Category: Time-Wasters

Any time-wasters not normally classed as scammers or spammers

July 20, 2016

Online Comments and Their Destruction

The email is titled “Is a bad online review destroying your reputation?”

It goes on

“We can remove the bad online comments and restore your reputation”.

“It is vital to remove them because 83% of people who are about book your service will Google you to see what people are saying about you and if you have just one bad review you will lose business”.

They claim they can remove all bad comments and reviews and that this is guaranteed.

So, let’s think about this.

First off, many bad reviews are fully deserved and it would be wrong if people could just remove them against the wishes of the commentator.

For the small percentage of comments are that unjustifiably bad and hence can damage a sound businesses reputation, what can be done?

The comments could be on any website hence it is ridiculous to think that there is a way to automatically remove them. It’s not possible.

The only sensible way is to write to the relevant site owners where the comments are and ask for them to be removed – supplying a justification for their removal.

So why are these emails advertising a service that cannot be real?

The senders email address is negativereviewdelete @hotmail.com – so it’s not a business just an individual with a Hotmail account.

It’s just a scam to get you to click on something they want you to click on. Maybe they charge money for this fake service – I don’t know.

But it’s all fake.

July 17, 2016

Stupidest Spam of the Week

So, what’s the dumbest scam or spam on the Internet this week?

We received an email from a technical recruitment company looking to place engineers.

No use to us – we’re a volunteer radio station.

However, sending us information on fitters, International engineers, Oil and Gas engineers, toolmakers and more is just stupid.

Do they think we build oil rigs in our spare time for overseas deployment?

Are they lazy or stupid or both?

July 16, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To?

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

An email from an American company looking for a distributor ($5,000 start-up charge) for their slip resistant floor treatments. – How many million emails would you have to send out randomly to get one reply from a real company wanting to be a distributor? Entirely pointless.

A scam email trying to get us to validate our Apple Id – pathetic.

The usual advance fee scam but this time in French about Monsieur Phillippe Marcot supposedly dying of cancer and wants to leave us 850,000 Euros. – But of course there will be advance fees to pay to get to the money but then the money never materialises and we would be out of pocket.

An email with no content – just an attached zip file and the sender’s name is Cowboy Bob. Highly appropriate

An email from Jim wanting to sell us email lists. He has lists for lots of different industry categories, chief executives, professions such as doctors, nurses, attorneys, accountants etc. – Judging by the volume of rubbish emails we get to out of date email addresses and people long since gone – these lists for sale are mostly out of date junk. Time waster.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

July 14, 2016

How Blog Comments are Auto Generated

Hi there every one, here every person is sharing such
experience, so it’s nice to read this weblog, and I used to pay a quick visit this website daily

Now that’s a very strange sentence above. The words sort of make sense but it’s written in a way that no person would ever do. How come?

Because it’s created by an automatic blog comment generator.

Here’s another example.

Very handful of web-sites that come about to become in depth beneath, from our point of view are undoubtedly nicely worth checking out.

Spammers have long since automated the process of adding spam messages to blogs as comments. It seems a stupid thing to do but it gets their message on the Internet. Google and other search engines can spot when a spammer copies a comment repeatedly on multiple blogs. So, the spammers have software that modifies the comment by using a thesaurus to replace certain words or phrases.

The result is then posted to the blog.

If you have a blog and have been getting strange comments – maybe it’s the automated comment generator at work.

If so, there’s no point complaining to the author – just delete the rubbish comments.

July 9, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

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

An offer to put 2 million banner adverts on the Internet over a 4 week period for just £645 – You can see why there are so many ads on the Internet – they are very cheap but also largely ineffective.

A Chinese printing company wanting to do our printing at low prices – it isn’t real though. Just someone looking for leads to sell.

A moron offering the recipe for a drink that can solve all problems known to mankind. And the end of the message includes half a page of random words – trying to foil the spam catcher software into thinking it’s not spam. But it so obviously is just that.

An email offering to compare accountants. The message is from [email protected] which is a giveaway that it’s just someone looking for leads to sell to accountancy companies.

A genuine email from an organisation that does language translation for business – harmless but no use to us as a volunteer radio station. The email goes on about international competitors taking our business and how much more profitable international work can be. Irrelevant.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

July 3, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

So, what’s the dumbest scam or spam on the Internet this week?

This one is from someone calling him or herself” Stitched Up” – not something to inspire confidence.

Instead of hiding who the message was sent to – the recipients names are there on show – hundreds of them similar to my email address, telling me this message has potentially gone out to many thousands if not millions of people.

The dumbest thing is that the link they want us to click on is written wrongly so shows as program code rather than a link. There isn’t anything to click on.

This idiot even left part of a previous email at the bottom of this one.

What a moron.