Some scammers put a lot of effort into their messages but some are just lazy and dumb. An email claims to be from Western Union but is in fact from a Gmail account. It has just one line in it “we write to inform you that you’re listed among the recipients of the ongoing scam victims compensation”. A pathetic lie. The sender just wants a reply so she will another ‘fish’ on the line.

An email claims that the ancient Chinese never suffered from diabetes because they had a remedy that reversed diabetes. And it’s to do with a strange morning ritual they practiced.  China has the world’s biggest problem with diabetes so don’t you think if the country already had a diabetes cure they would have avoided that problem. All wishful thinking by a greedy scammer.

419 scams – that is the advance fee scam whereby someone promises you a fortune in return for something simple e.g. processing their money through your bank account, are very common. This latest one is a belt and braces job. The email is a sob story about suffering from Leukaemia and losing her wealthy husband to cancer etc. The sender includes a PDF of the same content and a jpg picture of the same again. She seems determined to get her scam message through. She claims to be Anna Cooper from Australia but her email sender’s address is actually kellyzang so some identity crisis there. It’s just a simple scam to catch out the greedy.

“The 10 second after dinner dementia trick” is the title of a latest email scam.  There are many of these about dementia and usually involve some magic potion. A supposed 10 second trick to boost your memory by 90% and also make you lose 63 pounds in weight. This scammer is hedging her best by offering a magic cure for dementia combined with weight loss. No thanks. I’ll stick to reality.

An email arrives claiming to be from 3 separate email addresses at the same time and that’s not easy. It contains an “rar” file and those are used for compressing archives, not for invoices. The scammers use these compressed file formats in an attempt to evade malware scanners used by the email service provides. The actual message claims we have hired equipment from a shipping company in Shanghai. Why send such an email to a .co.uk address when it cannot possibly be true? That’s weird.

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“A brilliant engineer from Lexington revealed a secret project that will change electricity history for ever. NASA engineers don’t understand how they missed it and are trying to figure out how it works.” For some reason people seem to leave their common sense behind when it comes to electricity generation. The means for generating electricity are very well known and there aren’t any magical means to make it anymore than there are perpetual motion machines (they used to be a common scam).

There are many fake tinnitus cures around and this latest one shows a photo of a solider having his ears checked by a nurse or doctor. Supposedly he has only one ear but he found a mysterious solution to tinnitus that woks immediately – click the link to find out about it. No thanks – just another pathetic scammer.

Mahmud Salman writes to us saying he has an urgent order requisition for us and needs our catalogue and price list. His address claims to be in Cairo but his email address is fake Russian so that makes no sense. Obviously if he actually did have an order then he would know what busines we are in – we don’t have catalogues or price lists as we are a radio station.

‘Centralised Collections’ sent an email titled “Updated Invoice with Adjustment”. The email explains that there has been a rate adjustment and the attached invoices have been updated. The email looks professional but of course it’s a scam as we don’t know that company and obviously will not download the attached Excel file, as spreadsheets can contain malware.  

Following the numerous scam messages about how various random foods attack your gums, we now have scammers claiming that toothpastes rot your teeth. You just have to click the link and watch the video to see proof. All lies of course. Just a moron scammer wanting you to click the link for their benefit.

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Apparently, I have won 97,500 Euros on the Microsoft/Yahoo lottery. The message says it’s from Chai Menferng who spells her name several direct ways within just a few lines of the message, and it is signed by a Cameron Michael. All of these names are made-up of course. Just a simple phishing message. Microsoft/Yahoo do not give away money to the holders of random email addresses. 

A very simple scam message “I am outsourcing individuals with the capacity to receive funds of a high volume for management and administration for a period of Ten Years and subject to renewal. I will provide full details including your benefits and compensation for your consideration.” Clearly this is a deliberately meaningless message designed to attract people with no idea of what they are doing. That is sad.

Mr. Thabane Zulu tells me it is a great pleasure to communicate with me via personal email as he has a business proposal to discuss with me. The message starts with “Good Day” because he has no idea who I am, as he has sent the same email to millions of people at random. Pathetic.

