Is it just me, or has there been a tsunami of junk mail and spam comments during the past 48 hours or so? WordPress currently has 17 comments in the Spam queue, which normally has maybe 2 or 3  at the most at any time.

WordPress Spam queue.

I also must have had about 50 messages in my email, much more than usual. The filters in Windows Live Mail are working pretty well, though. I’m glad that I replaced Outlook Express with it, although it took me a bit of time to get used to it. I just wish they had listened to my suggestion to show how many messages are in the storage folders, as it was in Outlook Express. It’s impossible to tell that there are any new messages in them when they’re all closed, and I have several email accounts, so I have some of the mail moved automatically to storage folders, and don’t keep my storage folders open because there’s just too many of them. I’m using Quick Views to get around that, by displaying all unread messages, but I’d still like to see the message counts on the storage folders, even if only optionally.

I just received this interesting piece of email. They’re getting pretty creative now. Who would fall for this? 

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $10,000,000  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 a Certified Cashier’s Check.

Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an International Check to be cashed 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 United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $10,000,000 USD has been deposited with Bank Of America.

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 at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -

(1) Deposit Fee’s ( Fee’s paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is – Bank Of America )
(2) Cashier’s Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier’s Check )
(3) Shipping Fee’s ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier’s Check to your home address and this fee includes Insurance )

The total amount for everything is $500.00 (Five Hundred-US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $500.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America 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 via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Franco Coppola) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

Email Address;  officeoflotto9@gmail.com

Name To Contact;  Franco Coppola

PHONE NUMBER; +234-8088-372-175

Should in case you need any more informations in regards to this notification,
feel free to get back to us so that we can brief you more as we are here to
guide you during and after this project has been completely perfected and you
have received your contract fund as stated.Thank you very much for your
anticipated co-operation in advance as we earnestly await your urgent response
to this matter.
BEST REGARDS

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA Email: fraudalertfbi87@live.com

I received an interesting e-mail today, as well as the usual prescription drugs ones.

The subject is a simple “hi”, followed by this message:

This is another evil cut and paste job or bot, and not a real girl at all.
What’s different about this one is that they usually claim that the email address they sent the message from isn’t theirs. They instruct you to send your reply to an alternate address, usually an address such as something@suspicioussoundingdomain.info.
It seems that they’re getting a bit smarter now, but it’s still suspect. It was not sent from the gmail server, and the sender’s IP is from an IANA Reserved IP address range.
And obviously, I’m not on any dating sites… I really don’t need them

I received an interesting email yesterday. It has the subject: “looking for you”, and it was sent to info@railwolf.com, an address which I don’t use, which makes it even more suspicious.
Here it is for your enjoyment: