Category: Scam email

March 28, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Do this trick at bedtime and wake-up with insane levels of energy. Just takes 45 seconds per day. Sounds ridiculous and it is.

At many holiday resorts and city centres you will find people selling fake designer goods. One such person sent a mass emailing – claiming to have thousands of expensive leather briefcases at very low prices. This scammer must have bought a scam email address list as a flood of the emails turned up at the radio station each to a different made-up email address that we’ve seen before. His email address is ratudjakalenoleda @aol.jp and that name doesn’t sound very Japanese. All fake of course.

Mr. Anthony Kananga (that’s the name of the bad guy in the James Bond film Live and Let Die) tells me I have won $850,000 in a recent LDR lottery and I just need to forward my name, address, phone number occupation etc. to him for confirmation. He doesn’t know my name so I cannot have won but then I didn’t enter the lottery in the first place – even assuming such a lottery exists. Pathetic.

An email claiming to be from Amazon says that further information is required and a statement of account is attached for me to download. However the link is to a web page not a document and the actual sender is a ridiculous address (kaosdkoqwko723tnxo9qwndgksjdh-74102 @n.urtgasdop.org ). All fake of course.

“Can you imagine putting on a weird sound and have your baby enjoy restful sleep in minutes without waking up once?” is the sales pitch from a dumb scammer. For some reason, scammers love using the word ‘weird’ in their scam product descriptions as if it magically confers believability on whatever their greed has led them to try selling. There is no such weird sound and it is understandable that parents can become desperate to find a way to get their baby to sleep, but hopefully not so desperate as to believe a word of such rubbish.

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March 21, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Major Dennis Hornbeck emails to tell me about his situation. He says “I am in the military unit here in Afghanistan, we have some amount of funds that we want to move out of the country. My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust. It is risk free and legal. Reply to this email”. Of course it’s completely risk free and legal – that’s why he’s sending out millions of messages to random unknown people asking for help. The Major is just a figment of a scammer’s mind – intent on stealing from you.

This scammer wants to bring science into her scam email by claiming that ‘quantum particles’ dictate the outcome of our decisions and we just have to use her technique to flip the quantum particles from destructive to success-getting. No. We make decisions and the effects of those decisions determine our future.

Lots of emails to multiple made up email addresses turned up over the last few days at the radio station. But each had a very similar message e.g. “I really wanted to say I am a beginner to blog and really savoured you’re website.” Badly spelled and reading as if either translated from another language or put together by a computer programme from a set of stock phrases. Just scammers trying to get a response which then tells them which email addresses have an actual person receiving them.

“This person deserves the Medal of Honor”. “This crazy nurse has discovered one of the biggest secrets of the mankind and preferred to share it instead of getting millions of dollars”. This fantasy rubbish is supposedly about free energy. There are so many scam messages that use this same template (secrets, crazy everyday person, warning over Big *** trying to stop it etc.) that it’s surprising anyone could possibly believe it anymore, but presumably some do or the scammers would invent a new template to use.

And now an instant cure for fungal infections that completely regenerates your skin and nails. Also costs very little and has been proved by over 35,000 people so far. There are plenty of home remedies and prescribed medicine for fungal infections of the skin and nails but they all take a long time to work as nails grow somewhat slowly. So, an instant fix is obviously just lies.

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March 16, 2020

The Penalty Charge Notice Scam

Sadly, too many of us accidentally fall foul of traffic laws in a minor way and then receive a surprise letter from the authorities stating the date and time of the offence and the fine to be paid.

Scammers love these as they can replicate the idea endlessly.

E.g. two emails arrived at the radio station

“Reminder for PCN Owner”

And “Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) Alert”

These claimed to be from the London Borough of Haringey and Dagenham Council and be penalty charges. One for “failing to stop after an accident” and the other for “parking on school keep-clear signs”

They had different supposed addresses where the offence took place and looked official and contained a different report of the incident.

Then the following day a third such notice arrived to a different email address and titled “Notification for PCN Proprietor” and a new incident “traffic signal offences”

Clearly someone has gone to a lot of trouble to create a system that churns out multiple versions of this scam letter and to make them look authentic.

Normally these sorts of scams use duplicate letters to different addresses and that is a give-away.

It is of course just a scam. One of the emails even has a spoofed government email address.

The link they want us to click goes to thomaswed.com Obviously nothing to do with Haringey and Dagenham council.

