Many many scam messages simply want you to play their video clip as they get paid for each person who clicks to watch it. So, the scammers invent some ridiculous story to make you watch it. This latest one is another in the free electricity game. “62 year old from New Jersey discovers how to destroy your electricity bills”.  This scammer obviously a little drama as she includes the line “Rumours say the inventor was about to get killed for his secret as some bad guys wanted to steal his invention and become rich”. Just sad pathetic lies as usual.

The scam email claims that new documents have arrived for the radio station. It says it is from the new cloud service for the station. I must click to retrieve the documents (retrieve was spelled “retreive”- who doesn’t use a spell checker nowadays?). It is ridiculous and relies on people in large companies not knowing what’s going on in other parts of their business. But, as a local radio station we do know, so it’s obviously a fake email.

All businesses get lots of scam emails that try to look like product enquiries. Usually the attempt is pathetically poor as with this latest email.  “Product Inquirey” from sumporn juanggroonergruangkits which is such an obviously made up name. The email claims to be from “thaisummit” group but the email sender’s address is actually a misspelled version of that i.e. “thaisummiit” which again shows the email is from a scammer.  Never respond to product enquiries or similar unless they make sense as otherwise you’re just adding your contact details to the scammer’s mailing list which will be sold to other scammers.

For some reason, the Maersk shipping line is one the scammers like to impersonate.  Another shipping document turned up on email. This one claims to have our bill of lading, packing list and invoice attached and also the ETA of the cargo. But we don’t ship anything by Maersk because don’t ship anything into or out of the country.  Never open attached files unless you are sure what they are and who they are from. These attachments are likely to be loaded with malware so we wouldn’t touch them.

Another invoice supposedly past its due date turns up as an email. This one claims to be from FD Platinum Ltd. Never heard of them, and certainly don’t owe them any money.  The email was sent to a fake address at the radio station and is not addressed to anyone so is an obvious scam.

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