anyone else getting these friggin emails

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got 5 of these today and my spam filter isnt picking them up

Hi... I'm sending you this email as you are a past contact of mine on ebay and you have purchased goods from me in the past or I have from you.....I don't normally believe in this sort of thing but for three quid I thought I'd give it a go! YOU NEED A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FOR THIS TO WORK! SORRY TO HAVE BOTHERED YOU IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ONE AND PLEASE DO NOT BE OFFENDED BY THIS AS I'M SURE WE ALL LIKE MAKING MONEY AND I HAVE NO IDEA IF IT WORKS BUT FOR £3.00 I WILL NOT LOSE ANY SLEEP OVER IT. Anyway I've given it a go and I'm waiting with my fingers crossed for some beer money! Please ignore this if you are not interested and I am sorry to have troubled you!!!!! If, however, your curiosity will get the better of you like me......please read to the bottom of the email! Mathew ALL I THINK IS AT THE END OF THE DAY MY ATTITUDE IS IF IT DOESN'T WORK THEN IVE ONLY LOST 3 POUNDS "!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a copy of the original advert that I have now taken part in. If I have joined then I can only guess that many others will too, and that's how the whole thing works: You may have seen an email floating around about making huge amounts of money through your Paypal account? Whether you have or not, i'm sending you this to tell you that the scheme actually works and Paypal have actually admitted its legal! Please read on and see what you think. If you want to participate, please just copy this email replace my message with your own and send it to all your contacts. YOU CAN GATHER ALL PAST CONTACTS EMAIL ADDRESSES THROUGH YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT HISTORY Before we go any further I would like you to know straight away that this will cost you £3 and about 20- 30 minutes of your time. If you are still interested please read on. Now I am not promising that you are going to make£££££'s in 30 days but I must admit the odds look excellent, and the 2nd excellent thing about this business plan is that it can be done by anyone anywhere in the world and your total investment stays at just £3. These are some of the emails and proof that I was given which finally made me decide that I wanted to try this. "What an amazing plan. I followed the instructionsjust 3 weeks ago, and although I haven't made 10grand yet, I am already up to £6,135. I am absolutely gobsmacked" - Alan Humphries, Leicester "Well what can I say? I sent out 40 emails like the plan said then I just forgot about the wholething. To be honest, I didn't really think anything would comeof it, but I checked my Paypal account a week later and there was over £3000.00 in it!!! After 30days I now have over £11,000 to spend"- Lisa McDonald, Northampton "I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my Paypal account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to £7,449. At first I thought there had been some kind of error!" - Richard Barrie,Cirencester Well that's it. I hope that you decide to go ahead with it. If you decide that this isn't for you I wish you all the best in the future and please remember you can always pass it on even if you don't wish to do it yourself. INSTRUCTIONS: * The first thing you need to do is send a £3.00 payment from your Paypal account to the FIRST email address on the list below, along with a note saying "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST". Instructions on how to send a payment are under "SEND MONEY" at the Paypal site. It is very easy. when making a payment of £3.00, paypal ask what the payment is for, I used the SERVICES option when I just made my payment. The current list is: 1 [email protected] 2 [email protected] 3 [email protected] 4 [email protected] 5 [email protected] The last thing you need to do is copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes) Remove the email address from the number 1 spot, move all the others up a space, and insert your own email address in the number 5 spot THIS HAS TO BE DONE FOR IT ALL TO WORK. Then send the page to as many people as you can,a good way is to send it to all the people in your paypal history. You may also wish to advertise this on message boards,auction sites etc In no time at all, you should have reached the number 1 spot and the money will start coming to your paypal account !!!!!! ALL I WOULD LIKE TO DO NOW IS WISH YOU GOOD LUCK IF YOU ARE STILL UNSURE OR EVEN IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS PLEASE READ ON HERE'S HOW IT WORKS When you send out your email, your email address will initially be at No 5 on the list. That is the best position that you can be in if you want to earn serious money. The response rate for this program is much higher than any typical email marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are explained later on. As long as you send out your emails to people whom are likely to be interested in this program, then on average you can expect a response of around 25%. But let's be extremely conservative and assume that the average response rate is 12.5%! If you send out your 40 emails, you can expect at least 5 of those people to do exactly what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5 people). By the time your email address will have moved up to No 4 in the list, and this list will now have reached around 200 people (5 people x 40 emails = 200 people). Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of them to participate (12.5% of 200 = 25 people) so you are now reaching around 1000 people (25 people x 40 emails = 1000) and you are now at No 3 on the list. Out of those 1000 people, you can expect at least 125 of them to participate (12.5% of 1000 = 125 people) so you are now reaching around 5000 people (125 people x 40 emails = 5000) and you are now at No 2 on the list. Out of those 5000 people, you can expect at least 625 of them to participate (12.5% of 5000 = 625 people) so you are now reaching around 25000 people (625 people x 40 emails = 25000) and you are now at No 1 on the list. Out of 25000 people, you can expect at least 3125 of them to participate (12.5% of 25000 = 3125 people) so since you are at the No 1 spot you can expect to receive around about £9,375 (3125 people x £3.00 = £9,375) So when your name hit's the No 1 spot, it will be YOUR turn to collect the money. Over the course of 30 days, this money will be sent to you by a few thousand people just like yourself, who are willing to invest £3.00 and 20 minutes of their time to receive around £10,000 or more in cash. The first payments will arrive within a few days and then they will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per day for about 30 days (obviously this will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly people take you up on this offer and then pass it on). After that time, the volume of payments begin to taper off as your email is removed from the No 1 position. That's all you need to do! There will be around £10,000 in £3.00 payments waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks. £10,000 for just 30 minutes work! This is real money that you can spend on anything you wish! Just deposit it to your own bank account or spend it directly from your Paypal account!!! It's just that easy!!! I think it's WORTH IT, don't you? Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35 out of the 40 people you send your email to will do absolutely nothing except delete your email. However, if you follow the plan correctly and send your emails only to people who are likely to want to participate, you can expect a typical response-rate of around 25%. Hence, the 12.5% example is only given as a worst-case-scenario. Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will only send out 40 emails. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out 1,000 emails instead of just 40! Believe me, many people will do this and much more! Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £3.00 which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster results. Only the first person on the list gets your £3.00 gift, but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1 position as thousands of emails are being sent out. No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by claims that this system can be cheated) as Paypal only allows one account per person. Because it is so easy, the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST - Internet email FAST, and you will start seeing dramatic results in less than one week! JUST IN TIME FOR NEXT MONTHS BILLS! Thank you, and good luck in your ventures Ps . You can download your paypal history as a MS Excel file, this is a great way to quickly access all your stored email address's from your paypal transactions, to send this email on to others - I did it by cutting and pasting but I am sure there is an easier way!! :) -- Kind regards ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com
 
