3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's
Check to your home address)
The total amount for everything is $76.00 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $76.00 should be deducted from your winning
prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited IMF
and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore
you will be required to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge of
this transaction
In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to
contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Henry Ben) via e-mail. Kindly look
below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Henry Ben
E-MAIL : imfoffce5@yahoo.com.tr
PHONE NUMBER: +22999511139
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram
details on how to send the required $76.00 in order to immediately ship
your prize of $2.4million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT
from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order for him
to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $76.00 ONLY to Mr.
Henry Ben via information in which he shall send to you,
Mr. Robert Mueller
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service, Photograph of Director
Robert S. Mueller, III Robert S. Mueller,
III Director Office of Public Affairs
Welcome once more to FBI www.fbi.gov
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Lots of people have already weighed in on Blackbaud’s purchase of Convio (two of my favorites: http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2012/1/18/blackbaud-buys-their-rival-convio-now-what.html and http://nonprofit-force.org/2012/01/20/the-convio-blackbaud-merger-one-customers-perspective/). Here my perspective. Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I don’t invest in these or other companies that I advise on. I have no inside knowledge about what the merged company will look like.
Mostly I have lots of questions and concerns that the firms won’t be able to address until the merger is completed — if then. My main questions are about product strategies. (How) will this affect Convio’s online marketing suite? Common Ground? Luminate? NetCommunity? Sphere? Raiser’s Edge? eTapestry? (How) will this affect Blackbaud’s plans for, or ability to build, implement, and support Enterprise CRM? Will Blackbaud continue to develop on both the Salesforce and Infinity platforms? Will they really be willing and able to maintain all of these products and codebases?
While I generally think vendor consolidation is bad for the nonprofit world (unless the vendor being absorbed wasn’t a strong player to begin with), I’m less concerned about the impact on small nonprofits. There are tons of choices out there for small and mid-sized organizations. Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. I’ve also been compiling a list of every donor database I come across at https://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661
I’m more concerned about the top end of the market. There were few full solutions designed for large nonprofits to begin with. Blackbaud has already bought Team Approach and PIDI, and (assuming this goes through) Luminate will join that club. On the recent NTEN community call someone asked the panel to name 5 vendors (other than Blackbaud and Convio) to whom we’d send a CRM system RFP for a $100 million nonprofit. It’s a real struggle to come up with five that can handle:
In addition, the vendor or consultant needs to understand nonprofit best practices, workflows, reporting needs, fund accounting, and unique requirements like giving societies, membership benefits, fair market donation values and tax benefits, soft credits, gifts that are split between funds or sources, auction gifts and purchases, and how to provide donor recognition credit for gifts that have no tangible value. Finally, the system needs to be backed by strong implementation practices, training, and ongoing product development and user support. Software alone seldom gets the job done.
I’m also concerned about the confusion this will cause in the industry. I’m currently working with clients that are considering Blackbaud and Convio’s database products (among others). They don’t want to choose a product that won’t get the full resources of the merged company, or could even be killed off. Some independent consultants who implement Common Ground have questioned whether my clients even want to consider that product until the dust settles. (I’ve also heard from competitors that are expecting to pick up new clients because of the confusion).
And I’m concerned about confusion at Blackbaud. My experience with past acquisitions was that it took months or years for sales reps to figure out where their products stood. Sometimes they would pitch competing Blackbaud products against each other. Other times they would refuse to show us a product that a client was interested in because of an internal decision to promote product A over product B.
Although Blackbaud has bought companies and immediately killed off their products, (e.g., Fund-Master and GiftMaker Pro), of late, they’ve acquired companies and kept their products going (Team Approach, eTapestry, PIDI, Kintera). However, in most cases I haven’t seen evidence that they have invested in the future of these products. In some cases (like Team Approach), clients have been told that there won’t be any future product enhancements.
I expect that it will be many months before we have any clarity about what this merger will mean and years before anything significant happens. But it’s hard for me to believe that Blackbaud will be able to support all of these products. I expect that some clients will be given notice that they should make other plans. It’s also hard to imagine that established products will be killed off — at least not any time soon. I’m more concerned about newer products, or those with smaller customer bases.
