Stupidest Spam of the Week Undertake Scribe

There are many people and businesses who will create any kind of copy you wish, for web pages, books, ebooks, college essays, articles etc.

Some are very good and some are essentially idiots trying to take advantage of the fact that many people are lacking confidence in their writing and need some help with that for their essays, articles, web pages etc.

Also, some APP developers try very hard to make computer systems able to produce good quality copy or to take previously written copy and rearrange it to create something that appears to be new copy – useful for spammers wanting post the same thing repeatedly with just minor differences.

There is also the Grammarly APP which is heavily advertised and does seem quite good at helping people to improve their grammar.

Back to the idiots – a latest email appears to be an attempt to attract people who want original copy written on their behalf, but the email is a collection of ridiculous statements that would only convince the reader to go elsewhere

e.g.

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Amplify the comprehensive return speciality profundity
We resolution make steadfast to customise postulated requirements
Our whack writer waiting has been propitious
Lease out unique dissertation chirography mace that has the provocation
Scribble your essays ordered better
So if you emergency a professional holograph gossip columnist

This is all very funny but sad that such rubbish messages are being sent out by the million.

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July 17, 2021

Time-Wasters Update

An email arrives looking as if from Santander bank. The correct logos and graphics, security information, well written and claiming to be from The Santander Online Banking Help Team to warn us that they suspect an unauthorised transaction on our account. But the email sender’s address is tts-concreterepairs.com which really gives the message away as a scam, plus, we don’t have an account at Santander.

Binti Danish Rayyan sent an email to the radio station titled ‘Greetings from Malayasia’. Sounds friendly but is just a scam as the email offers us to the opportunity to submit bids for supply to the government of Malaysia for 2021/22. The government would be to be very hard up to send out mass emails to unknown companies for unknown products and from an Outlook address. We won’t be submitting any bids.

Another wave of fake emails claiming to be from IONOS and needing me to confirm my email address or to reactivate my account. No thanks – the message is from active10_21518098111@ bellianti.net which is not IONOS.

PayPal users are a big target for scammers – sending out endless emails claiming that your PayPal account is blocked or that there is suspicious activity on your account or something similar. The latest one has the title ‘Paypal L*m**ited’. The reason for the asterisks is to try to bypass the email providers blocking such messages and home users filtering out such rubbish. But is still rubbish of course and should be deleted.

A message arrives claiming to be from Yahoo and using their logo etc. but is an obvious fake. It says that a new phone number has been added to my account and if I didn’t do this then I should click the link to logon and correct it. But the link goes to gvbzc1wessddxx.nsmteytravv.senka.jp which is an obvious scam website as no-one but a scammer would want such an obscure web site address.

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July 15, 2021

Suckers List

A sucker list is a list of contact details for people suspected to be vulnerable to various types of scam and these lists are sold by scammers and hackers to other scammers.

The lists are usually made up of people who have replied to scam emails, texts or letters or they can be details of people who have fallen for a scam, as people who have been scammed before have a higher probability of falling for a subsequent scam.

Once your name is on a sucker list, you are likely to be inundated with scam emails, texts and letters.

Your details may end up on a suckers list simply because you made an online donation to charity or click a link in an email without checking what it was for or for downloading an APP from a site that isn’t Google or APPLE.

Some organisations sell their contact lists to others without properly checking that the buyer is trustworthy or maybe hackers get into business contact data and upload it to the dark web.

Can You Remove Your Name from Sucker Lists?

That isn’t possible, as these people are criminals so any request to them to stop sending you messages just confirms that the email address is active and hence worth more than a dead email address.

But there are ways to limit these solicitations and stay off future lists.

The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) is an industry trade group that offers a service called DMAchoice that allows users to remove their names from the mailing lists maintained by those members. But that only works with reputable companies.

If you think your details are on suckers lists the only answer is to change your telephone number, logins and passwords etc. even this can be time consuming and inconvenient.

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

July 14, 2021

Paying on Shopify Sites

Shopify is a software service used for building and running online shops.

It has about 20% of the market currently and is very popular for its reliability, ease of use and pricing.

As a user, you don’t need to know the technology used by your favourite retailers with their online shops – just that it is safe.

Shopify sites typically use one or more of the following payment services

Shopify
Shop Pay
Paypal
Google Pay
Apple Pay
Amazon Pay

The built in Shopify Pay service is easiest for the retailer, but they can choose what they want.

Recently, Shopify created the Shop app to put hundreds of thousands of independent merchants in one convenient app. If you buy using the Shop App, they say that your card information is already encrypted and protected.

The app also allows split payments e.g. pay by instalments, which seems to becoming increasingly popular as a way of avoiding credit card interest payments.

You choose how you want to pay.

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

July 12, 2021

Domain Name Renewal Scam

It is simple for scammers to get lists of Internet domain names and the dates they are due to expire and the name of the company that registered each domain name.

With a little effort, they can also obtain matching email addresses associated with those domain names.

So, then they can send out emails to those email addresses claiming that the domain name is due to expire shortly and you must click the link to renew or lose that domain name.

For example, recent such emails claiming to be from Fasthosts warn the radio station that it’s domain name will expire soon and then all email services will terminate, the website will be shutdown, business will be lost etc.

Fasthosts is a genuine Internet company and nothing to do with this scam.

The messages use the Fasthosts logo and sections of text taken from genuine Fasthosts emails and it is designed to frighten the recipient into clicking the link to renew.

But it’s a link to a fake website intended to look similar to Fasthosts, so it can steal your login and password and financial details.

If you receive such warnings, do check with the actual hosting company about the expiry date and whether a renewal is need. Do not click links in such emails.

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

July 11, 2021

Stupidest Spam of the Week Vegetable Diabetes

There are so many scam messages about diabetes and some magic new cure that it must be difficult for scammers to think up more angles on the same basic story.

Diabetes types I and II are a scourge of the Western world and getting worse, so it’s an obvious choice for scammers to offer fake cures.

This latest scam has the subject line: “Green veggies are supposed to be good for you, right?”

And it goes on about a vegetable you think would help in the battle against diabetes but is actually the cause of it.

There is a list of vegetables and you are supposed to click on the one you think is the culprit.

All of the links are the same however, so it doesn’t matter which you click on – you end up at the same scam page.

Diabetes is where the body has difficulty processing sugar in the blood and producing insulin to control the level of sugar in the blood.

Now, all green vegetables contain only small amounts of fruit sugar so cannot possibly be an issue with diabetes.

The sweetest green vegetable is peas which contains around 6g of sugar per 100g.

On food packaging labels, the foods with more than 22 g of sugar per 100g are considered as high in sugar and 6g per 100 is considered very low.

Stupid scammer.

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