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.

To enter your email address and click on the subscribe button on top right to keep up to date with new posts.

Fightback Ninja Signature

 

Retrieve It Service

“Retrieve It” is an online service at www.retrieve-it.com

It was setup to counter the rise of online brokers who are scammers.

Retrieve-It say:

“After years of observing how trading scams have ruined the lives of tens of thousands of individuals – we decided to do something about it.

Unregistered brokers such as Forex, Binary Options, and Cryptocurrencies usually rely on your fear of losing your investment or an opportunity of making money, fear of the unknown and inexperience.

We can make a difference. Let us show you how.”

Is there a big problem with unscrupulous brokers? Yes.

investment fraud is estimated to cost Americans more than $10 billion a year. It is difficult to know the real figure as it is assumed that many people don’t report such scams for they feel foolish at having been conned.

The website at https://commodity.com/brokers/avoid-scams/ looks at a lot of the scams involved.

Retrieve-It services include:

New online brokers, new cryptocurrencies and new ways of scamming people keep happening and it is difficult for anyone to keep pace with the rate of change.

If you are unsure of a broker you want to do business with or need to recover assets from a dodgy broker – check out www.retrieve-it.com

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

Fightback Ninja Signature

Car Contents Theft

Lucy’s story.

My family and I were out for a short break and returning home along the motorway. I parked in a motorway services for a break.

I made sure there wasn’t anything that looked valuable on display inside the car, pressed the key fob to lock the car and we went indoors.

On return to the car, there was no sign of a break-in or any damage and we drove home without realising what had happened.

At home, unpacking the car led to the realisation we had been robbed – the suitcases in the boot had been removed. Someone had got into the car and stolen our luggage.

I didn’t know there are devices that can block the signal from the key fob. I thought I had locked the car but obviously someone had jammed that signal and the car was left unlocked. We were only gone 10 minutes but it was long enough them to take what they wanted.

In future I will always check that the car is locked before walking away from it.

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

Fightback Ninja Signature

London Police Cyber Crime

In the year 2019/2020 the London Police recorded 27,187 reports of cybercrime, comprising

  • 13,271 reports of hacking social media and email
  • 7,095 reports of computer viruses / malware
  • 3,605reports of personal hacking

These reports amount to a reported loss of £5.4 million.

Perhaps surprisingly, the people at highest risk of being scammed were 20-29 year olds.

The most common methods most used by the cyber criminals were:-

  1. Phishing emails – messages that claim from be from an authority of some kind, but seek to get your personal information e.g. login and password, credit card details etc.
  2. Weak passwords i.e. ones that can be guessed or are a word in the dictionary
  3. Weak security that allows attackers access for ransomware or to breach the security to steal data

The most commonly reported example of phishing was fake emails offering a TV licence renewal.

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

Fightback Ninja Signature