I received the following SMS today:
Need airtime?Buy it with your Visa or Visa Electron card at most supermarkets. No need to draw cash- U get 1 eXactcredit-To stop msgs,sms STOP SMS to 32227(R1)Firstly, this is pure spam. Secondly, they want to charge me to use a premium service to remove myself from their list. This is, to me, completely ( Read more... )

I got this on my CLUG address, of all things.

HTML stripped (because it's ugly), email addresses of the guilty left intact.

Note at the end how they're offering me their spam database as well.

From: Database Programs <databaseprograms@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Database Development for R5500!

To reply or be removed send email to: lwdatabasedev@yahoo. ( Read more... )

This is the best 419 scam email I have ever received:

From: "john mitchell" Subject: From: John Mitchell ( Read more... )

I received an email today from a mailing list to which I did not subscribe. It was a Christian evangelistic email that started as follows:

From: goodword@niconet.za.net ( Read more... )

The recent spate of stock-market spam I have been receiving has tended toward rather more interesting and slightly surreal subject lines than is usually the case with spam.

Today I was exhorted to purchase shares with the following: At bowmansdale be mcdougalThis immediately flooded my head with images of mercenary English archers selling their ( Read more... )

I won't put the content of the spam I received here, but here's my reply:

To: Hafsah Suleman <202501495@ukzn.ac.za>
Cc: Subject: Re: Lift offered from Chatsworth [...] (A response to a very unwelcome email ( Read more... )