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Galadriel
28 June 2006, 04:23
It seems all of a sudden my email is being hit with these fraud emails either fake lotteries or these job offers from some fake company such as this:

"COMPANY AGENT NEEDED"
Dear friend,
It is my pleasure to write you in
respect of our Company Wujiang Wanlida Textile Co., Ltd.
No.6 The Third District Nanshan Road, Shengze, Wujiang City, Jiangsu
Province. China.
We are experts in the sale of Textile materials; we export into the United States and Canada. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of easily getting to our customers in these areas as well as making payments through you to us as our representative. Please if you are interested in representing us you will be entitled to ten percent (10%) of any payment made to you for your agent fee. If you are interested please send the following information below:
1.FULL NAMES:
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3.PHONE NUMBERS:

On our receipt of the above contact information we shall conmence our verification and your endorsement as our company representative in your province. Kindly reply back to show your intrest so that i can get more informations across to you. Kindest Regards,
Mr. Cheung Lee
Company Director.
Wujiang Wanlida Textile Co., Ltd.

I hardly ever got spam emails, and now I'm getting 4 emails a day or more! I've had 3 of these "job offers" with the same format only the name is different in one week! What is the change? I've never seen emails like this before and now they seem to be pouring into my email address. And I would like to know why I'm getting these all of a sudden, and how I can stop getting this garbage! Could it be a new server? I've had SBC-Yahoo, and no problems. Since the merge with AT&T, could there be a leak somewhere or what? What can I do to stop this stuff?

Daneel
28 June 2006, 05:13
Hi,

Your email address probably got added to one of those lists of addresses that the scam spammers trade between each other. If you posted it anywhere in public, on a forum like this or in a guestbook for example, they'll probably find it sooner or later. Turn on a spam filter if you have one. Or just get a new address, and only give it out to friends :)