Category: Website Scam

Stupidest Spam of the Week Teeth Whitening

Whitening your teeth seems to be a popular pastime with many people paying their dentist or expert practitioner to get progressively whiter and whiter teeth.

But many who cannot afford that choice go for off the shelf methods or even untested Internet methods.

This latest scam jumps on the bandwagon with “Getting a perfect smile is easier than ever before”.

It’s trying to sell a Whitening At Home System All in One Kit that gives you instant LED teeth.

Maybe the scammer is offering to remove the customers teeth and replace them with small LEDs, or maybe not.

The whole thing is just a scam, as is obvious from the confusing array of contradictory facts quoted in the messages.

It claims the method is “instant” then claims it takes only “9 minutes”.

It says no prescription is required then says it is 5 times stronger than any other whitening products on the market, many of which do need prescriptions.

It claims to be an unknown method but then says lots of celebrities are using it.

All rubbish. Teeth whitening is basically a process of using strong chemicals to strip off the outside layer of your teeth. The more that is stripped then the whiter the teeth but also the weaker they are.

If you want whiter teeth – see a professional. Don’t risk your teeth.

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Crypto Scammers

Cryptomusu is a web site offering investments in crypto currencies i.e. digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

Their way of working appears to be to be friendly and supportive of new clients then push them to invest heavily and if necessary borrow money to invest.

Typically, the investment grows initially then suddenly it goes wrong and all of the money is lost. Cryptomusu don’t care and don’t help and simply recommend the customer borrows more money to try to win back their losses.

The following is one of many bad reviews on sites such as Trustpilot.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES get sucked into this SCAM !!!
You will lose EVERYTHING. You will be encouraged to keep investing more money by any means they can, you will be promised some of your money will only be needed for a short duration of time (in days) and then returned but it NEVER happens.
You are not given all the information you need at all, eg you will need to close all your trades to be able to draw out money. You will not be told about SWAP, which swallows up most of your balance. You will have your account manager changed 2 or 3 times and when they finally realise you are not going to invest any further funds, you will be encouraged to open more trades and you will lose everything left in your balance. This company are aggressive and bullies, out to drain everything out of you that they can, whether that’s your savings or by using up your credit limits on your credit cards or BOTH !! Be warned, i wish i had checked them out more thoroughly first and read the BAD reviews on this site in my experience they are mostly TRUE !!!!

The company is registered in the Caribbean so effectively non regulated in the UK and although the FCA have been warning people against Cryptomusu, it is impossible to stop.

Cryptomusu is also associated with unitedmarkets4you.com, upperbrookstreet.com, cryptexmarkets.com and blockchainexchange.com.

Stay clear of these people and only use a registered broker with FCA registration to safeguard your investment.

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

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Website Links

Everyone with a website or blog wants lots of people to see it. There are many ways to achieve this but helping people to find it on search engines is the most popular method for most people.

One of the ways to improve the likelihood of a website coming high in Google search or other online search engines is to create lots of backlinks i.e. links from other people’s website to that one.

These should be created properly i.e. by getting links in sites related to yours and where the link is relevant and meaningful e.g. a link to Brooklands Radio from a retailer who plays Brooklands Radio in their premises or from an artist featured on Brooklands Radio or from a local business that advertises on Brooklands Radio.

However, lots of unscrupulous people try to bypass this slow process by buying links from link sellers. They charge typically $20 – $50 for hundreds of links to be created.

These are usually very poor links in that they are from sites with no relevance to your web site and probably stuffed with hundreds or thousands of such meaningless links. Google and other search engines recognise this and ignore any links from those sites.

This latest email says “We provide guest post and link placement on our fitness and health site for $95 per link”. 

That’s extremely expensive compared to other link providers.

No-one in their right mind would actually pay this, especially as the email is from a Gmail account which means there is no business and no business website, just a dumb scammer.

The last line in the email says “The price is negotiable.” which reeks of desperation.

Too bad, loser.

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The EU Business Register Scam

There are numerous business directories and usually there is a small sum to pay for inclusion. Some offer free inclusion for a basic entry then tempt you with a higher profile entry for a fee.

This is all straightforward and legal.

However, some scammers offer business directory listings with nasty hidden costs.

Recent scam emails claim to offer an entry in the EU Business Register, based in the Netherlands.

The messages look legitimate and tempt people to fill in the attached PDF of questions and expect a free entry in the directory.

The messages even include the line “Updating is free of charge”.

The scam is hidden in the very small print at the bottom of the PDF document where it says “The signing of this document represents the acceptance of … I hereby order a subscription with …   for three years. The price per year is Euro 995. The subscription will be automatically extended each year for another year….”  

Once they get the form back, the invoices start to arrive and they use heavy pressure and threats to make people pay.

However, the contract is not valid as it is obviously designed to con people.

Always make sure to read the small print on any document before signing.

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Janet And the Fake Emissions Zone Website

Janet seldom drove her car into London, but on this occasion needed to and at some point crossed into the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) and hence would have to make a payment.

Later, a quick Google on her computer gave her the website and she entered her details and paid for the day’s journey into the ULEZ.

That evening, she did think about the payment and that £19.99 seemed a strange figure and she checked online – the correct figure due was £12.50, so why had she been charged £19.99 instead?

She still had the website window open and everything looked correct except for that figure. Checking again – it was clear it was a fraud. Scammers had setup a fake website that mimicked the real one and had bought Google advertising to get their fake website to the top of the Google listing for Ultra Low Emission Zone

Janet reported the fake website to Transport for London who suggested she report it to Action Fraud, which she did, and to her credit card company.

It is possible she will get the payment back from the credit card company but days later a penalty notice for £80 arrived for failure to pay the ULEZ fee. She complained to Transport for London but as far as they are concerned, she hadn’t paid the fee therefore she has to pay the penalty.  Janet has appealed against the penalty notice.

An unfortunate mistake by Janet cost her £19.99 paid to scammers but seems it will cost her a further £80.

Sometimes these scams have far worse consequences as the scammers get hold of your confidential information and sell it to other scammers who may take out loans in your name or make other use of your online identity.

Do not trust the top website on a Google search to be the official one – check carefully.

Have you been caught out by this scam – if so, do let me know, by email.

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The US Esta Scam

UK residents make around 4.9 million visits to USA each year.  The vast majority of those visits just need an ESTA form to be filled in and submitted. These give the visitor 90 days of access to the USA.

Some scammers target specific things such as people who need to travel to the USA and formulate a scam to try to catch those people.

They rely on sending out huge volumes of these scam messages in order to catch enough people to make the scam worthwhile.

The message is from mailer @applymyesta.com

“This e-mail is in regards to your Travel authorization to USA. The ESTA Visa which you need to travel to The United States of America has expired and needs to be renewed.

Kindly, visit the website https://www.applymyesta.com/usa/esta/apply# to renew your visa or to put in a fresh application.

THANKS AND REGARDS, APPLICATION TEAM”

It is a scam website that will steal your confidential information which then gets sold to other scammers or to identity thieves.

If you need an ESTA for a visit to the USA then find the correct government web site – never trust the links in unsolicited emails.

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