Category: Scam email

November 12, 2018

The Foreign Lottery Insurance Scam

This is a variant on the usual foreign lottery winnings scam.

In this set of messages, you are reported to have won 750,000 Euros on the STAATS AWARD International Program as your email address has been chosen as a winner.

There’s lots of meaningless details about the award, reference numbers etc. then it asks for your details.

This is the typical information that is highly saleable to other scammers: – full name, telephone number, country, age, occupation etc.

The variant in this message is that it goes on to explain that unless you are a Dutch resident, you will need to pay a winnings insurance and notarization fee before collecting your winnings.

So, the scammer wants your personal details to sell plus a commission payment for the non-existent winnings.

If you didn’t enter the lottery then you cannot possibly have won it and any legal Lottery does not charge people to collect their winnings.

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November 11, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – confused scammer

An email arrived from a confused scammer.

It claims to be from SUPPORT and the email address is palsoft @technetium.be

So that should be a computer support scam of some kind.

However the title is ‘I started last Sunday and I’m already down 2 sizes’ which seems to be a weight reduction scam.

Then it turns into a notification message warning that “You have 6 notifications”

It has a date at the bottom which is very rare on such scam messages as scammers normally re-use the message texts repeatedly and dates can be a give-away. The date is a Tuesday so if the person started a diet and dropped 2 dress sizes in 2 days – that’s even faster than absolute starvation.

This scammer is clearly very confused or as dumb as a turnip.

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November 10, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

“Fat Melting Elixir”. Drop 37 pounds in 20 days. This is all possible with a soup detox so the email claims. The soup trains your hormones to burn more fat as you get older while eating as much as you want. Sad pathetic lies from a sad pathetic scammer.

An Act Now alert from Nat West. My account has been suspended as it may have been accessed from a previously unrecognised location. I don’t have a Nat West account so it doesn’t bother me.

A confidential fax sent to my email address. Nope – just a fraudster trying to get me to open an attached file. No thanks.

Greg Lawrence says he is an SEO consultant i.e. expert in getting websites to the top of Google searches. He lists a whole set of problems with my website and wants to help me to get to the top of those searches. But his list includes:-

Low online presence for many keywords. True but irrelevant. It’s not worth concentrating on every possible keyword.
Stumpy image optimisation – Don’t know what a stumpy image is and couldn’t care less.
Deprived website – does that mean my website had a deprived upbringing? Or is it a misspelling maybe?
Inappropriate social media campaign – this moron is desperate to put anything down as a problem but simply stringing words together to make meaningless sentences won’t convince anyone with a more brain cells than an amoeba.

The sender is a loser who thinks he can make money from people who know even less than he does.

Good day says Mauro, who thinks my resume is very attractive and has a vacant position in his company that is ideal for me. Apparently, it can be part-time or full-time and pays up to $7,000 per month. There is no company, and no jobs, just a chancer trying to steal from people genuinely looking for job opportunities.

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November 4, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Diabetes Cure

“The Real Cause for Diabetes Found” is the title of the email from Mabel.

But, the causes of Diabetes are well known.

Diabetes Type I is genetic and there is currently no cure available. Diabetes type II is failure in the production of insulin to manage sugar levels in the blood, tends to get worse with age and is exacerbated by obesity and poor diet. The cure for type II diabetes is exercise, better diet and weight loss.

But this moron scammer offers a drink whereby all types of diabetes are cured in 2 days.

No chance of that being real. This is just her imagination and greed for others people’s money.

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November 3, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

An email from Western Union tells me they have a money transfer waiting for me and I just need to tell them my full name, contact address, telephone number, country, passport number etc. to receive that money. This is a standard phishing scam – just after my personal details which can be sold to other scammers. The message is from Mr. Goodluck James. The only good luck is for the scammers if anyone replies.

Travis Stork claims that his wife lost over 50 pounds and she credits it to one fat flushing food exactly one hour before bed. You can lose 14 pounds in 10 days just by adding this to your diet – one hour before bedtime. No. The only thing you would accomplish is furnishing this scammer with your money. Magic diets with no effort NEVER work, especially ones where you can apparently eat anything else you want.

Another message from Yahoo saying my account will be closed if I do not verify my account immediately. Just the usual phishing message – in this case from lateliertana @yahoo.fr which is a Yahoo France personal email address, not from Yahoo itself.

Steve warns that we should never exercise more than 90 minutes per week. That would make life difficult for marathon runners, tennis players and a lot more people but then Steve is presumably a moron for sending out such drivel.

An email that shows lots of other people’s email addresses that have also received the message and only contains a link but no attempt to describe what it is for. The email is from stitchedup22 so at least this scammer has a sense of humour.

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October 29, 2018

Bitcoin Victory Scam

Bitcoin Victory is being marketed as an exclusive offer which will make you a millionaire virtually overnight.

