A David Shultz tells us he has read our company’s pitch and is impressed and it suits his investment trajectory. He wants to invest between $5 million and $200 million to ‘ignite our business venture’. Obviously a ridiculous idea for a community radio station and he is an obvious scammer. Pity the money isn’t real or we could take it and retire to the Bahamas.

So many criminals have tried to take advantage of the pandemic with fake Covid tests, fake vaccine shots, fines for breaking Covid rules etc. Some have targeted government loans and these scams are still circulating. This latest one says ‘Get Your Recovery Loan Today’, offering instant decisions, terms over 6 years and limited payback. But it’s all fake. There are government loans of course but tight rules determine who is eligible and the money has to be paid back so it isn’t money for nothing

The stream of fake emails warning that various of our email addresses are blocked, continues. This latest one is particularly stupid as it is addressed to a fake address at the radio station but the opening line is ‘Dear jamesparknoseus000 @bestinlines.biz’ which is nothing to do with the radio station.  The moron scammer doesn’t even know how to substitute the email address they are trying to send to into the message template.

Latest scam messages are about supposedly secure documents having been sent to the recipient using OneDrive. This might be possible except that the sender is not Microsoft or OneDrive but webregbanko.org which is neither, so it’s fake. They want me to download the attachment. No chance of that happening.

An email claims to be from Home Depot and tells me I am customer number 176110931225 and I have a Home Depot reward waiting for me. Nope – never shopped at Home Depot in my life and the email is from eaatge998te.com which is not Home Depot. Just a phishing scam.

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An email from Allen Yan arrives from a Korean email address but he claims to be working in a Chinese company in Fuijan, China. So, he must be a very confused person i.e. a scammer at a Chinese company would never use a Korean email address.  The message asks us to quote best prices for his order and I should open the attached invoice to see the items. This scammer seems as dumb as dog muck as wants a quote against an order but the attachment is labelled as an invoice. However, the attached file is actually a web page (invoice.html) so no-one with any sense would open it. 

The EU Business Register scam is back in abundance as large numbers of these scam messages are sent out. It’s a simple scam – offering you the chance to update your business entry in the EU business register free of charge. But, the scam is in the small print which says that by returning the form with your details you are agreeing to a 3 year contract at 995 Euros per year and thereafter to automatic renewals of the contract at the same price. It is quite evil and will not stand up in court, but they threaten people who don’t pay and presumably some give in.

Another email message about an email account that was made up by scammers. They send these stupid messages claiming the mailbox is full and we are supposed  to click to update the account. But the email address they are sending to is fake so it’s not a real problem. Simply yet more phishing emails.

At the radio station, we get a lot of the fake invoice scam emails. Typically these claim we owe some hundreds of dollars and need to open the attachment for details or to click the link to see the invoice. This latest one from ‘Tabitha’ claims we owe $69,760 – certainly the highest amount claimed by a scammer this year. Perhaps she is greedy or stupid or believes that higher amounts are more likely to be paid. Whatever her reason she wont get anything from us.

Louise Stewart keeps emailing to say we owe various amounts – usually about $200 even though her business address on the email is in Sussex. She wants us to open the attached ‘invoice’ which no doubt is loaded with malware. Pathetic scammer.

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Another fake message arrives claiming an email box is full up and needs to be upgraded. These are simple phishing scams – if you click the link to upgrade it takes you to a fake webpage designed to look like a genuine upgrade page but it takes your email address and password and forwards them to the scammer. The message claims to be from Postmaster but is from purpleparrot.com.cn and strangely complains that the mailbox is just under 2GB but has to be upgraded to 500GB which is an unrealistically big jump but then most scammers are too dumb to understand what it means. A simple phishing scam.

An email from Jonathon tells us thank you for placing an order with them, although there’s no company name to identify who “them” might be. Plus, the email is from a Gmail address not a business email address. This one doesn’t contain a link to click as do almost all scam messages, but it has a telephone number in America that you should call if you have questions about the order (which you haven’t placed). The scammers phone number in this case is +1 833 815-3366  I wont be calling it.

Another approach by scammers is to send messages saying that there are documents waiting for me on the Radio station printer, that 2 people have sent these documents for me and I just need to login in to access them. All lies of course.

Yet another reminder to pay an overdue invoice arrives. It has an attached document so presumably that is full of malware.  This one is from [email protected]  lastwinter.net which is obviously a scammer’s email address.  Every business receives large numbers of these simple phishing messages so hopefully everyone is used to watching out for them by now. Typical scammer rubbish of course.

There are endless scams based on diabetes cures. Diabetes type II is the scourge of Western society and huge amounts of money are spent trying to treat the disease. Scammers recognise this and that there is no medical cure – only lifestyle changes that many find too difficult. This latest magic remedy is supposedly a simple ingredient made from common beans and one dose in your morning coffee reverses the diabetes domino effect and ‘slashes’ your blood sugar permanently.  There is no such ingredient and no such ‘slashing’ effect, just a criminal trying to con people.

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