Category: Scam email

October 1, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

“Alert: Delivery blocked for …” is the latest scam email trying to get our login and password for one of the email accounts. The email claims to be from [email protected] the radio station which is a lie of course. Simple rubbish from evil scammers.

Anuj Talan offers me the opportunity to have an APP that guarantees to increase my sales as his company is expert in APP development. However his email address is a personal Outlook address so there is no company – just one person who may or may not actually be an APP developer. Only a moron would consider paying someone who sends out mass spam messages.

I’ve never heard of Acquirz but their email claims they have lots of information about me and just want to make sure I know they are processing that according to the law. I can find out more about them by clicking the various links in the message or I can click to unsubscribe. There are lots of these such emails nowadays and 99.999% are scams. Just delete such messages and don’t be tempted to ask them what information they have on you.

A message from outwork.co but claims to be from MetroBank warning me that my security validation has expired and I need to revalidate it immediately. Nope. Don’t have a MetroBank account so wont be doing that.

The message says it’s my turn to win 2 x £250 Morrisons Vouchers as I am in a draw with just 2 others to win them. The other 2 people are Matt Singer and Ruby Whitman. Morrisons supermarket do not give away vouchers by email and they do not have £250 vouchers. The message is from customerservice.uk which is a generic email address which anyone can buy an email address for. It is used by some legal companies but mostly by scammers. A legal draw would not show you the names of the other competitors as that is against the law. All fake of course.

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September 25, 2022

Stupidest Scam of the Week Exotic Loophole

There will always be people trying desperately to lose weight.

Maybe for health reasons or to look better or for employment.

It doesn’t matter – there will also always be scammers offering magical ways to lose weight with no effort – some magic unknown fruit or a Himalayan mineral or an ancient Japanese island remedy or some simple ‘hack’ to cure obesity.

All rubbish of course – to lose weight you exercise more and eat fewer calories than your body consumes.

This latest scam offers the discovery of the root cause of arm, butt and thigh fat.

Plus a plant that is 556% more powerful than exercise and 611% more powerful than dieting.

You should be able to see immediately that anyone quoting statistics like those is obviously a lying cheating scumbag scammer.

If the magic plant dissolves fat overnight, where does all that fat go?

Perhaps you don’t want to know.

The clincher that proves it’s entirely fake is the appeal to conspiracy theory. “The $80 billion dollar industry does not want you to see this video so watch now before it’s too late”.

The word ‘Loophole’ which is in the email subject isn’t mentioned so probably the scammer just thought she should include it as it sounds good.

Pathetic lies.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.

September 24, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

A “Mr Anthony” who is a BMW delivery agent at “the United Embassy from the government of USA in the White house Washington DC” tells me that I have won a BMW X6 car and a cheque for $8.5 million. These are ready to be shipped to me as soon as I return the email with my contact details and ID information. The sender makes no effort to make the email look genuine or fake his sender’s email address which is a personal Gmail account. Quite pathetic to think that anyone could reply to such an obvious scam.

Lots of scammers uses Bill Gate’s name as he is famous and his foundation does a lot of good in the world. This latest one claims to be from the “Bill and Gates” Foundation and my email address has been randomly selected to receive $1.5 million. I just have to return my contact and personal details to the sender. The real foundation is named “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” and they certainly do not give away millions of dollars to random strangers for no reason. They use their money to fight poverty and eradicate disease.

More emails arrive at the radio station claiming an email address mailbox is full and needs to be sorted out as it is now disabled. However that email address is just a forwarder – meaning there is no mailbox so it cannot be full up. I wont be clicking on the Fix It link.

A strange email claims that a controversial liquid will end all pain in 54 seconds. But, it is banned in America due to the drug companies wanting to make more money. Even mad conspiracy theorists must have a limit of the ridiculous stories they are willing to believe, based on no evidence. 54 seconds is a remarkably precise figure which means it’s a lie but then the only substance I can think of that ends pain that fast is cyanide. All rubbish from scammers after your money.

Almost everyone in the developed countries gave up using faxes many years ago. But scammers still to scam people over supposed faxes. This latest one says there is a fax waiting for me that is a new contract document (but its name is “invoice”) and I must download it immediately. No thanks. I can do without scam documents.