I do expect that this will create opportunities for existing systems. If nothing else, many nonprofits won’t be able to wait for months or years to see which products will survive. But those companies will need to be able to provide the tools and support that nonprofits need, and have the marketing muscle to get the word out.
It could also open the door to an open source project. During the NTEN call we discussed Tessitura, the performing arts fundraising and ticketing system as an example of a successful effort. But that product started out with development and support from a major organization (the Metropolitan Opera). The Met was able to form a separate company to invest in and support the product, and it’s been a huge success.
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Just in time for tax filing season in the U.S., a phishing message purporting to come from Intuit. Intuit's security center lists lots of these, but not the two I got this week. Both had empty graphics placeholders and broken hyperlinks -- maybe the work of a baby spammer.
Sender: INTUIT INC. (onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com) -- it claims to come from Intuit, but the return address is at Bank of America
Subject: Please provide your tax information. (a second version had an exclamation point before the period)
Text:
Version 1:
Hello,
With intent to ensure that accurate data is being maintained on our systems, as well as to provide you better quality of service; INTUIT INC. has partaken in the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] Name and TIN Matching Program.
We have discovered, that your name and/or TIN, that is indicated on your account is different from the data on file with the IRS and/or SSA.
In order to verify the information on your account, please click here. (link leads to http://{int_link} -- I don't think that one will work, this site agrees)
Yours sincerely,
INTUIT INC.
Corporate Headquarters
2632 Marine Way
Mountain View, CA 94043
Version 2:
Dear Sir/Madam,
With intent to guarantee that correct data is being sustained on our systems, as well as to be able to grant you better quality of service; INTUIT INC. has partaken in the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] Name and TIN Matching Program.
We have discovered, that your name and/or Social Security Number, that is stated on your account does not match the information on file with the IRS.
In order to check and update your account, please enter the secure section. (link leads to http://{int_link} )
Yours sincerely,
INTUIT INC.
Corporate Headquarters
2632 Marine Way
Mountain View, CA 94043
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Yow! Homeland Security wants to send me money (right after they learn to write English). And it makes perfect sense that they're working with the United bank of Africa to make sure I get my money. Watch out for those flying pigs.
Sender: Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency/Georgia (sandra@iexpress.com.br)
Subject: STATUS OF YOUR TRANSACTION WITH THE HOMELAND SECURITY.
Text:
Attention
Greeting from Home Land security Emergency Management Georgia U.S.A.We are witting to inform you that you have a pending transaction to complete.You are by this notice required to complete the requirements for claiming your funds in our custody.Your fund value $300,000.00 dollars only in our custody which was deposited here by United bank of Africa (UBA),which information has it that it belongs to you all necessary information to contact you has been abortive because some official in our department want to transfer the fund into their private account.
So you are by this notice to contact us and claim your fund within the next four (4) working days or necessary actions will be taken by our team to terminate the transaction and return it back to Nigeria, were the compensation
is coming from.
Email Address: home.land.security.ga@secretarias.com
Mark Perez
Homeland Security Advisor
Georgia Department of Law Enforcement
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It's January, so "tis the season" is out. And the lame spammer couldn't even format the message, so there are no links or images.
Sender: Melissa Griffin (melissagriffin03a@rhonda42martinez.info)
Subject: Tis the Season for Warranty Sales
Here's a screenshot:
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Hmmm. The Yellow Pages using spam to get listings? The attachment is a PDF so it's most likely safe but not completely risk free. I searched for subject line and found an example of what I'm guessing is the attachment. The fine print at the bottom says:
We are compiling data for Yellow PagesUSA Corp. It is our objective to advertise your company products and service. List your production category and subcategory for goodsand service advertisement in your area. In order to include your company in our database, complete and return this letter of intent. Any additional company information,which may serve to update your profile, is appreciated.
Thank you for your cooperation.
