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.

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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.

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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.

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Fake LinkedIn Invitations

LinkedIn is the biggest social media platform for businesses. It used to be avoided by scammers but now many scammers target LinkedIn and try to get login and passwords and then run various scams.

Genuine LinkedIn invitations from other businesses come from a LinkedIn address and invite you to login to LinkedIn and respond.

Fake invitations may say they are from LinkedIn but you can see the sender’s email address is something else e.g. a fake invitation from a scammer claiming to be Kate Chan is actually from htrc.com

The message from “Kate Chan” asks me to download the attachment to see the business offer she is making, but the attachment is a web page – no doubt setup to look like the LinkedIn login screen – she’s trying to get my access information.

The scammer may have bought a list of email addresses on LinkedIn or may just be sending out to random email addresses in the hope some are on LinkedIn.

If you’re on LinkedIn and get one of these messages – that’s just luck.

Kate’s message included the genuine LinkedIn graphics and a business photo of her – no doubt stolen from some unsuspecting woman’s social media feed.

All fake – so be careful and don’t assume messages that look OK on LinkedIn are safe. They may not be.

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

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Fat Vaccine

This scammer must have decided she’d cash in on the success of the Coronavirus vaccines by inventing a story about a vaccine against fat.

It is a ludicrous idea of course.

She claims ’One of our top scientists has just made a shocking discovery’.

‘He has secretly researched and helped hundreds of people with his vaccine against fat’.

She claims that this new method gives freedom from restrictive diets and the need for exercise and is also free from medication of any kind.

For some unexplained reason it also makes you look 10 years younger.   

The method takes just 5 seconds per morning and has been hailed as stunning by Harvard and Stanford.

However, as well as being applauded by such experts, it’s also a secret available now to you, if you click the link to learn more.

So,

  1. it’s secret but lots of people know about it and use it.
  2. It is a vaccine but is not a medical treatment of any form
  3. It makes you look 10 years younger
  4. Top scientists say its outstanding but scientists are also frightened and weight loss companies are in uproar

The whole fantasy is pathetic from start to finish.

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