Category: Scam email

November 11, 2022

Don’t Fall For Phishing Scams

Phishing is where the scammers send out messages attempting to trick people into divulging their login and password or other personal details or financial details. Often this is by pretending to be from the government or a trusted retailer or broadband supplier or any trusted organisation.

It is nearly impossible to avoid these people getting your contact information but you can reduce the chances as follows:

Learn to spot the spams

Be careful over any emails that you did expect and check the details for the signs of a scam. These include:

The content makes little sense e.g. from a Chinese company trying to sell you replacement valves for your generator.
The sender is unknown or anonymous.
The email may contain misspelled words and sentences purposely designed to fool spam filters such as Amaz0n for Amazon.
Offers that seem too good to be true.
A desperate urgency, pushing you to click or respond immediately or lose the chance.
Links that when you hover the cursor over them go to somewhere that doesn’t match the link.

Avoid public posts

Anytime you put your email address on the Internet it can be seen and recorded by many people. Be careful where you sue your email address and if necessary create fake temporary email addresses.

Use graphics to disguise your email address. Make it into a graphic – that is more difficult for screen scrapers to make sense of.
Confuse

Scramble, your email address by using HTML and JavaScript in emails. This is harder for screen readers to see the real email address.

Be careful with your email address – you don’t want it to taken over by scammers.

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

November 6, 2022

Website Scraper

A strange email from promotions@ a vaping retailer.

It makes no sense as it claims we use a specific piece of software for scraping websites. This means software that basically copies what you see on a website rather than trying to read the programming code behind the website.

Only cheats use such software and the radio station certainly doesn’t.

The email goes on asking questions, asking for our opinions of how it works and if the price correct and should they buy it and so on.

Maybe they are dumb enough to think the radio station will advertise their products – there’s no chance of that.

Maybe they just want a reply so they can chase for a mention.

Not going to happen.

Stupid emails like that one just get deleted.

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

October 31, 2022

Product Safety Issue Scam

An email message arrived written as though I was an Amazon seller and there’re were some safety problems with my products sold on Amazon.

Latest stats from Amazon show just under 10 million companies/people registered as sellers and about 2 million active sellers.

So that’s a lot of people for scammer to target, but sending out random emails, even by the millions isn’t going to reach many of them.

“We remind you that you are responsible for the products you list on Amazon”.

“We are writing to let you know that products you have offered for sale have been removed due to the following safety issue”.

That last line then shows a link claiming to be about a product recall but it’s to a phishing website made to look a little like Amazon and it asks for your login ad password of course.

Those details are sent automatically to the scammer which can then make use of your acco8nht to sell bogus products, scam other people, but products in your name and have them shipped to his scammer colleagues and so on.

“We will automatically dispose of any remaining products 30 days after this message, at your cost”.

The email is from amz.co.uk.de which may look like Amazon but is a meaningless website address in Germany.

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

October 29, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

An email from Santander bank tells me that my security is their priority. Plus, my account is temporarily under review. Is that worrying? No. The email looks professionally written and looks genuine and has the correct logo and address. But the sender’s email address isn’t Santander – it is support @anyhowverrecruit.com so it’s obviously a scam. I won’t be clicking the link to verify my account as requested.

“Do you know there is a proven method for reducing debilitating knee pain and helping you live pain free that works faster and more effectively than any other?” is a good sales pitch in the email title, but it’s just a scam message. The message just wants you to click the link to see the answer, but there’s nothing genuine about the message. Never click links in unsolicited emails however harmless they may look.

Many scam email titles are really the opposite of the contents following – they are designed just to make you question something then read the email and fall for whatever they are selling. “Your coffee is cancelled” is the title, but the message is about a supposed 10 second coffee trick that increases your fat burning enormously but also prevents an elevated heartrate or any other side effect of caffeine. Either you take caffeine and get the energy boost and elevated heart rate or you don’t take it and get neither effect. Rubbish email from a scammer.

There are endless Coinbase scam messages, most of which tell you either you have lots of money in your Coinbase account or that it’s about to be closed due to some problem in your information or a change in legal requirements or someone has accessed your account. The latest sets of such messages go back to ‘Your Coinbase Account Has Been Temporarily Disabled’. All meaningless rubbish of course – especially as I don’t have a Coinbase account.

Almost all scam message start with a dramatic title e.g. “Sugar Hack Destroys Diabetes Type II”. That title guarantees the message is a scam. If there was such a method you would have seen it on the news and in the newspapers and magazines and every online service. But it isn’t true. Just more lies from evil scammers. This message goes on about whether zucchini or bell peppers are worse for diabetics to eat. You have to click to read the non existent scientific studies but the link takes you to a scam website ready to download malware onto your computer. To be avoided.

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October 23, 2022

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week Nasa Secret

“An earth shattering secret NASA experiment is finally being exposed…”.

Obviously this scam artist likes being melodramatic.

The email is about the ‘wealth DNA’ that we all have and just needs to be activated.

This story spreads every so often – it is like a fantasy story but some people are so desperate they will believe ridiculous things.

This scammer wants to combine Eastern mysticism with Western desires for money.

“And proves something that the teachings of the ancient chakras have been claiming for thousands of years”.

“All you need to do is activate the centre that attracts wealth”.

So you have DNA, wealth and chakras all mixed together.

Maybe the scammer knows this is complete drivel or maybe he or she thinks it’s plausible.

But it isn’t – it is rutter rubbish.

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October 22, 2022

Time-Wasters Update

“Slipper Disney Sub Supplier HJ” is a strange name for an email sender but this one claims to be a shoe manufacturer in Guangdong Province. They profess to mainly make flip-flops and slippers. Would any genuine company in China send such rubbish to millions of random email addresses on a spam list? Maybe some are just that dumb.

The next scam email tells me my ID was looked up. It goes on to explain that this means someone clicked the ‘Forgot My Password” button on a website and they have to confirm whether it was me. However, it doesn’t state what company or website is concerned so is an obvious phishing scam. The scammer wants me to click a link then enter my login and password which is then sent to the scammer. No chance of that.

There are many thousands of weight loss products on the market and probably most work to some degree and the rest are bogus. “Treatment of Overweight and Obesity” is the email title and while it is not very good English it is clear on what the sender is trying to sell. The product is called PRIMA which may or may not exist, however the email sender’s address is 8y75fdds21a3 @factory-art.radio.fm and anything .radio.fm should obviously be a radio station, but isn’t. So, it would be dumb to place any trust in such an email. If you want weight loss products then research what’s available and what doctors say about them and never trust unsolicited emails.

An email from Jason Dunn offers to improve our WordPress website. He wants to arrange a call to discuss this. But he’s obviously bought a spam email list and the radio station doesn’t have a WordPress website so you’re out of luck moron.

Walmart want to know if I received my package from them. The morons who send out these messages don’t seem to understand that a .co.uk email address means the recipient is in the UK and hence there is no Walmart to deliver anything. The sender’s email address is not Walmart as it is zoqloq19.com pretending to be from Walmart support.

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