Category: Scam email

September 19, 2017

Equifax Scam

Equifax recently suffered a massive data breach where the personal data of up to 44 million British consumers was stolen by hackers.

Scammers have leapt on this bandwagon – sending out huge numbers of scam messages about this.

A typical message claims to be from Equifax and states

“Warning – your confidential data is at risk.

Click here to review your profile and secure your information”

Equifax takes your security to be a matter of great importance.

The link is to a fake website setup to look enough like Equifax and designed to get you to enter your name, address, phone number and more. This is all information that can be sold to other scammers.

This is just a nasty phishing scam

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September 18, 2017

The Money for Nothing Scam

The email is from cargounit.com and is titled ‘Your parcel claim reminder notice’

It says

Dear Esteemed Customer,

Your package / diplomatic pouch is ready to be delivered. You have to call stating your last name and first name for us to verify your details and also send you your telephone number with which we can reach you in case we will need further details to confirm your booking for delivery.

This package is being sent to you from the European Financial Authorities as a highly classified package, so you should attend to this case promptly. You have to confirm if you wish to come to Italy for pickup of your cash or if you want us to deliver to you in your location.

And there’s a name and phone number.

This is a very simple scam. They offer you an unspecified amount of money but assumed to be a large sum. Plus a story to explain why they’re giving you the money and how to get it.

This is all dumb of course.

The emailer doesn’t know my name hence I am called dear customer.

There is no possible reason why the European Financial Authorities (there is no organisation of that name) should send me a diplomatic pouch full of money. And if anyone in authority did want to send me a package then they would have my name and address rather than sending an email asking for such basic information.

The scam is simple – hook a greedy idiot who wants to believe this drivel and then get his or her name, address, phone number and other details then get them to pay a customs release fee or delivery charge or something similar and keep changing the story and asking for more costs to be paid until eventually the victim realises they’ve been had and there is no diplomatic pouch full of cash.

Sad to say people do fall for these scams.

If someone you don’t know offers to give you money for nothing. It’s always a scam.

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September 17, 2017

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

An email arrived titled ‘Night View Sunglasses’ from nightviewsunglasses @bsttpriizee.bid

As Seen on TV Night View Glare Reduction

Glasses – Turn Fuzzy and Dull into Clear and

Bright… Especially at Night.

The product being advertised is anti-glare night time glasses. These are glasses with yellow lenses as they do reduce reflected glare at night time so are useful for driving at night.

The moron who created the email thinks that means they are sunglasses. Someone should explain to her that sunglasses protect against sunshine and there isn’t a lot of sunshine at night to worry about.

The email even claims the glasses provide 100% protection from UVA and UVB rays.

There isn’t any UV radiation at night to worry about.

Nevermind.

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September 16, 2017

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Apparently, my overdue payment of $3,500,000 has been released by the Federal Ministry of Finance in the Benin Republic and I can collect the money from Western Union. How nice – I’ll rush to the nearest Western Union with a big suitcase to collect my cash.

An email tells me it’s now possible to halt memory loss and restore memory in just 15 days. Over 9,336 people have done this already and I must join them. No thanks – I’ll keep my brain the way it is and not have my wallet emptied.

Get cash and stop maintenance fees for your Timeshare now. Some scammers have realised that there are a lot of people with Timeshares desperate to get rid of them and they are open to new approaches, though sadly these are lies.

Jenny regularly earns $250 for a 15 minute recording and Kevin earns $110 for 5 minutes of speaking English to his computer and I can do the same. Yeah – watch out for the flying pigs.

FREE – a new waterproof fire starter. Maybe out in the wilds but here in leafy Surrey – not exactly a lot of use.

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September 11, 2017

The Bitcoin Money Making Scam

Bitcoin is a cyber currency. This means there is no physical currency and it’s not controlled by a country or bank.

Bitcoin is probably the most widely used of the cyber currencies and is famous as the method of payment used by hackers, ransomware fraudsters and assorted other criminals.

Not all users of Bitcoin are criminals of course.

With cyber currencies there is method available for making more of it, but this is a very complex process and requires enormous amounts of computer power to do so. The more that is made the more difficult it becomes to make any more. This is to protect the value of the currency.

Emails have started to appear claiming that Bitcoin allows people to profit without paying any fees and that you can make Bitcoins every day.

“A group of clever Russian developers are working on a tool that will allow people to make Bitcoins every day”

“This is feared by the established banking institutions to the point of trying to ban it”

And so on with the usual rubbish in these scam emails.

It is a scam.

Bitcoin is not a guaranteed way to make money – it’s just a currency that is sadly abused by many to the detriment of others.

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September 10, 2017

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

An email titled “This miracle nutrient starves disease from your body”.

A catchy title but heralds the stupidity that follows.

There’s a nutrient that STARVES any harmful bacteria, germ or virus.

It’s not a nutrient if it causes starvation. Germ in this case means disease causing bacteria or virus hence “bacteria, germ or virus” is repetition.

Further on in the email, it claims the nutrient makes healthy cells grow stronger and faster. It also cures cancer and is anti-aging. So, there’s little it cannot do.

Plus it’s natural, non-toxic and has no side effects.

This scammer clearly hasn’t been warned about overkill.

