Category: Scam email

August 8, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Paul (who cannot afford a surname) says he is providing loans and funds to any companies with profitable business projects in any sphere at 3% interest and the minimum application is $1 million. Pathetic lies of course – just a criminal after people’s personal information to sell.

Mrs Pamela Griffin Wells claims she is a cancer patient and has no husband or family left so has decided to will her fortune of $8.5 million to me, despite never having met me and not even knowing my name. The message is to ‘My Beloved’ and is in English then repeated in Spanish. Maybe she is incredibly generous or maybe she’s just a lying scheming fraudster. Yup – that’s rather more likely. I wont be replying to Pamela.

“Incredible New Weight Loss Soups” is a laughable title. Most people on diets already know the benefit of soup in making you feel full up with fewer calories, so this scammer has her work cut out. The message goes on about new Harvard research that show blah blah blah. But there’s nothing new in it – soups can be part of any calorie controlled diet. There’s no need to click any links to find that out. Tough luck criminal.

A flood of emails from various obviously fake email addresses, with the title ‘Meet New People’. Then a picture of an attractive young woman and a picture background with the message of the email. Scammers use this picture technique to try to stop spam filters recognising the messages as scams. It claims to be a new means of online dating but is just fake and the link they want you to click goes to bitlomes.shop which is registered in Moscow and is a known scam address.

“We are mold maker and molidng company from Shenzhen City, China. Main product filed is Home Appliance, Automtoive, and other industry products.” Is a typical email claiming to be from a Chinese company looking for business. Sounds vaguely plausible. However, it’s just a phishing scam after your contact details and so on. The lack of a company name or company contact details demonstrates it’s a simple scam message. The spelling and grammatical errors show it’s a from a scammer trying to avoid contact from anyone with common sense and to only get replies from the most gullible. If the message was genuine then either it would be written by someone who can spell correctly in English or can use a spell checker – these errors are deliberate and only scammers do that. Never reply to such messages – it just leads to your details going onto ‘suckers’ lists.

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August 1, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

There’s always lots of spam emails to the radio station claiming to be from some company or other interested in our products and wanting details on our products. E.g. “We have inquiry about your product, could you send your latest catalogue with price list. Please note our payment terms are 30% advance payment.” The message is from a Yahoo address not a business address so is obviously fake and of course the radio station doesn’t sell products. The scammer just wants to confirm our email address is active and that the recipient is stupid enough to reply to such an obviously fake message.

Edward Idris sent me a message – “I have been expecting your responds regarding my previous mail, please acknowledge if your email is still valid”. He hasn’t sent any previous messages and is just trying to find out which email addresses are active as they sell for a higher price to criminals. It is obviously a fake message as his sending email address is actually suniewendy22 which is not Edward Idris and he supplies a return email address different from the sender address and that is typical scammer behaviour.

“Receive Free Samples” is a nice thought but it’s just a phishing message. It continues about this being your last chance to get these free samples and you just have to click to start receiving. But, the email is from info @alison1.xyz which is obviously not a business address or a Marketing company – just a scammer. No thanks.

Peter Howard claims he has sent messages about the $750,000 in the last testament of his client (who doesn’t seem to have a name) and I am his last surviving relative. Strange that he doesn’t know my name but knows I am related to some mystery person. I will not be participating in his verification process which will be designed to get as much personal information from me as possible to sell to other criminals for identity theft purposes.

“A historian discovered by a stroke of luck an ancient book that unveils something dangerous for all of us. It’s a sinister pact between The White House and the Vatican”. No – the only danger is criminals such as the sender of that message. Laughable.

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July 27, 2020

The Google Photos Scam

This is a simple phishing scam.

The title of the email is “Your photo takes first place”.

It has a Google photos logo and specifies that you have 2 albums and 9 photos on Google Photos.

Then it offers a further 1GB of space on Google Photos free of charge.

Sounds good but it’s a scam of course.

