Category: Scam email

July 16, 2018

The Crypto Trader Scam

British Government SHAKEN By Discovery of NEW Underground Banking System.

New Law Passed Acknowledging Legitimacy of Underground Banking.

One man put just £250 in this secret new bank account… And watched it grow to more than £886,000.

These are the attention grabbing headlines for a new series of adverts for Crypto Trader.

Following the headlines are a set of testimonials such as

“everyone with £300 can double or triple it in a matter of hours, all it takes is a computer and a few clicks.”

“Experts agree that simply by transferring a small part of your money to these 100% free, safe, secure and completely private accounts you will at least earn more than 50 times what a typical savings account, stock or anything else will pay you.”

The messages are all about making huge amounts of money for no risk.

There is one explanation of how it makes money

“The Crypto Trader software has been created using the most advanced programming the trading world has ever seen. The software is ahead of the markets by 0.01 seconds. And if you know anything about trading, you know this is a huge deal. This “time leap” makes the software the most consistent trading app on the planet.”

So, this little operation has better software than the multi billion dollar giants of the stock markets. Supposedly.

The whole thing is a scam of course.

You add your money to an account but you have to sign up with one of Cryto Trader’s brokers first and that’s where they actually make money.

After that you’re on your own – they don’t care as they’ve got your money.

Get rich quick schemes are always Fraud.

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July 15, 2018

Stupidest Scam of The week – Drought

The title of the message is “NASA says once in 1,000 years disaster looms over America”

“It’s the same calamity that wiped out one of the world’s biggest civilisations almost 1,000 years ago”

“In fact, some of America’s richest like Oprah and Ellen are already spending hundreds of thousands of dollars preparing for this …”

Sounds terrible – what can it be?

Alien Invasion?

A Huge Meteor Impact?

Volcanic Eruption Bigger Than Anything Before?

No – it’s about a drought.

It is true that NASA did issue a warning about a disaster – it was forecasting climate change back in 2015 and predicted the drought in California could continue for years more creating the worst such drought in 1,000 years. But it is only a prediction with a very large margin of error attached.

How to avoid the drought – go live outside of California.

Then strangely the message promises you can protect your family against this tragedy for only a few bucks.

Buying whatever the scammer is offering is not going to be an answer. The scammer cannot make rain any more than anyone else can.

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July 14, 2018

Those Terrible Time-Wasters

An email claiming to be from Wells Fargo bank warning me that someone in Russia has made multiple attempts to login to my account and they have had to restrict my account accordingly. To gain access again I just need to complete their verification form and if I don’t then the account will be blocked. Just a typical phishing scam and the message is from help68yf65.com which is obviously not Wells Fargo bank.

Frank Anthony from Cape Town says he will be visiting my country in one or two weeks time and wants me to help him to invest $47 million in property. Of course – no problem. And he states at the end of the email “My fund is legal and genuine” so I can rest assured that this isn’t a scam because he has told me his fund is genuine. His email address is at Yandex which generally means it’s a Russian scammer.

An email from vee-so.date which should be a dating site but the email is a sales pitch “Build 30 pounds of muscle in 30 days” That’s a physical impossibility so no thanks Mr. Scammer.

Peter Bill wants to invest in my country and I get 35% of the funds. Sounds a good deal, but he doesn’t know my name or even which country I’m in and his email address is Cuba. OOPS.

A phishing email claiming to be Santander Bank, but is from act-one.uk. The email says I should review my transaction history to ensure no unauthorised transactions have taken place. The link provided for review looks like Santander.co.uk but is to esvin.net which is not Santander Bank. The scammer is clearly planning to make unauthorised transactions on my account as soon as I follow her link and login. But that’s not going to happen.

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July 8, 2018

Stupidest Scam of The Week – Business Deal

Elias Dwele of Mozambique wants to offer a business deal.

He got my contact from a business directory apparently (nope – I’m not in those).

He says he is the PA of a major opposition leader in Mozambique – a South Eastern African Region country (that’s in case I’ve never heard of Mozambique).

He is presently in hiding (but has good Internet access of course) due to being at “logger head” with the ruling party over demands for better integration of its supporters into the Police and Military as precondition for peace.

This background explanation is just weird.

The message continues about a business cooperation requiring complete trust and confidentiality.

Yup – it’s easy to completely trust someone I’ve never met or even heard of, who lives thousands of miles away in hiding. No problem.

Unbelievable that anyone in their right mind would reply to this rubbish.

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July 7, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

“Edward” whose email address is “Brad.John” seems to have a personality problem, wants me to share in $21 million stuck in a deposit account. Nope – whatever your name is you can keep the fictitious money.

Mina says she lives in my town and although I don’t know her, is finding it hard to keep her feelings for me secret. Just a con to get me to click a link.

An offer to get me into the American Green Card Immigrant Visa Program. I just have to click and register my details. A simple phishing scam seeking your personal information. https://fightback.ninja/the-green-card-lottery-scam/

Next, an email designed to appeal to Christians.

“Imagine if your last 10 years on earth were a reflection of how you’ll live in heaven.”

“What if the average of your living years is an indication of how you’ll live in the afterlife.”

This moron is flogging a fat loss ‘secret’ but seems to believe that heaven is similar to Earth and that he can use people’s beliefs to con them.