If you receive such a message and are not sure if it is real – contact the authority directly and look up the contact details yourself rather than trusting anything in the message.

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March 14, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

There are lots of scammers focussing on magic remedies for tinnitus as it is a common problem and one where medical science struggles to find a remedy. The scammers email is titled “Your holiday purchase” which suggests she is recycling old scam emails from a different subject. The email goes on about a woman complaining to the Police about a screaming child only to realise there was no child, just tinnitus. The illness tinnitus normally comes on slowly unless caused by very intense sound such as being at a rock concert. Whatever the cause, this scammer has no answers – just wants your money.

“Warning – a common green veggie is causing type 2 diabetes in millions”. Scammers love to be dramatic and try to scare people into reading whatever their scam of the day happens to be. It must be obvious to anyone that diabetes is a problem with your blood sugar level and therefore it cannot be caused by a green vegetable of any kind. Type II diabetes is caused by being overweight and eating a poor diet and is cured by reducing weight and eating a healthy diet including all green vegetables.

Eric has found an ancient enzyme that will turn you from chubby to effortlessly slim without lifting a finger. Just 30 seconds each morning to activate this special enzyme will shift your body into skinny mode without any side effects or health risks. No. This scammer has an active imagination but no answer to the obesity crisis and there is no magic ancient enzyme. To lose weight we have to eat less and exercise more – simple.

Marlon Mayor tells me he is the attorney to the late Brad who had deposited $29,500,000 in a bank in the Netherlands. Fortunately I have the same surname as Brad so I can claim to be a relative and claim the cash which I then need to split with Marlon. However, the email addresses me as Hello Good Day so he doesn’t know my surname and the email has gone to presumable millions of nameless people. Perhaps greed will get the better of some people’s common sense with this scam story this but I hope not.

Ryan Roger offers me business funding for any one of a long list that covers almost everything from startup to business growth and all sectors and promises the lowest interest rates. It’s a pathetically simple attempt to get business owners to respond. The email address of the supposed high powered financial consultant is kl57075612310 @gmail.com which is obviously a computer generated email address and no reputable financial consultant would use such an address as it hides their identity. Pathetic.

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March 9, 2020

Wrinkle Reducing Cream

The beauty industry is enormous and always desperate for some new breakthrough way to make people look younger or have firmer skin etc.

This desperation has led to a corresponding huge scam industry intended to take advantage of those desperate people willing to try almost anything to look younger.

A latest scam quotes new research showing that a class of collagen supplements can reduce wrinkles dramatically. It is true that there is research showing that collagen can temporarily affect cells in a dish but this is much more of a problem to reproduce in people.

For example, collagen supplements are broken down in the stomach so do not affect the skin.

However, the scammers don’t care whether something works, just whether they can catch people out and steal money from them.

The latest scam emails on this are from addresses such as support @programmers.bid which is supposed to be an auction website and nothing to do with supplements.

If you want to buy anti-wrinkle products – do so from a reputable supplier and never respond to unsolicited emails offering something magical. Scammers either have no product or have inferior and possibly dangerous products. Do not trust them and do not trust claims just because they sound scientific.

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March 7, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

With fears growing about the spread of Coronavirus, scammers are trying to get in with emails spreading fear and pretend conspiracies. “Military sources expose the truth about Coronavirus and the 1 thing you must do before it’s too late”. No. Just the usual lies from scumbags with no morals. Ignore any such messages.

You too can earn $594 per day just watching YouTube videos, using this loophole that not many people know about. Clearly this is rubbish. Why would anyone pay you lots of money just to watch YouTube?

Apparently, this simple molecule triggers 11% fat loss, at least that what David P. is claiming. You too can learn how to pack your cells with it. Surely anyone can tell immediately this is simply made up. Fat loss depends on calorie intake and exercise and no molecule can create such an exact weight loss of 11% in everyone.

Another fake BACS transaction report arrived. Looks professional, has contact phone numbers and lots of reference numbers etc. to make it look genuine and even a long explanation about BACS and terms and conditions. We don’t use BACS payments so it obviously fake.

Some scammers like to get straight to the point and others such as this latest one try to create a mystery and get you to click a link without actually telling you anything. “60 million Americans suffer from this. Do You?”. “This health killer may already be taking root inside you”. “It will only get worse and worse until it’s too late”. Lazy scammer cannot even be bothered thinking up a name for this so called problem. All lies of course.

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