You will see the adverts and links to websites highlighting Bitcoin Victory.

It’s a clever scam based on the sales pitch of making money for no effort with a computer doing the work for you.

To make it more attractive it is marketed as an exclusive club to which only the privileged few will have access (that includes you of course).

The ads and websites typically use fake logos from reputable businesses such as Bloomberg or top banks to give the impression of authenticity.

The scammers behind Bitcoin Victory claim it is an automated trading system that deals in Bitcoins and once you have signed up it will trade your bitcoins and make you lots of money for no effort on your part.

This is clearly untrue as all currency trading is high risk and there is no such thing as a sure way to win and no computer system in the world can predict what will happen on the markets.

They claim it has been in testing and is now open to just a few discerning members of the public as long as they get in fast.

Scams often add false restrictions – you must act now; closing shortly; almost full up etc.

Your ‘investment’ is a minimum of $250 but don’t expect to make millions or ever get your money back if you try it.

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October 28, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Sugar Parasites

The title is “Are blood sugar parasites damaging your blood sugar”.

There is so much wrong with that sentence.

You eat food and your body converts the carbohydrates and other components into blood sugar which is used in your muscles as energy.

The concept of “blood sugar parasites” makes no sense. Parasites are living organisms – tiny creatures that infect your body – nothing to do with blood sugar.

“parasites damaging your blood sugar”. This makes no sense.

You cannot damage blood sugar. Your body constantly makes blood sugar from your food.

The email is actually about a cure for diabetes, but the scammer got carried away with poetic notions that are just complete rubbish.

The magic cure for diabetes in this case is supposedly a cooking oil. That is nothing to do with how your body manages its blood sugar level.

(The picture is of a dust mite – not the non-existent blood sugar parasites).

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October 27, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

The message says “Invoice Attached – FINAL NOTICE”. It’s just the usual virus laden attachment from a scammer. No thanks.

Ms Cristy Walton tells me “I have a donation of $5 Billion for you. Contact me for details”. Is there anyone dumb enough on this entire planet to believe someone they don’t know who doesn’t even know their name is going to give them $5 Billion? I hope not.

Email title is “Over 12K All New Shed Building Guides”. You must be joking – 12,000 guides about sheds. Who in their right mind would want that? Nobody. This scammer won’t get much response to that rubbish.

We Raise Any Finance promise instant finance for any business or project. They guarantee to be the lowest price. Yup – scammers can offer any price they want as there is no finance to give. There is no matching website, no business of that name – all fake.

Many scammers offer methods to improve your eyesight and some have stories about American Indians with super power eyesight. This scammer has moved on to Aboriginals with super sight (4 times better than anyone else) and the magic ingredient can give anyone 20/20 vision. It’s just the same old stupid scam under a different guise.

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October 22, 2018

Scalar Energy Healing

Tom Paladino claims to be able to heal you of almost anything including Ebola, Cancer, Herpes, Arthritis, Malaria and a lot more. All he needs is a photograph of your ailment and $175 a month. Good fakery is an expensive business.

What is Scalar Energy?

Paladino says “Scalar Energy is a double helix that originates from the sun and the stars of the universe. Scalar Energy is also known as prana, chi, radiant energy, zero point energy, qi, organ, eloptic energy. “

That list of energies is a mix of fakery, science fiction ideas and ancient Eastern arts.

“Scalar Energy” is a concept in Physics but it cannot be applied to random invented energies or to supposedly explain Chi etc.

Paladino may have lost the plot e.g. this comment “In heaven there is only Scalar Energy. There is no electricity in heaven.” Or he may be an expert scammer. After all he’s found a way to get money from a lot of people for doing what appears to be nothing.

Paladino claims to have treated more than 500,000 people and asks for a testimonial from each.

He does have a lot of positive testimonials, which may be genuine, but the placebo effect means that about a third of his ‘customers’ should believe his treatment works but he only has hundreds of testimonials not the vast number you would expect.

Whatever his game is, the numbers who believe his treatment works is pitifully low.

Don’t waste your time and money on Tom Paladino.

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October 14, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Cancer Cure

Doctors Health Press announce “Cancer destroyed by eating this one food”.

Then lots of rubbish about the supposed cancer fighting nutrient and pseudo-scientific babble about phyto nutrients.

Apparently new research has shown how this nutrient can selectively target and attack cancer cells and at the same time leave healthy cells alone.

No. There are over 200 types of cancers and they are very different diseases, responding to different medicines and regimes.

But in case a cure for cancer is not enough – this scammer also offers a fruit that fights Alzheimer’s disease, how to lower your blood pressure without drugs and cholesterol fighters plus lots more.

Sadly it is the usual scammer rubbish. They either sell expensive but useless supplements or you pay your money and they give you nothing.

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