Of course, as usual with these scams, Big Pharma is trying to destroy this, so you have to buy it before it disappears.

People will fall for a lot of stupid stories but when something is the answer to every problem – I hope even the most gullible cannot believe this.

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September 9, 2017

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Rapid Racking send out endless spam messages – this one saying only 4 days left of double discount. Can’t see anyone buying industrial racking just because of a small discount.

“Take Surveys For Cash”. Earn $390 by talking a few simple surveys. The truth is that people do make money filling in surveys online but its hours of slog for a pittance because there is huge demand for such work at home opportunities.

Don’t miss out on this new fat burning breakfast food. Turns out to be coconut oil, for which some people claim almost miraculous properties. But it is fat and certainly not a fat burner.

Now you can use 100% of your brain with this new product as shown on Shark Tank. This is the usual rubbish and the Shark Tank series is well known for sometimes showing scam products that they only realise after the show are fake.

A new report titled ‘The 7 Laws of Wealth Attraction”. This idea has been done to death long ago as half the planet did read about these supposed laws then wished they hadn’t bothered.

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September 7, 2017

Fake Review Websites

There is a common scam or spam called Fly Free Academy where the seller is trying to convince us that it’s perfectly possible to fly free of charge. How to book $1000 flights for $20 and so on.

Whether or not this is a scam or just a complex game where some people can get free or nearly free flights if they follow the instructions isn’t the point.

When you type in ‘Fly Free Academy scam” on Google it returns a lot of results starting with

Fly Free Academy Review – Worthy or Scam? – Neuromath

Then Free Academy Review – Does It Work? – Helen Reviews

Followed by Fly Free Academy Review – Derek Pankaew’s System a Scam?

Fly Free Academy – A To Z Product Reviews

My Shocking Fly Free Academy Review – Regionvavid.org

Then some YouTube videos by Fly Free Academy then more reviews

Fly Free Academy review – Richerornot

And so it goes on – there are dozens of these review sites.

But they’re all fake – they’ve been created by the sellers of Fly Free Academy and are just sales pitches wrapped up to look like reviews.

Is this illegal? No.

Is it wrong? If people realise these reviews are just sales pitches then no harm done but if people think these are independent reviews and not realise they are by the sellers of Fly Free Academy then that’s conning people.

The sellers have also posted reviews on other people’s sites and on social media and must have spent a lot of money and effort on this.

Honesty would be a better and cheaper policy. Don’t create fake reviews.

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September 4, 2017

Ridiculous Investment Opportunity

The email is supposedly from a Mrs. Melissa Gorgers, but the email is from darrmphy010@yahoo.com and reads

Dearest One,

please pardon me for not knowing your mindset before contacting you and it is very confidential, i live in Togo but my country of origin is Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and my name is Mrs. Melissa Gorgers the Wife of late Mr. Richard Gorgers, I pray that my plan with you Shall be of good success. After reading my message please kindly get back to me.

It’s my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which i intend to Establish in your country . Though I have not met with you before but I believe, One has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of 6.5 million U.S dollars (US$6.500, 000.00) Which my late husband kept in a security company in republic of Togo before he was Assassinated by unknown persons on his trip to France.

Now I and my daughter have decided to invest this money in your country or Anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons. We want you to help us to transfer these funds to your account for investment.

It goes on about how important this is and the need for confidentiality (because if you ask anyone about this they’ll tell you it’s a scam)

Then she asks what type of investment I recommend – property, clothes, charity, construction, transport etc.

And she offers me 25% for my efforts – that’s $1.625 million.

This is a typical Advance Fee scam, also known as a Nigerian 419 scam.

The scammer offers a very large sum of money for very little effort . This email doesn’t ask for any of my information as it’s just to start the scam. Once hooked she will no doubt provide lots of information, details of lawyers, accountants etc. and in time will come the need for me to pay small sums of money as release fees, or legal fees or something to keep the scam going.

Each time I pay will ‘definitely’ be the last such fee but then there will be another for some other reason and it keeps going until I stop paying.

Sad and pathetic.

Don’t be taken in by offers of free money – they are always scams.

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September 3, 2017

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

For some time there have been stupid emails about solar panels that are so cheap as to be almost free and how you can build your own solar panels at no cost.

These are ludicrous claims, but seem very popular with scammers so somebody must be replying to them.

e.g. The “20K Solar Panel System is Coming to an End”

Wall Street confirms all shareholders are selling hard after this weird cheap solution popped on the radar…”

The title of the email in this case is

“Dead visionary reveals Solar Industry’s most guarded secret”

I love the fact that the person doing the revealing is actually dead.

Probably cannot be sued for lying in that case.

The email continues

Unlimited energy for less than 80 cents a day, without paying one nickel more to their energy supplier.

Most people have learned by now that solar panels can be a good idea in places where there is a great deal of sunshine – Florida, the Mediterranean area etc. but a terrible idea in temperate countries such as Britain and much of America.

As to the big secret – there isn’t one. The economics of solar panel are well known and lots of companies make them and they all perform at a similar level depending on the quality of components they use and the exact design.

Solar Panels are becoming cheaper each year due to the increased volumes of production and improving technology, but it’s a progressive process – there is no magic answer that gives zero cost solar panels.

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