Category: Website Scam

February 4, 2019

Safe Secure Investments

The Mai on Sunday has been tracking a business called Safe Secure Investments and its sister company Direct Property Investments. They both offer what seem amazing returns – sometimes 14% in a year.

They make it seem that they are registered with the FSA but they aren’t.

That means that if anything goes wrong there is no redress through the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and you cannot complain to the Financial Ombudsman service.

The Safe Secure Investments website seems to be offline currently but direct-property-investments is Live and looking for clients.

If you are planning to invest in shares or commodities or property etc. do take expert advice and do not trust websites.

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.

January 6, 2019

Stupidest Scam of the Week – Goose Parkas

Every so often, email adverts for Goose Parkas appear – usually in the winter but also in summertime which is ridiculous.

The ads claim the Parkas are extreme weather outerwear made in Canada since 1957 and there are Parkas, coats, shell jackets, bibs, pants, gloves, mittens and hats for sale.

But the key points are that all stock is 50% off plus free shipping and then 68% off the total price.

So that 50% discount then free shipping (assumed to be about 10% of cost) then 68% off means altogether the discount is about 85%.

So you end up paying about 15% of the real price.

Obviously any business that sells products at only 15% of the real price will be out of business very soon as that must be a lot lower than the cost of making the clothes.

It’s all just fake as you can easily guess from the email address which claims to be ‘Parka’ but is actually cangoo @kjhfq.loan

It’s a scammer’s email address and the whole thing is bogus.

We all like bargains but be very careful buying bargains from anywhere you haven’t done business with.

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November 8, 2018

Amazon Fake Reviews

Amazon is the biggest eCommerce operation the world has ever seen with sales of $178 billion in 2017.

One of Amazon’s biggest sales promoters is the use of customer reviews.

If you’re going to buy something on Amazon but want to know what other people think of the product or service then you check the customer reviews and almost always they are genuine.

Amazon spend a lot of time and money ferreting out fake reviews and stopping any businesses that use or promote fake reviews and they say that more than 99% of reviews on its sites are authentic.

That doesn’t stop criminals and idiots trying to find ways around the rules of course.

Recently, organisations have been using Facebook to advertise free Amazon products in return for reviews.

The customer buys the item and is promised a full refund once they have posted a stellar review on Amazon.

It is against Facebook rules for their users to promote fake reviews, but as we all know, Facebook have trouble actually policing content on their platform.

One such Facebook group is “Amazon free product deals between reviewer and seller [UK only]” which is a closed group and describes its purpose as:-

We help Amazon UK sellers to boost up rankings via getting reviews through our gradually building reliable members.

To become a member, you need to commit to review the product with 5* within 5 days of “order”. If this is not done, you would be banned and would miss out from brilliant discounts offered!

That’s clear – you need to give top rating reviews or you are banned from the group.

That’s not how people expect customer reviews to work.

Stop cheating – as we all lose out from that.

If you do check Amazon reviews – make sure to read several and don’t be taken in by the first one your read.

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October 29, 2018

Bitcoin Victory Scam

Bitcoin Victory is being marketed as an exclusive offer which will make you a millionaire virtually overnight.

You will see the adverts and links to websites highlighting Bitcoin Victory.

It’s a clever scam based on the sales pitch of making money for no effort with a computer doing the work for you.

To make it more attractive it is marketed as an exclusive club to which only the privileged few will have access (that includes you of course).

The ads and websites typically use fake logos from reputable businesses such as Bloomberg or top banks to give the impression of authenticity.

The scammers behind Bitcoin Victory claim it is an automated trading system that deals in Bitcoins and once you have signed up it will trade your bitcoins and make you lots of money for no effort on your part.

This is clearly untrue as all currency trading is high risk and there is no such thing as a sure way to win and no computer system in the world can predict what will happen on the markets.

They claim it has been in testing and is now open to just a few discerning members of the public as long as they get in fast.

Scams often add false restrictions – you must act now; closing shortly; almost full up etc.

Your ‘investment’ is a minimum of $250 but don’t expect to make millions or ever get your money back if you try it.

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August 27, 2018

Bitcoin Trader Fake News Scam

You may have seen the glossy adverts for Bitcoin Trader – the “new way to make guaranteed money really quickly”.

“Cash in on the Bitcoin miracle”.

Or you may have seen the news items on the Internet about how various celebrities are throwing in their lot with Bitcoin Trader.

These are fake news items – invented entirely to con people into believing in this new scam, but they look like genuine news items and often carry the logos of respectable newspapers and online news agencies.

One shows Gordon Ramsay saying he’s sold half of his restaurant empire so he can invest £100 million in Bitcoin Trader.

Another shows Elon Musk giving up car making as Bitcoin Trader is more profitable.

A very angry Martin Lewis – the consumer champion, has tried repeatedly to get the fake news items of him endorsing Bitcoin Trader removed but to no avail.

Then there’s one of Richard Branson buying into Bitcoin Trader in a huge way.

These celebrities do what they can to stop the criminals using their names to con people but it’s is difficult as criminals ignore lawyers and lawsuits even if you can identify who they are.

The other unusual thing used by scammers to con people into buying Bitcoin Trader is the claim that its intention is to spread wealth so that the top 0.1% don’t own half of the planet’s resources any longer. The reality is just that the scammers want as much for themselves as they can get and don’t care who loses out.

Ignore such fake news items and ignore anything claiming that Bitcoin Trader made them rich – only for scammers.

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.

August 19, 2018

Stupidest Scam of the Week – Michael Kors

The email title is ‘Win $81’

But is actually a scam message for a fake Michael Kors sale.

‘Black July Sale’ – this moron doesn’t realise July is over and she is sending out old messages.

The sales promised 80% off plus 90% off which adds up to 170% off. Now that would be good as they would be paying you to take the goods away.

Supposed to mean 80% or 90% off I assume, plus there is free delivery, no minimum spend, same day dispatch, 100 days to return items for full refund etc.

This scammer is trying everything to get people to click and order.

All just a pathetic scam. Obviously no-one could survive in business offering to virtually give their products away.

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