Various dodgy sellers offer an emailing service that supposedly sends your emails to the contact form addresses from websites. These messages get through company spam filters generally but of course the companies do not want spam messages sent to them this way. A recent set of emails advertising this service comes from a personal Gmail address and insist on chat contact using Whatsapp or Skype or Telegram. They offer to send 1,000,000 messages for $49 so you can why the Internet is filled with spam.  There’s always repulsive people looking to make money from this kind of cheating. Never use services like these.

Emails arrive offering a new completely free online dating service. But, the emails are from an address that should be a Belgian hotel rather than a dating site, so it’s just a scam to get people to sign up to a non-existent service and inputting your personal information just hands it to the scammers to use for identity theft. Never sign up for services unless you are sure they exist and are completely safe.

Scammers send out lots of emails with malware attachments. That malware will try to infect your computer if you make the mistake of downloading and opening the attached file. This latest one targets people who use Quickbooks which is an accounts system for small businesses. It says ‘Quickbooks Notification’ and claims the attached document is a spreadsheet sent to you using a Xerox workcentre. It claims to be an xls file but in fact is xlsm which means it has macros enabled. That means the scammers can add malware into the spreadsheet and make it activate as soon as the spreadsheet is opened by the victim. Never open such attached files unless you expected it and take precautions to ensure it is safe before opening it.

“We got your recommendation from one of our partners here in Italy. We have an urgent need for some of your products and would like to place a trial order with you for them today. Kindly revert back to us to enable …”. This is the ridiculous message in an email from “Giovanni”. The email is just to find out if the email address is a genuine company and if they are dumb enough to reply to what is obviously a fake message.

Another fake payment email arrives. This one claiming to be from HSBC Advising service but is in fact from solomonadj.com which is clearly not HSBC bank. The supposed attached payment slip is in fact an HTML page which is no doubt loaded with malware or a phishing page. Never click on such links.

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It seems that everyone is getting numerous emails and text messages about DHL deliveries, Post Office parcels etc. Usually the message claims some piece of information was wrong and prevented delivery or there is a surcharge to pay. This latest one is clearly by an idiot. It claims to be from DPD couriers but the sender’s email address is trybpstabiizer.com and it says an APPLE iMac 24 inch laptop is due for delivery if I pay the outstanding £1 delivery charge.   When someone sends such an item they get the delivery charge correct – it’s not a matter of guesswork. Just a dumb scammer.

“Grandpa Robert Miller lost 63lbs with no effort” – apparently with no exercise and eating whatever foods he liked. All this because he carried out an 8 second ritual each evening. This is the typical rubbish that scammers put in their emails about magic weight loss remedies. It’s hard to imagine anyone taking this sort of thing seriously but the messages continue so maybe someone does or maybe the scammers are too stupid to recognise their failure. As usual the magic remedy is supposed to be a carefully guarded secret, but 159,000 people are already using it. Pathetic.

Another 419 scam email arrives claiming to be from the FBI. Apparently they have tried to call me about the $2 million they have to send on to me, but couldn’t get through. That’s an old story that doesn’t work nowadays that everyone uses smart phones that automatically go to answer phone if not answered.  Anyway, the FBI don’t even know my name as the email starts with Dear,    The money is apparently compensation for something unspecified. Just the usual pathetic rubbish.

An email claiming to be from Amazon tells me my account has been suspended due to failure to pay Amazon Prime subscription charges. It’s an obvious scam message as it is actually from r0ggqpgxsmxcybu-uhu49mnok2accmxe which is clearly not Amazon, plus I don’t have an Amazon subscription.

Lots of fake messages arrive supposedly from Chinese companies offering various engineering products such as transformer coils. Some of these scammers also add fake mail delivery messages so you get an email with a title such as ‘Returned Mail Delivery Failure’ which looks like one of your messages wasn’t delivered, but it’s fake. The endless details are just copied from authentic delivery failure messages and the point for the scammer is to get you to open the message and click the link to see your original message but that’s where the payload of malware is hidden. Do not trust such messages.

“A Japanese fix for belly fat” is the title of another scam email. It’s supposed to be a completely natural method for getting rid of that fat belly, was discovered in Japan and uses ingredients in everyone’s kitchen. Apparently weight loss clubs hate this remedy, which is surprising as it’s secret. Just a typical pathetic scam.

Scammers love their catchy email titles, such as ‘WAIT! Don’t throw out those old jeans. Here’s how to fit into them again with a weird exotic fruit trick’. For anyone used to getting these emails, this is a classic title – containing an instruction “Wait” then rouses your curiosity with “Don’t throw out the jeans” then entices you to read more with ‘Here’s how to …”. There is a strange picture in the email that shows a frying pan with thin red liquid and an unrecognisable white thing the size of a lemon. As always it is supposed to be a secret but also claims that over 200,000 people already use this. Must be big supplies of this ‘exotic’ fruit.

Mrs Bill Chantal tells me I have been compensated with $4.4 million by the United Nations. The money will be loaded onto an ATM card and sent to me as soon as I provide the details of my bank account, address, passport details and my Whatsapp account. Strange that someone who wants to give me lots of money doesn’t even know my name or that she’s sent the email to an admin address of a hospital.

Yet another text message claiming to be from the Post office and that I have to click the link to pay the outstanding shipping fee to be paid.  Sadly there are many millions of these message sent out every day. Never click the link in such messages – if you’re unsure if it’s real then login to the actual Post office website or APP to check, but never click that link.

Alzheimer’s toes is a new one in the world of scam email titles. It’s just another magical remedy to reverse Alzheimer’s and claims that one woman did a special toe exercise for 28 days and regained all of her memories without needing any medication. These stories are laughably bad but still they circulate.

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