It seems like half the population of India offer search engine optimisation services judging by the huge volumes of such emails most companies receive from there. There is also negative SEO which is essentially to damage your competitors in the hope that you will benefit from this. This is clearly immoral and disgusting but scammers and spammers offer these services. Never ever try such things.

A request for payment arrives from MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company listing that we owe $1,870. Doesn’t say what the bill is for just that we owe it and the sender wants us to pay by money transfer. It’s an obvious scam as we have never heard of the company and do not ship anything.

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An angry email from Karen Knight to tell me that I still owe £133.75 and this is my final notice. Never heard of her or the multiple company names mentioned in the scam email and certainly don’t owe her any money. But then she doesn’t exist – just a fake name used by a greedy scammer and I certainly wont open the attached file which is no doubt loaded with malware.

Hooray – a new cure for stubborn fat and it’s a bottle of wine. Or at least that’s what the scammer is claiming – that scientists in Massachusetts have discovered an easy and cheap way to lose half a kilo of fat every day. You just sip of glass of this wine while eating and your fat will drop away, even when you eat whatever you like. Nice fantasy but clearly only a fantasy dreamed up by a scammer.

Citibank International say they have $10.3 million in funds for me due to my wining/inheritance contract payment. The grammar in that last phrase is terrible and I presume they meant to put “winning” rather than “wining”. Even scammers have spell checkers so the mistakes are deliberate and are to ensure only the most gullible reply. An extremely obvious phishing scam message.

A message from the APPLE APP store tells me that a purchase has just been made on my account for Yi-Gi-Oh cards at $23. It’s dated “Janaury” – don’t know that month. There is an attached document I am supposed to open to check the transaction, but I think I’ll give that a miss as it’s very likely to be loaded with malware as the whole message is a simple scam.

Some scammers put a lot of time and effort into producing messages with a least a vague hope of looking genuine, but others go for the simple stupid route, such as “Your ATM Card of $5.5 Million is ready for shipment. Urgently reconfirm your full name, Delivery address and your direct phone number immediately”. If a bank wants to pay someone, they don’t normally send out an ATM card – there are simpler safer ways to make payments. Clearly if the message was genuine they wouldn’t ask me to reconfirm my name as they would know it. Pathetic.

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An email offers me £90 if I take part in a simple Sainsbury’s shopping experience survey. No-one in their right mind would pay £90 for filling in a simple survey so is obviously lies, plus the email is not from Sainsbury’s but from xxzfrfzxult.co.uk. Anything too good to be true is always a scam.

“Backyard plant gives you perfect vision” is the title of incoming emails. It looks like a scam, sounds like a scam. It is a scam. Not surprising. The message claims to have found the real cause of fading vision. Sadly it’s very common for these scammers to claim magical answers to common problems. Always lies though.

Yet another fake DHL message to say that my shipment is on its way and I can click the link to see the details. It’s a simple phishing scam. If you click the link it asks for personal information which can then be sold to other criminals. The message claims to be from DHL and has copied their graphics but is from colihauteya @hotmail.com which gives it away.

A more entertaining than usual scam message has the title “Cleopatra’s Love Making Secret for Fat Loss”. That is an odd mix in the title and the message goes on to claim that Alexander the Great used this 100% natural fat loss powerhouse. Perhaps the scammer watched a historical film and was inspired to write this rubbish. It has a list of ridiculous claims including that it gives your body life giving oxygen. I thought beathing gave us life giving oxygen rather than foodstuffs and odd supplements. Ridiculous.

There are endless diabetes scams as it is a major health problem with no easy solution. Scammer’s offer all sorts of magic remedies. This latest scammer goes for magic fruit. “Anyone can activate these secret antidiabetic cells just by adding this sweet fruit to their breakfast”. Obviously rubbish but maybe some people are so desperate for a magic answer, that they trust and click to watch the video. They will be very disappointed when they find out they are paying for nothing.

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