The email tells me that my Chase online banking has been disabled. I just need to click the link and reconfirm my account to have it restored. The message is from 1d3b0b5bca551a58da8722sx15a18df9a @934555677223786hxmw3u1t2vg0vimmsetgc.com which is not JP Morgan Chase so is an obvious fake, plus I don’t have a Chase bank account.

An email from Ward Serrano offers negative SEO work. Likely to be entirely fake as if you get cheated trying to buy an illegal service – who can you complain to? Negative SEO means basically sabotaging your competitors standing in the search engines and is a disgraceful practice. 

Biz-funding.co.uk send out vast amounts of spam messages offering unsecured loans. You just have to complete their eligibility checker to get a response. No thanks – I’m not giving my personal and financial details to a spammer.

An email tells us that the password for liveinlounge@ the radio station will expire in 6 hours and we should click to keep the same password. This is a simple phishing message, trying to get us to key in the password for that email account. However that email account doesn’t exist – the address was invented by a spammer so it cannot possibly expire when it doesn’t exist.

Karen Short from Accounts Receivable at a company we’ve never heard of tells us our invoice is now 60 days late for payment and unless we pay immediately they will take action against us. Good job this is all fantasy – we don’t owe anything to the non-existent company. Karen seems to have a personality disorder as her name changes twice in the email and she even forgot to attach the malware file she mentions in the message as being a copy of the alleged invoice.

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Karen has sent us our January bill and wants the £170.93 that we owe, to be paid straightaway. She says she sent us the bill in January and it’s now 30 days past due. It’s all lies of course – these criminals send out fake invoices by the million in the hope that some busy person will pay the bill rather than stopping to question it.

An email from Rhetorik Limited which is a data broker. The message claims to spell out their collection and use of data about me. However, all they actually have is a first name, plus the email address they sent this message to is one created by spammers so there is no such person. Pathetic. Do not respond to such messages as they are simply trying to gather data by provoking responses.

An email security alert arrives in the inbox. It says we must verify the account as otherwise it cannot be upgraded free of charge and instead will be suspended. The email account is actually one invented by a spammer selling email addresses and is caught in a catchall net. The message is from aunelas.com which is not the radio station or our email provider, so an obvious fake. These criminals are after your login and password so they can use them to steal from you.  

Whoopee! We’ve been sent a Congratulations message as we have been picked in the Facebook Covid 19 Pandemic Grant Support and we have won $5 million. Facebook are greedy and nasty and only do anything when it benefits them, so the win is untrue. However, this is not anything to do with Facebook as the message is from ftbgrantsupport.com which is a scammer’s website.

An email claims to be from Melissa Luna but is signed off as Sgt Helen Scott – both lies as the message is actually from lun-908-az109 which looks like a computer generated random email address. The message is sent to ‘Undisclosed Recipients’ which means it’s been sent as mass email – probably to tens of millions of people. The message says “Hello Dear, I need your urgent assistance. Please respond immediately”.  It’s just a meaningless message trying to get people to reply and they will then be pulled into a scam.

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Some scammers put a lot of effort into their messages but some are just lazy and dumb. An email claims to be from Western Union but is in fact from a Gmail account. It has just one line in it “we write to inform you that you’re listed among the recipients of the ongoing scam victims compensation”. A pathetic lie. The sender just wants a reply so she will another ‘fish’ on the line.

An email claims that the ancient Chinese never suffered from diabetes because they had a remedy that reversed diabetes. And it’s to do with a strange morning ritual they practiced.  China has the world’s biggest problem with diabetes so don’t you think if the country already had a diabetes cure they would have avoided that problem. All wishful thinking by a greedy scammer.

419 scams – that is the advance fee scam whereby someone promises you a fortune in return for something simple e.g. processing their money through your bank account, are very common. This latest one is a belt and braces job. The email is a sob story about suffering from Leukaemia and losing her wealthy husband to cancer etc. The sender includes a PDF of the same content and a jpg picture of the same again. She seems determined to get her scam message through. She claims to be Anna Cooper from Australia but her email sender’s address is actually kellyzang so some identity crisis there. It’s just a simple scam to catch out the greedy.

“The 10 second after dinner dementia trick” is the title of a latest email scam.  There are many of these about dementia and usually involve some magic potion. A supposed 10 second trick to boost your memory by 90% and also make you lose 63 pounds in weight. This scammer is hedging her best by offering a magic cure for dementia combined with weight loss. No thanks. I’ll stick to reality.

An email arrives claiming to be from 3 separate email addresses at the same time and that’s not easy. It contains an “rar” file and those are used for compressing archives, not for invoices. The scammers use these compressed file formats in an attempt to evade malware scanners used by the email service provides. The actual message claims we have hired equipment from a shipping company in Shanghai. Why send such an email to a .co.uk address when it cannot possibly be true? That’s weird.

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