Category: Scam email

January 19, 2020

Stupidest Spam of the Week Fund Restored

There are endless 419 scams – these are the ones where some kind of treasure is offered, such as an inheritance from someone you’ve never heard of, or a package left at an airport or port that only you can access. If you accept then you have to provide lots of personal information and pay a small fee then another fee then another fee and so on till you realise it’s a con and stop paying.

This new version offers compensation of $5 million from the Nigerian government for any previous attempts to con you with a 419 scam and you just have to provide that same personal information to claim the money.

It’s all just the same scam of course. There is no compensation. How could the Nigerian government pay out $5 million to everyone who’s received a 419 scam email? It would bankrupt them.

Is anyone dumb enough to fall for this?

I hope not.

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January 18, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

“70 year old man has IQ over 140”. The writer of this headline apparently thinks it will be a shock to people, but there are plenty of people of 70 and older with an IQ above 140. There are 50,000 members of Mensa America and that takes an IQ of 130 to get in. However, the scammer’s message is that that scientists have unlocked a secret nerve growth factor and if you take it then your IQ will double. The scammer can provide the secret ingredient of course. There is no such product. If the scammer’s IQ was doubled it would still be near zero.

Apparently, a new study has shown that the diet of a small isolated tribe makes them immune to high blood pressure. You just have to watch the video (link provided) to prove it to you and this has already saved the lives of 24,000 people. Ludicrous rubbish.

David Jim Brown is Head Officer-in-Charge at the Administrative Service Unit of the United Nations Inspection Agency and he has discovered an abandoned shipment transferred into Atlanta airport. The consignment contains $8 million cash and I just need to confirm my full name, address and contact details and he can release the consignment to me. Your fantasy money is nothing to do with me – good job you don’t even know my name.

Timeshare Brokers offer a free Timeshare market analysis to help me sell the Timeshare I don’t have. Ridiculous. They want to find people with Timeshares to sell and then will con them into paying for their services which don’t exist.

As a man you spend 65,520 minutes of your life shaving according to a latest email selling a new razor. That number is too exact but we men do spend time every day shaving and it can irritate the skin for some. This new razor does away with the need for shaving cream or anything similar supposedly. Seems unlikely and the email is from lorofumloe5610ar.icu so is likely from a scammer.

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January 13, 2020

The Free Lotto Company Scam

Freelotto.com is a strange website offering people the chance to big money without paying anything.

You can choose to pay a monthly subscription or to play for free, with a higher change of winning if you do pay, of course.

Either way, there is a lot of advertising and Marketing emails as they make money from their partner organisations.

They claim to have paid out millions and name some of the winners. People who have tried to determine if the winners actually exist have found it very difficult to find any evidence that they are real.

Some people on forums about lotteries say they have won prizes but the prizes are to be paid monthly in small chunks then some months they get nothing and have to complain.

To get a prize you have to make a claim which will be answered within ’90 days’. Sometimes they notify winners by email and others say they have to regularly check the website to see if they have won.

It’s all very strange.

Maybe some people pay nothing and win worthwhile prizes but it seems most people either win nothing or trivial sums, but then that is common for sweepstakes/raffles/lotteries or whatever you call what freelotto do.

Government lotteries pay better prizes and guarantee to pay out on a win. Don’t waste your time on questionable websites.

If you have any experiences with Free Lotto do let me know, by email.

January 11, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Mr. Ryan Rogers wants to start up a business venture with me – it can be in medical, real estate, finance, energy, oil and gas, start up businesses, expansion etc. It seems it can be almost anything, but then he is a scammer so the choice of business area doesn’t bother him. As a supposed rich businessman with money to spare, he should do better than having email on a Gmail account. No thanks

A strange email arrived with the title “New price update for Funko form Funko” and its from funko@funkopopmall. The message is full of the word Funko and claims to be from a professional Funko manufacturer. Is there such a thing as a Funko? The email reads like a typical scam mail and is badly written but it turns out Funko is a real thing – they are bobble head toys and there is a big market in fake Funkos. Whether the email is from a real company or a copycat doesn’t matter – it’s just time-wasting rubbish.

A message from Carolyn Tornatore tells me I have won an iPhone X but she doesn’t know my name and has a Hotmail account. Just a pathetic scammer.

Nuri Hah promises me I will make $7,000 per month on cryptocurrency trading and investment with her help. No. I don’t think so. I think she is just a sad criminal and her message is so obviously fake it will be surprising if even morons reply to it.

There are always lots of phishing messages from fraudsters claiming to be well-known courier companies. This latest one claims to be USPS – obviously hoping people will think it is UPS delivery. “A package containing confidential information was sent to you”. Then a login and password box. Courier companies do not know what it is the packages they deliver and only an idiot would write Confidential Information on the outside of a package. All fake.

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January 5, 2020

Stupidest Spam of the Week Amateur Scammer

The email claims to be from Maxine Snead which may be a real name but is more likely to be a random made up name.

Whoever the scammer is, they are pretty stupid as the message is full of very basic mistakes.

The message shows a list of dozens of people that the message has been sent to. Experienced scammers hide this list by using the “BCC” line rather than the “To” line when sending.
The message is about an account balance claimed to belong to me and it contains a figure which is supposedly the value of the balance. However the programming code used to add in a random number to represent the balance shows in the message rather than just the intended number.
There are two instances that are intended to show the same balance value but the code is different hence the values shown would be different.
The message says “Please get your money” – not exactly official bank language.
There is no attempt to make the message look professional and it starts with “Hi” rather than a formal greeting.

Ridiculous message from a scammer who doesn’t understand how to make the programming code insert values.

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January 4, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

An offer of unlimited accountancy services for one monthly fee. The message is from bluehundredslynk.top which is not an accountancy domain therefore the message should be deleted. If you want professional services of any kind – do your own research and never trust unsolicited emails.

“If you or someone you know is fighting cancer, it is urgent you watch this video now” is a message from a particularly heartless scammer. The video is supposed to show you how to kill the cancer cells without needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy. There is no such method, just a nasty selfish scammer.

The next scam email is about diabetes and claims the real cause of diabetes has been found and is nothing to do with eating carbohydrates or sugar or any other food. We must watch the video before it is taken down by Big Pharma. No, we mustn’t watch videos created by scammers. Diabetes is heavily researched and answers may be found one day. But not by scammers.

Michelle Worsley sent me a message confirming our meeting on Wednesday at 11:30. A professional looking email but I’ve never heard of a Michelle Worsley so I know it’s from a scammer. Plus, the sender’s email address is noreply @turonames.net and noreply addresses are not used where you actually want a reply. It’s most likely from a scammer, testing if the email address is valid as she can sell valid ones for a higher price than untested ones.

An email from Amazon says my order number #74880 requires more information due to a mismatch in my card / billing address. The email has been spoofed to look as if from amazon but it’s a fake. I don’t have any outstanding orders with Amazon and if I did, they would know my name whereas the scammer who sent this message does not.

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