If you click the link then it asks you to confirm your login and password first, but that’s on a fake login page and it sends your details to the criminal behind this scam.

It should be obvious that this is a scam message from the fact that the email is sent from an address that cannot be Google, such as ddgre5f2avf @dconneltw.com

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July 23, 2020

Martin Lewis Fake Adverts

Martin Lewis is a well known journalist and TV presenter best known as the Money Saving Expert.

(https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/)

Money Saving Expert is the UK’s biggest consumer site, and it now has over 16 million monthly users.

Scammers know how popular and trusted he is and frequently use the name Martin Lewis on fake adverts, text messages, scams of all sorts.

Martin fights back with court cases where needed but the scammers typically flood the Internet with their lies then disappear, change names, companies, brands etc. and then rea—appear.

He’s not the only celebrity whose name is misused like this but his name is one of the most misused.

Martin Lewis is very clear that he NEVER makes adverts therefore any ads you see carrying his name as fake.

The most common such fake adverts bearing Martin Lewis’ name are

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency mining
Binary Trading
Investments
Wealth Creation

e.g. Martin Lewis Invests £500,000 in New Wealth Creation Scheme For All

You should Trust Martin’s website, TV programmes, newspaper articles etc. but NEVER trust an advert with his name on it as it is guaranteed to be fake.

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July 4, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

‘Sophia Ellis’ wants me to believe that she is offering her expertise in email address verification, but the message doesn’t contain a company name and the email sender’s address is health.maketomopcom which does sound like a lazy scammer couldn’t even be bothered getting a decent sounding email address to send these scam messages from. No thanks.

As we get into summer, more air conditioning scam messages start to appear. This latest one claims “this personal air cooler can cool down any part of your home in no time”. It works from a USB lead so must be very small and have all of the air conditioning power of an asthmatic mouse attempting to blow the heat away. Air coolers normally work by blowing air over water which does cool the air but they only work in small enclosed places and cannot compete with any kind of real air conditioning.

Sam is trying to sell animation software called IllusionMage. Normal sales emails are sometimes honest but still effective and sometimes give false impressions and sometimes are just lies. This one is a con as it claims you can make the same quality animation as Pixar and Disney, but at home. Not true. It says the offer is only open for three days but these emails keep coming so that’s also a lie. If you want to buy anything online find a reputable seller and do your research and never trust unsolicited emails.

Some scams offer free products and this latest one using Donald Trump’s name claims to give away Donald Trump Keep America Great hats. Maybe they could give away promotional items to small groups for conventions etc. or maybe give away really cheap paper stuff at times, but the message claims the hats sell for $39.99 and they give them away to everyone who asks. Not true. Just a phishing scam to get your private information.

“Ancient invention generates energy on demand”. Sounds useful. Then it claims a crazy professor makes energy from the surface of the earth and everyone can, The video you have to click to see how its done will only be on the Internet for a day longer because big industry is trying to shut it down. All lies of course. There are many ways to generate electricity but they are well known and available already.

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June 29, 2020

Grandpa and Grandma Rapid Weight Loss

Scammers like to pick unusual people or exotic places from which suddenly emerges a magical secret that can give rapid weight loss or increased brain capacity or a diabetes cure or banish cellulite or even a cure for Cancer etc.

This latest one is about how Grandpa Dan and Grandma Sylvia were flying home when Dan had a heart attack and the plane had to land in Germany where they were taught a unique 2 minute ritual that magically melts away belly fat.

So much so that Dan and Sylvia between them have lost 68 pounds of unwanted weight.

You just have to click the link to see the ‘true’ video of their experience and learn the 2 minute secret.

Clearly, if this was true, there wouldn’t be so any people in Germany trying to diet.

Recently we’ve seen similar scam emails proclaiming unknown magical remedies from African tribes, the \Amish people, super triathletes, US Lifeguards, ancient civilisations and more. It is all ridiculous.

Some scammers are creative but the story is always the same