Category: Spam

November 12, 2017

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

Yet another flurry of stupid emails about wood working.

“You can’t shop for him because he has everything” – then take him to the doctors quickly.

“But he doesn’t have this. Rated the best gift 2017”– only rated best gift by scammers.

“Construct anything you can dream of”

So, how about a Ferrari or a private jet or a diamond ring or perfect health or great friends or a beautiful partner. A wooden Ferrari is just a toy and a toy diamond ring is really dumb.

Does anyone ever fall for this stream of rubbish? One in a million? One in a billion? Or is the scammer still hoping for a first response – possibly from someone long since brain dead?

Carpentry is a great skill to have, but these emails are just about conning people, not about learning true wood working skills.

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November 11, 2017

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Apparently “A Long Lost Navajo Remedy Restores Hearing for 53,477 people”. Nope – just a lying scammer.

Now, “A Cornell University Student Does Something Shocking”. Supposedly she lost 20 pounds this week. Must have been quite a week as I assume she had one leg or both arms removed.

Nsb @pamcot.date tells me my Blood Pressure Summary is ready. Surprising to learn that people I’ve never met can read my blood pressure from across the Atlantic in Canada.

An email from hr @moe.go.th says he is still waiting for my reply about his foundation project. Make sure to hold your breath till you get my reply – never.

Sabine Schrader wants to check on my supply of purchase orders #1987117 and #1987128 and the parts listed in the attached file. But the attached file is virus laden so I won’t be opening it.

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November 9, 2017

Patriot Power Generator

There is a genuine product called a Patriot Power Generator and it’s for sale in America.

It is like it sounds but also things you don’t expect. The basic version contains:-

a power generator
Solar Panels
a 72 hour survival food kit
water filter
multi tool
reports about the power grid problems etc.

There are endless spam emails trying to sell these devices.

I can’t imagine these things selling well in the UK except for camping or caravans. But in America some people have the mind-set of not trusting the government and thereby wanting to take precautions against various extreme eventualities such as a long term power outage.

Californians already know what power outages are like – thanks to the days of the Enron Corporation.

The email selling these power generators focuses on creating paranoia

“It’s 8:47 am and people are panicking in the streets…

We are now in a state of emergency.

The look of fear in your family’s eyes hits you like a punch in the guts”

There’s lots more of this stuff.

Seems a very nasty way to sell power generators.

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November 8, 2017

Clickbank Causes Spam

For much of this year, there have been huge numbers of spam emails relating to a Flight Simulator game and to Wood Working plans.

These message seem crazy as they are so frequent and sent to the same people and surely if someone wants to buy a Flight Simulator package they will have done so and why would anyone in their right mind buy thousands of wood working plans, supposedly to instantly start a carpentry business.

But these two products are very very popular on Clickbank.

Clickbank is a marketplace for people selling products online (mostly digital products) and people wanting to make money by helping to sell those products as affiliates of the seller. These people earn commission for each product sold.

Typically an affiliate will use a website (their own or other people’s) and send out emails to attract people to a website that sells the product (sometimes called a sales landing page).

This marketplace works well for a lot of people but sometimes very high commission is offered on stupid products and the world fills up with spam.

e.g. Ted’s Wood Working Product offers 75% commission to affiliates getting people to visit Teds sales page and buy the product.

The original sales pitch is for thousands of wood working plans for $69 but then there’s an upsell and more sells and the average purchaser ends up paying over $125 in total.

Ted’s Wood working claims to be number one 1 in Clickbank’s home and garden category for 5 years running, so people flock to try to sell the stuff and the world is full of stupid emails claiming you can make huge money making wooden objects within days of reading the plans.

e.g. 2. Virtual Pilot 3D Flight Simulator offers 70% commission on sales and claims sellers make an average of $88 per sale including upsells and more sells. They claim to convert page views to sales at the rate of 8% so eight in every hundred people visiting the sales page go on to buy the product.

Again, people flock to sell this product and the world is full of stupid emails claiming this software can make you a real pilot or is good as actually visiting the places depicted etc. Idiots use any line to try to get people to the sales page.

Oh to rid the world of spam!

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November 4, 2017

Time-Wasters Update

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Shaun Huff tells me I can earn $2,500 per week with data entry on Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Not true – just the usual scammer rubbish.

A pre-arrival notification from DHL with an attached receipt to be opened. But I’m not expecting anything by DHL and the message is actually from [email protected] which is definitely not DHL so I wont be opening the malware laden attachment.

There’s a lot of dumb scammers out there sending out the most ridiculous emails. This one says ”Lose 17 this week, with this easy trick”. Too dumb to notice it doesn’t say 17 of what – could be elephants, UFOs or fingernails. More likely £17 for a start.

There’s a voicemail for me to listen to from number 14513405436 according to Voicemail Service. The message is labelled as being sent from [email protected] which does not exist and is sent to ‘You’ which is not very specific. To make it worse the scammer has misspelled her link command so the link she wants us to click cannot work. Quite pathetic.

A simple phishing email tells me I’ve won $4.5 million from Society Charity Welfare and I just need to reply with my name, age, gender, address and mobile phone number to claim. So, I’ve won even though they don’t actually know my name. Strange way to give prizes. But of course there is no prize.

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October 29, 2017

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

An email claiming to be from a Chinese company that manufacturers high quality industrial flour milling machines, food gritting machines and granular food flour processing lines.

So they sent the sales email to a radio station – very intelligent.

The email address shows it’s from huinachuixing786 @163.com but a real company would have its own email system not use an Internet service like 163.com

So the email is from a scammer.

It starts off with

“Good day Sir or Madam,

I am so glad to have received your message”

Of course, we didn’t send them any message. We’re not buying flour milling machinery this week as we’re stacked out with those already.

Just a stupid scam looking for people to reply to the email and hence tell the scammers that they have a live email address and are gullible enough to respond to ridiculous emails.

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