Diabetes News reveals the shocking reason why you have Diabetes and how to even cure it…

“This is awful – I don’t know why the Diabetes industry is covering this up”.

This is just typical scammer language peddling rubbish and even claiming that diabetes is contagious.

July 1, 2018

Stupidest Scam of The week – Cure All Viruses

An email from backhairagain.faith which shows either the sender has a sense of humour or they are scammers.

Then comes a truly ridiculous opening paragraph.

“My friend Kevin and I were talking about a project he was working on that is helping people cure diseases like never before”.

Sounds like just the typical conversation we all have – with a friend who cures diseases no-one else can.

Then, strangely, a lot of junk about how viruses invade your cells and make them replicate the virus and so the virus spreads. Elements of it are true but it is written in an overly dramatic manner, trying to impress people.

Then comes the magic answer that ‘Kevin’, presumably working in his garage has found, that is beyond everyone else. Something that stops all viruses attacking your cells. Magic. A cure for all viruses.

Nope – just a cheap scam with a ridiculous storyline.

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June 30, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Email claims access to a controversial video that shows how Russian traders turn $10 into $100,000 and that 93% of newbies using this method make an average of 769% return within 3 weeks. Entirely ridiculous of course. Scammers think including random impressive statistics make their rubbish believable but it has the opposite effect on anyone with a brain.

The Council Tax Department of some unknown council complains they have several times tried to contact me to let me know I have a tax refund of 372.41 pounds waiting. The email is from woodhosting.com which is not anybody’s council and I am addressed as ’Hey’ in the email – not my name.

Hooray – a baldness cure has arrived. Apparently Andrew Jackson was on ABC TV last night and he sprayed his bald head and his hair started to grow literally before the judges eyes. Yeah – and by the end of the show his hair was 12 foot long and he had to be admitted to hospital to have it stopped. Real hair grows at about 1 cm per month so you cannot exactly watch it growing by the second.

Mariam Abdul has $25.3 million in Syria (from her dead father) and wants me to invest it for her in anything I wish. I imagine this dumb message had gone out to tens or hundreds of millions of people and sadly some will be so desperate they will reply and get caught up in a scam.

Mothers are burning off flab. “Women who want to eat pizza and tortilla chips are in luck, this method changes your body no matter what you do or eat”. It’s obvious that what you eat and how much exercise you get affects your weight but the scammers want us to believe that’s not the case. Only in fantasy land.

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June 24, 2018

Stupidest Scam of The week – Static Electricity

The email shows in huge letters

CBS News: Electricity Power Generation

Simply by harvesting electricity from the atmosphere

It explains: “Our Founding Fathers knew that free Energy means Free People”.

Microsoft announces the official release of their most anticipated product ever.

Plug in your entire home without using any actual electricity.

And so it continues.

It’s a standard scam – offer something for nothing which in this case is free electricity.

Include the name Microsoft as everyone has heard of the brains at Microsoft and include the name CBS as everyone knows TV news.

It is true there is plenty of electricity in the atmosphere as thunderstorms and lightning will testify.

But you cannot power your home on that any more than the fictitious Dr. Frankenstein can re-animate a dead human body with a lightning bolt.

Certainly Microsoft have nothing to do with these scams and have never announced the creation of such products.

I assume this scam works because so many people are desperate to reduce their home electricity bills. But it’s totally fake.

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June 23, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

The email says “Claim your gift card online or any one of our shops”. It apparently offers a free Argos gift voucher and to get it, you just have to respond with whether Argos began in 1972 or 1792. It’s just a scam of course as it’s not from Argos but from empressamentors.com

This email promises me a Dyson Supersonic hairdryer if I just test one and write a short review of it. Nope – an obvious scam. Dyson products sell like crazy and the quality is excellent – they don’t need to give away £300 hairdryers.

Mr. Sun Longde who is Vice-President of PetroChina wants to make a business investment with me Shame that someone so important can only afford a free yahoo email address and he doesn’t even know my name but wants to invest with me. Very believable. NOT.

The U.S. government has $2,000,000 for me as compensation due to lost business via Internet. Nope. The scammers just want to know my phone number, address etc. and of course my name as they don’t even know that.

Warning! Apparently there are 3 foods you must NEVER eat. They may be toxic to your body and could even be killing you. Worse. They are being marketed as Super-Foods by the Big Food corporations. This scammer obviously has a flair for the dramatic. Too much fat and carbohydrate may kill you in the long-term but the products in the average American home refrigerator probably won’t.

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June 17, 2018

Stupidest Scam of The week – Investment Offer

An email arrived claiming to be from Sahara Petrochems Ltd but the email address is dtbafrica so is clearly fake.

It says “I represent business group in Middle East looking for projects to fund; we seek any business that will guarantee a safe and secure return on investments. Alternative powers, movies, start-up companies etc. “.

It carries on like this. It reads as if written by someone with a reasonable grasp of English, unlike many such scam emails, but this one is a little childlike.

Finally, it is signed off by Sir Abraham Oded and gives two email addresses for replying to him – one is an Outlook address and the other is a Groupmail address.

Both are personal addresses, of course, rather than business.

Obviously no one in their right mind would send out millions of emails to random people if actually looking for projects to invest in. Whereas, scammers do this all of the time.

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