Category: Scam email

February 23, 2020

Stupidest Spam of the Week Fruit Flab

“Bedtime fruit melts belly fat fast” is the headline to grab your attention.

There are a lot of these sorts of scams – millions of people would love there to be some magic remedy that will melt away unwanted stomach fat but with no effort needed.

Such remedies do not exist.

Weight loss only occurs wh
en you consume fewer calories than you burn in your general metabolism and in exercise
There is no way to target belly fat with anything you eat. When you lose weight, your body decides where the fat is lost.

The instructions for this magic fruit are that it must be eaten exactly one hour before you go to sleep (and after 7pm) and it will flush away all unwanted fat.

The scammer says her friend’s sister lost 61 pounds in no time by eating this fruit.

The whole thing is fantasy for gullible people.

These ‘magic’ remedies are always fake.

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February 22, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Since 533 BC Indian shamans have been using this miracle ingredient to heal wounds, stop cancer and prevent diabetes. Now it’s available to Americans and is proven to treat 619 diseases. Imaginative rubbish from yet another scammer.

An email from klehmanhscitro @citromail.hu claims he is actually Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations and he needs my name, address, phone numbers, occupation, address etc. Nope. Just a pathetic scammer who has made absolutely no effort to make his email appear genuine.

Vincent M. sent one of the dozens of SEO emails received today at the radio station. He claims he has been researching our website and compared it to other businesses in our industry and thinks we have a better website and brand than those on page 1 of Google so he can help us. But he doesn’t mention what we do, what our industry is or any competitors, so the email is clearly just a general purpose one sent to everyone on his spam list. People seem to think it’s OK to lie in Marketing emails and just make up anything they feel like. WRONG – it’s still lying.

Richard G. emails to warn me that is the last chance to get The Small Shop at such a low price. He says it’s his last email and then I’ve missed it. Shame. Never heard of The Small Shop and glad of it.

Siddiq Ahamed of Voltech Group sent in a request complaining that he has been unable to get me by phone and urgently needs the goods he agreed to buy. He attaches the order (as a zipped file) and awaits my proforma invoice and delivery details. All fake. Never heard of him or his company and certainly have not agreed to deliveries of anything. The zipped file he attached to the email is no doubt loaded with malware.

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February 20, 2020

Work from Home Scams

There are large numbers of people who work at home as writers, consultants, Marketeers, IT, sales, translators etc. but there is also a big demand for part time jobs that can be done at home without needing such specialised skills and knowledge.

These can include work such as article writing, cold calling, proof-reading, Internet research, customer service, data entry, social media, search engine optimisation and thousands of other opportunities.

Figures suggest that 95% of emails offering work from home are scams, so you need to be careful and check up as much as possible before signing up to any such offer.

One site with genuine work at home jobs is Working Mums at www.workingmums.co.uk/home-working-jobs/

Warning Signs

Anything that seems too good to be true is likely to be a scam. People do not pay high wages for simple tasks to be done.
They ask for money up-front, with the promise that you’ll make it back many times over. Unlikely.
There is no personal contact – a job stuffing envelopes may not need an inter=view or any personal contact but anything more complicated does.
They use a personal email account e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. and their web site is not very professional or even non existent.
The job description is vague means it’s a scam designed to suck in as many people as possible. People intending to pay for someone to do a job of work know what they want done and can describe it.
There’s little available information about the company and the people who work there.

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February 15, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

“This controversial video will blow your mind. Have you seen this 54 second pain relief?”. Standard scammer language to get you to click a random video clip for which they get paid. A lot of people suffer from long term pain so the scammers think they are a good target for a scam. There is no magic answer of course.

Yet another scam email offering a magic way to lose weight with no effort. “Can you really lose 10 lbs and 7.5 inches off your waistline in 14 days?”. Then it goes on about your body’s natural metabolic multipliers – all fantasy rubbish. Supposedly the magic answer is just a few simple movements. This scammer is too dumb to make the weight lost and the inches lost match – 10 lbs for most people would be around 1 inch from their waistline, not 7.5 inches. Typical scammer lies.

Mrs. Teresa A. Rutledge, Director for International Banking Supervision, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Administrator of National Banks in Washington sent a very long official looking email about how my payment has been authorised for immediate release. The email gives specific instructions on how to contact Atom Bank in Northumberland to receive the PIN number so they can release my money by Swift telegraphic transfer. It is just a standard 419 scam where a huge reward is promised and I just have to supply the relevant information and supposedly it will be released. Of course, that never happens as there is no reward, just a scammer who needs a small payment then another then another until the victim realises it’s fake and stops paying. Sad and pathetic.

Researchers at Harvard have discovered a metabolic glitch inside cells that means we can now turn off all fat cells and watch the fat flush itself away. No – just the fantasies of a scam artist intent on stealing from people struggling with their weight.

Doctor Ryan Shelton wants to give me a gift that will wipe 10 years off my age. No way – just another dumb greedy scammer.

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February 9, 2020

Stupidest Spam of the Week Holy Anointing Oil

“The discovery that will send chills down your spine” is a title that grabs your attention, but it’s also bound to be from a scammer as only scammers write this kind of rubbish.

Then the email gets pretty stupid with an overload of statements to prove its authenticity.

“Mentioned in the bible 100 times”.

“the key to beating diabetes, cancer, obesity and most illnesses and conditions”.

“used in ancient Egyptian times”.

It’s supposed to be a secret that the drug companies are terrified of people finding out about and that doctors are furious, but it also says that 20,000 Americans have already used this method to heal their bodies, so it cannot be a secret.

What is it?

It’s supposedly something in holy anointing oil and you have to watch the video to find out.

No thanks. Keep your imaginary rubbish.

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February 8, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

“Still paying horrendous bills to heat your home? STOP NOW” is the promise of the email. It goes on to promise you can heat your home for a fraction of the usual price, using a small contact heater with a digitally controlled temperature. In other words, it’s just a standard heater being sold as something brand new which it isn’t. Buy from a reputable supplier, not a scammer.

Duncan says “Hello, I have a mutual benefit transaction for you. If you are interested, please reply for more details ASAP.”. He’s just a pathetic scammer using an Argentinian email address to check which of his spam email addresses is a real email account. Then he will sell that list of email addresses that got a response, to some other criminals.

“What a serial robber thought was just another break-in turned out to be the most frightening night of his life as Police arrested him crippled on the living room floor screaming for them to keep away from him a 10 year old boy.“ This sounds like a very silly fantasy story but it gets even more silly as the little boy had supposedly learned the “Death Touch” created by a Kung Fu master from a YouTube video clip. The point of the silly message is to get you to watch a video clip. The scammer gets paid for each person who clicks on the video so it doesn’t matter what stupid story is told – anything to make you click to watch. Pathetic.

Another scam email offering a magical cure – this time it cures asthma, the common cold, flu, smoker’s cough, bronchitis, Cystic Fibrosis and lots more. It’s a new revolutionary dry salt inhaler and costs less than $21. Totally ridiculous. For example – smoker’s cough is caused by damage to the lungs and cannot be cured by any magical inhaler as it takes years for the lungs to gradually heal themselves.

“Have you seen this memory boosting junk food?” is designed to be an intriguing title for an email to get people to open the message. The contents are the usual scammer lies of course – “click here to learn about this amazing discovery. This secret has already benefitted over 10,5671 people so far. Try now before the government removes this link”. There is no secret of course – just a pathetic scammer sending out the usual rubbish to get people to click a link.

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