Just send abusive messages back to the sender... That usually stops it for me.
 
I got one recently saying:

Dear Paul *******,Two days ago you sent a payment to alig***@gmail.com. This payment is still unclaimed. Often, unclaimed payments are a result of a payment being sent to a misspelled or otherwise incorrect email address. Please double-check to make sure you sent your payment to the intended recipient's correct email address.One common cause of unclaimed payments is that the intended recipient has two duplicate email addresses, but only one version of it has been registered to their PayPal account. The four most common examples of this are: [email protected] & [email protected]; [email protected] & [email protected]; [email protected] & [email protected]; and [email protected] & [email protected]. So if your recipient has an @webtv, @msn, @earthlink, or @att email address, please verify that you have sent it to the version of this address which is attached to their PayPal account.If you did not intend to send a payment to [email protected], it is easy to cancel the transaction:1. Log in to your PayPal account2. Go to the 'History' subtab of the 'My Account' tab and find this transaction (with a status of 'Unclaimed').3. Press the 'Cancel' button in the 'Action' column.4. On the confirmation page, press the 'Cancel Payment' button to confirm. Your payment will be cancelled and the funds returned to your PayPal account.If you intended to send a payment to someone who is not yet a member of PayPal, you can forward them the reminder message below, which explains how to sign up for a PayPal account and accept your payment.Yours sincerely,PayPal OperationsPlease do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.


Thing is, I sent payment to the bloke, item was sent same day, but it was sent to a different but similar address and shows up as claimed on ebay and paypal??
 
I know what C++ is and I'm not afraid to use it... very few people **** me off either :D

EDIT: Although I think thats because I'm to busy getting monitor radiation burn.
 
That's what I of course thought and checked it all out, but, as far as I can see, the email did come from paypal...?
 
Ah I see, I never knew what happened if you sent to their wrong email addy, I was scared it disappeared into nowhere! (i.e. paypal's coffers).

It's a very cheeky thing to do, a lot of people would repay IMO.
 
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