Category: Spam

February 5, 2020

Email Predictions

The Radicati Group www.radicati.com/ carry out research into email usage, security, social networking, web technologies and more.

The information below is from their assessment of world email, covering the period 2019 – 2023.

The total number of business and consumer emails sent and received per day will exceed 293 billion in 2019, and is forecast to grow to over 347 billion by year-end 2023.

The number of worldwide email users will top 3.9 billion in 2019, and is expected to grow to over 4.3 billion by the end of 2023. Over half of the world population uses email in 2019

The number of worldwide email accounts is expected to continue to grow at a slightly faster pace than the number of worldwide email users. This is particularly true of consumer email accounts, where many consumers tend to have multiple email accounts for different purposes (e.g. shopping vs. friends and family).

It’s clear that email is here to stay and will only increase in usage and importance.

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January 1, 2020

Spam Email Statistics 2019

Around 30 billion emails are sent each day and about half of those are spam in some form.

That spam is made up as follows:

Does Spam Work?

A proportion of the spam messages are just lazy advertising by genuine companies but vast amounts of it is scam messages of various kinds.

How effective the scam messages are in getting a response depends very much on exactly what it is. But typically, scam messages receive 1 reply in more than a million messages.

That seems extremely ineffective, but if the scammer sends enough millions of messages then they will get sufficient replies to enable them to steal from people.

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November 16, 2019

Time-Wasters Update

An email message tells me I have 9 notifications waiting to be read. Sounds important. But it’s from snakeriverlodge.com which I have never heard of so it’s a scam.

Apparently I can supercharge my brain using an old and controversial trick which is based on medical studies from top universities. This trick boosts my brain power by 380% in 14 days and it has already helped 34,878 people. Considering it’s from top universities and has helped so many people, it is surprising that no-one has ever heard of it and it has to be advertised by spam email to made-up email addresses. Pathetic.

News Special. CBS News announce a ‘stupidly simple’ Greek ritual you must do every night to reverse your diabetes and make you lose 56 lbs of unwanted fat. There is no such news from CBS and no such ritual. The cure for diabetes type II is to lose fat down to your optimum weight, eat a Mediterranean diet and take regular exercise. There are no magic rituals.

An email titled ‘How to Change Your Life?” sounds interesting but it’s just an empty email with a pdf attachment that is infected with a virus. Many people believe that PDF files are safe to open but that’s not the case. You should always virus check any PDFs that arrive via the Internet or email.

Dr. Ryan Shelton tells me that sagging skin and wrinkles has almost nothing to do with getting old. The real reason is that your body no longer produces collagen and elastin but he has a new very simple method to turn your body back to making those proteins and hence make you look much younger. This is one of the holy grails of the cosmetics industry and billions is spent each year on research to find an answer to wrinkles. An assortment of cosmetics on the high street shows some progress is being made but there’s no magic answer as yet. There is no doctor Ryan Shelton of course – just a scammer trying to steal your money.

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November 10, 2019

Stupidest Spam of the Week Chinese Christmas

There is a Chinese company named Shelark and they sell lots of household products including Christmas trees and decorations etc.

The email received from Liana of Shelark looks very much like a scam message and although that’s unlikely to be true, it is however a very stupid piece of spam.

The message starts with “Glad to learned from Social e-commerce that you are doing the Fashion Accessories Business”.

Not true so that marks the message as spam.

The message continues “We supply Fashion Accessoreis to Various countries market for several years. All our products are manufactured strictly and provided to over 30 countries already”.

For just one sentence, it manages to include several examples of poor English grammar and a misspelling.

The poor grammar would be understandable if the message had been translated by a computer – but the misspelling rules that out. It must have been mistranslated by a person with no access to a dictionary.

It’s a stupid and pointless message – no-one wants to buy from a company that sends out badly written spam messages.

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October 12, 2019

Time-Wasters Update

A strange email wishes Happy Birthday to Ogenna Andrew and says “Your brothers ands sisters in Nigeria are wishing you a glorious birthday as you turn 21 today”. Is it possible the family are dumb enough to send their son’s email to a random other email? Seems extremely unlikely, whereas it’s very likely that it’s just a scammers message trying to get a reply so they can tell which email addresses are live.

Next email offers a personalised travel itinerary – everything from flights to train tickets to event tickets sim cards to yachts. Just rubbish from a Russian scammer who cannot be bothered to find something of interest to offer. Only an idiot would trust such an email to be anything other than a scam.

Everyone knows that smoke detectors in your home are a useful safety protection. They are available in DIY stores, supermarkets, online and are generally quite cheap. For some reason, scammers have caught onto smoke detectors and seem to be trying to find ways to push them using the common scammer techniques. The latest one is from painfatburn.top which is obviously nothing to do with smoke detectors – just a scammer re-using a domain name. This one claims the smoke detector is more advanced than any other but doesn’t explain how that it true. Just a simple scam.

“You are a supercomputer with old software” is a strange opening line for a scammer’s email. This one is supposedly offering a ‘miraculous’ way to make your dreams come true using science to switch the quantum particles controlling your life. It’s just an idiot scammer who has picked out scientific words intended to appeal to people with no idea of what the science means.

“Washing your body with cancer?” is the opening line of a scammer’s email trying to frighten people into watching a video that warns you which soaps etc. you must stop using. It’s all fake – just trying to get viewers for a random video.

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October 5, 2019

Time-Wasters Update

Fabian who is Director of Foreign Operations Telex Section is now ready to transmit the money to my bank account. I just have to give him my bank details and wait for the money to arrive. Sounds good but I don’t know Fabian and does anyone use a Telex anymore? – I thought they were last seen in Noah’s ark.

Reverse dementia by taking this drink every morning with your breakfast. It is known as “‘Dracula’s Secret”. At least this scammer is a little inventive though the message is complete rubbish of course. It even goes on to claim the recipe was found in the Vatican in a secret manuscript. Someone has been reading too many Dan Brown novels.

“Awesome! This is by far the most useful thing on the topic I’ve ever found”. If you receive a random meaningless message from someone you don’t know then you would sensibly delete it, not click the link as only someone dumb would do that.

Many scammers offer the most ridiculous messages but even so they must get some replies, or they wouldn’t do it. ”Regrow all your hair with 2 drops of conditioner. Sit in the shower and rub your head with this silky lotion. Your hair will come back in 2 days”. That sounds like a bad fairy story, but it’s just a very obvious scam.

“Dear user. Due to recent security Upgrade, Yahoo customers will have to Verify their email within 24 hours to avoid Termination. Kindly open attachment for easy Verification of your account! Thank you for taking additional step to secure your Mailbox”. Just the normal lies of an email scammer.

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