ORDER:
SIGNING OF THIS DOCUMENT IS LEGALLY BINDING. PURSUANT TO THIS ORDER, THE SERVICE PROVIDER (“YELLOW PAGESUSA CORP”) IS OBLIGATED TOPLACE A DETAILED ENTRY AS LISTED, IN THE ONLINE DATABASE AT www.yellowpagesusa.com. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE OUR SERVICES, SUBSCRIBER ISREQUIRED TO PAY SUBSCRIPTION FEE. BY SIGNING THIS ORDER, SUBSCRIBER ACCEPTS FOLLOWING CONDITIONS AND CONDITIONS SPECIFIED IN THE“TERMS AND CONDITIONS” ON OUR WEBSITE AT www.yellowpagesusa.com. IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR “TERMS AND CONDITIONS”, CONTRACT LENGTH IS12 MONTH AND WILL COMMENCE ON THE EIGHTH (8) DAY AFTER SUBSCRIBERS SIGNING OF CONTRACT. UNLESS CANCELLED BY EITHER PARTY CONTRACTWILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EVERY 12 MONTH. ONLINE ENTRY WILL BE INITIATED AFTER SERVICE PROVIDER (“YELLOW PAGESUSA CORP”) IS IN RECEIPTOF SIGNED ORDER. SUBSCRIBER’S DATA WILL BE KEPT ON FILE UNTIL CANCELLED. DURING THIS TIME, SUBSCRIBER AGREES TO AN ANNUAL RENEWAL FEEOF U$D 398.00 WHICH WILL BE BILLED PER ANNUM, UNLESS SUBSCRIBER CANCELS IN WRITING THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRATION. THEPLACE OF JURISDICTION FOR ALL DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS SHALL BE PROVIDERS (“YELLOW PAGESUSA CORP”)PLACE OF BUSINESS. AGREEMENT BETWEEN SERVICE PROVIDER AND SUBSCRIBER IS GOVERNED BY THE “TERMS AND CONDITIONS” AS STATED ON OURWEBSITE www.yellowpagesusa.com. THIS IS A SOLICITATION FOR THE ORDER OF GOODS OR SERVICES, OR BOTH, AND NOT A BILL, INVOICE, OR STATEMENTOF ACCOUNT DUE. YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO MAKE ANY PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF THIS OFFER UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THIS OFFER.
Note that filling out the form obligates you to a $398 annual listing fee.
Sender: support@yellow-pages-usa.com
Subject: Validate Your Internet Listing - Yellow PagesUSA
Text:
Dear Customer:
Please verify your Company Data by printing, completing and signing the attached form.
FAX THE COMPLETED FORM TO: 843-282-0035
Or return the form to the following address:
Yellow PagesUSA Corp.
391 NW 179th Ave
Aloha, OR 97006
or
fax the completed form to: 843-282-0035
Phone 843-282-0301
Fax 843-282-0035
E-mail: info@yellow-pages-usa.com,
Website: www.yellow-pages-usa.com
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RECEIVE ANY FUTURE EMAILS FROM OUR COMPANY, PLEASE REPLY TO: unsubscribe@yellow-pages-usa.com
Removal requests sent to above address will be honored and respected.
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I'd never heard of Pandora Beads before, and this spam, posted as a comment on my blog, didn't make me want to have anything to do with them. But I do like the concept of "charm beans" and bottoms that can be interchanged.
Your charm beans are often silver or rhodium as well as gold plated by using as well as magnifying glaas along with can be found in not less than 900 styles Pandora Charms. All these drops symbolize this birthstones, sun signs, animals, alphabets, words, and at any given time Pandora Charms by using distinctive in addition to important layouts. Most of these broad choice ensure that there is absolutely no repeating regarding pattern. Your drops are created as who’s matches recent bracelet or perhaps necklace. If you decide to acquire necklace instead of beads alone, the collection might be additional individualized that will allure people cardiovascular system. That necklace trust can be purchased in ins and the necklace around your neck period is frequently inches wide. Your sizes and also bottoms may be interchanged in order that the options of toggle bracelet or maybe your necklace or maybe the keychain can be different to your account and it also may uses age groups to uncover its identical these days.
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