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September 10, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

An email from Martin says my transaction of 54.9 Bitcoins is completed and is in my account. That would be worth nearly one million dollars, but it isn’t true of course. The scammer wants me to open my account at Bitciti using the login and password he provides. No-one gives away millions to people they don’t know. This is a simple phishing scam – trying to get my personal information for future scams or to sell to other scammers.

An email from 247LiveSuport tells me that one of my domain names is due to expire within 48 hours so I need to click the link to renew it or lose it. Quite untrue – the sender’s email address is a ridiculous one many dozens of characters long, and it’s from a domain name which is the Island of Palau – not where my Internet hosting company is based. Plus, the domain name isn’t due for renewal for a long time.

“Product Enquiry with Amended Specification” is a typical scammer’s message with the title aiming it at businesses selling products rather than services. This one claims to be from Microsoft Excel which even a scammer should realise it quite a stupid thing to put. There is a link for me to click to see an audit, certification and inspection report which does not match the title claiming the email was about a product enquiry. Rubbish from a stupid scammer.

Sometimes you get sales emails from Chinese companies and you wonder if they are real – perhaps from an idiot who thinks the best way to get new business is to buy a spam list and pay for millions of emails to go to random addresses in the hope that some will go to a business that may have an interest in their products. But almost always these emails are from experienced scammers who understand that sending out what appears to product details may get the message through scam filters and may encourage some people to respond. Those that do are clearly too stupid for their own good and are likely to be scammed. The message concerned is from yotanbattery.com and lists various types of batteries they sell and offers free samples. If you respond , all you get is a sample scam.

Many businesses use Microsoft Teams and Microsoft SharePoint so scammers are trying to find scams to target these people. The latest such messages are simple phishing scams. The message is made to look like a message from SharePoint. It claims to be a reminder meeting notice but the attached file is a spreadsheet not a reminder. Then it says the attached file needs to be authorised so I have to click to do that but the button to click actually says Join Meeting – this is copied from Microsoft Teams. Clearly the scammer has little idea of what she is copying and the result is a pathetic attempt to get a user’s Teams login.

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September 7, 2022

Random Words Messages

There are many emails that turn up, that deliberately make no sense.

e.g. “Accommodating bidder, our company is rather favour your effect” from airwaylease.com

or “Darling Gentleman, Our team is upwards effect joy” from andardas-net.com.br

or “Polite consumer, is preferably favour response” from une.eu.com

or “Darling master, our partnerships are with partner” from ig.com.br

In fact these emails are for pharmaceuticals – in particular Viagra and they use the random words approach to try to get through spam filters set by the email companies.

The emails are to get you to click a link and that can be for anything – not necessarily prescription drugs.

Sadly, sending out hundreds of millions of such emails costs almost nothing so scammers and spammers will continue to do so.

If an email makes no sense – delete it. Do not click on any links.

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September 3, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

An email from Home Depot tells me I have won a Dewalt Extreme Drill. Congratulations to me! It’s not true of course – the email is from [email protected]… which is obviously made-up rubbish from a scammer, plus the sender doesn’t know my name plus most of the email is actually copied from a report about a National Forest. The scammer was trying to get the message through the email senders scam check. All rubbish as usual.

Esam Mouly sent me an email saying he has a business proposal for me. Why would someone who doesn’t know me and doesn’t even know my name have a business proposal for me? The proposal is that he wants to con me into paying him money for some fake or non existent thing. I can do without that.

The Bill and Melinda Foundation have spent billions of dollars helping the fight against Covid and now apparently they want to gift me $1.5 million for no apparent reason – just that my email address was randomly selected. I am supposed to reply with my details to cheapnet.it which is definitely not Bill and Melinda Gates. They would certainly not be dumb enough to randomly hand out cash to people they don’t know. There’s no chance of that happening.

Every company gets floods of email offers to build websites, SEO, social media management etc. Many of these are from genuine small businesses or individuals chasing work but most are simple scams. You pay and you get nothing. A latest one is from electricalwire.xyz which should put anyone off. No website business would call itself electricalwire and the only people who use the .xyz domains are either scammers or people with unusual businesses that don’t fit other more common domains.

TransferWise tell me my account has been restricted for my own protection. This is because I haven’t verified my phone number. The email is from pei.sympatico.ca which is obviously not a business called TransferWise. I don’t have an account with TransferWise so no problem.

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