Mohammed Abdulahim tells me he’s a relationship officer in a wealth management company and wants me to help him invest his customer’s money.  He would have to pretty bad at his job to ask for investment guidance from strangers via spam emails. But of course, he’s a scammer looking to trap greedy people.

Win a £250 Morrisons gift card says the email. There is no such things as a £250 gift card from Morrisons and they have nothing to do with these scams.  It’s just a phishing scams looking to get confidential information from people stupid enough to reply to the message.

Next is a more detailed message starting with the title “The #1 nutrient deficiency that’s making you ill”. It then goes on about how bacteria and viruses enter your body cells because of a deficiency, which of course the message sender can fix. In case you’re not convinced the end of the email also says that this nutrient will make you lose weight without otherwise changing your diet or doing any exercise.  This scammer tells a good story but clearly thinks people are stupid. Let’s hope no-one is stupid enough to reply to him.

An email containing my payroll slip has good news – that I have a £295 winter holiday gift from the company I work for. However the email is from smokymountainnaturals and I do not work for them and have never hard of them so sadly it’s just a scam.

Yet another con targeting people suffering from diabetes. The title of this one is ‘It’s possible your beta cells look like this”.  What are beta cells? The email doesn’t explain but it’s mean to sound scientific and the message continues with a story about how doing ‘this’ for just 5 seconds a day will control my blood sugar effortlessly. Sounds dramatic but is obviously yet another lie by a sick scammer.

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This is a more specialist spam message as it is targeting people who have bought an off-plan home in Spain and lost money for whatever reason. Spain is very popular for British people wanting more sunshine but there cannot be a huge number who have the specified problem surely? The message sender claims she can help but is clearly only experienced in Marketing and the list of things they can do contains one item left over from a previous message as it says ‘biggest medical breakthrough of the decade’. Just a dumb scammer.  

Cannabis oil and products made from Cannabis derivatives are in the news a lot and many scammers have jumped on this bandwagon claiming to offer the real thing. A latest email takes this one stage further as it offers crunchy cat bites containing cannabis oil.   Is this sender bonkers? I would say definitely yes.

An email from Aniseh Farzin just contains one sentence. “How RU doing?”. This is a spam list seller trying to find out which emails on her spam list are active as she can charge more for those ones. Never reply to emails form someone you don’t know. 

Evelyn Hernandez kindly sent me the updated Personnel policy document for me to review and return the acknowledgement slip, noting that this is mandatory for all staff.  But, in reality, she is just a scammer trying to get me to open an infected document. No thanks Evelyn.

There are endless scammers offering very low interest loans for anything I want to spend the money on and equal numbers offering investment in my business (whatever that is, as they don’t even know my name) and there is now a set that appear to come from government organisations in Paraguay. There have been data breaches and other hacking events at several government organisations in Paraguay and now scammers are using access to government email addresses to send out their spam messages. Ignore emails from the “py” suffix (Paraguay) unless you know the person it’s from.

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