Mr. Phillip Smith claims to be a research assistant for a pharmaceutical company in Spain. He says he has a business proposal to discuss with me, but he doesn’t know my name and his return email address is ps34910036354190811 @ gmail and that is such an obvious scammer address. It would be crazy to reply to such a dumb email.

A text message from Lloyds bank tells me that a new person has been added to my account and if it wasn’t me then I need to click the link to stop this. The link is to lloydbank-beneficary.com which is not Lloyds bank – just a criminal.  Check carefully before clicking a link in a text message.

Yet another fake bank message. This one claims to be from Santander warning me that my account needs my contact details updated. The message was sent to a fake email address at the radio station, invented by a scammer who apparently sells made-up email addresses. The email is from santasecurity26.com which is amusing but it’s certainly not Santander.

Commonly, scam emails claim you owe them money and you must download the attached invoice. This latest one has a twist – the message claims I have sent them a remittance for £453.79 but they are not sure what it’s for so I need to get in touch and clarify the situation. The message includes an 0800 freephone number. The message includes one deliberate misspelling as many of these messages do, trying to evade spam filters. “remiattacne” is not the expected way to spell “remittance”.  I wont be calling that number or replying to the email message.

Justice Mora sends us a ‘friendly reminder’ that payment is due on an invoice. The email has lots of fake details and says the payment is due after 45 days but also shows a due date that is 32 days after the order was placed. So this scammer either copied the details from another scammer’s emails or is unable to count. The email claims the invoice is for $0007.25 and is for solar panels. That’s some very cheap solar panels. It’s all just lies of course – entirely made up by the scammer.

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Fiona Powell of carpenterios.pt tells me my account is 30 days past due date and this requires my immediate attention. I should contact her to setup a payment plan and the email includes two phone numbers. The email doesn’t say what the invoice is actually for which a real reminder would. It is a strange scam email as you cannot pay an invoice when you don’t have a copy of it and hence know the amount involved. Perhaps a forgetful scammer or just a stupid one.

An email claiming to be from Tesco tells me I have been selected as one of only 250 people to receive a Tesco survey and in return will get a gift voucher worth serious money at Tesco. Nope. Tesco does not do this kind of amateur Marketing. Lots of scammers use fake surveys to get your confidential information. Do not trust this kind of email.

Miss Monica Stone of Florida, USA tells me she is a registered representative in a Bitcoin investment company. So far she has introduced more than 750 people into Bitcoin investment and they are all earning good profits. She wants to introduce me to the money making opportunities. All lies of course. Her email address is customer_mers53451029812 and it’s a Yahoo personal address. So she’s just an evil scammer looking for people to fall for a Bitcoin scam or to get their details so she can sell them to other Bitcoin scammers.

David Moore says he has an offer for me – he wants to repatriate funds to my country although he obviously doesn’t know which country that is. He says he works in a US bank. The email sender’s address is a Myron Grey so this scammer cannot even be consistent with his fake name. Just a typical phishing email after your confidential details.

Most scammers are dumb as dirt but this latest one cannot even count. The message says my email account has almost exceeded its limit and shows a graphic to demonstrate that it is using 1279 MB out of 2000 MB available. That’s not what anyone else would say is almost at its limit. The message is from an Argentinian email domain that is nothing to do with our email provider.

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