Tag: netflix

November 28, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

Joe Murray offers to write 5 star glowing reviews of our business on Google – for payment of course. Clearly this is disgraceful and in many countries it is illegal. Google are very clear that businesses must not in any way solicit positive reviews. Let’s hope Joe is caught and prosecuted.

How to make money at home with a side income is a subject many people search for on the Internet. One latest set of scam emails claim you can make hundreds of dollars for an hours work putting videos clips on YouTube. Obviously no-one will pay a large amount of money for something so simple and legal. It’s a scam. People only get paid for such activities on social media if it is illegal. Don’t be conned into thinking there is easy way to make a fortune.

There are lots of Netflix phishing emails because so many people now have Netflix accounts. This latest one claims that Netflix could not complete the payment for the subscription and I need to click the link to review my billing details. As the sender doesn’t know my name it’s an obvious scam, plus the fact that I don’t have a Netflix account.

Hampton Lovett are consulting surveyors but they send out spam emails about helping businesses to get a reduction on their business rates. Whether or not they can actually do that – their emails contain marketing exaggerations (i.e. lies) and they’ve bought a spam email list as they sent such an email to the radio station addressed to someone who left 6 years previously. Pathetic. Any professional organisation should do much better.

“Government’s darkest secret sees the light of day due to Coronavirus situation”. You might expect something interesting following that headline, but it’s just an email claiming yet another invention that makes electricity free for everyone. Boring rubbish. Of course – there is no such invention and anyone who thinks that government’s biggest secret is a simple invention needs to get a better imagination.

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February 23, 2019

Time-Wasters Update

Sovereign Weight Alliance have a new weird method for turning your body into a fat burning machine. And the first 350 takers get a discounted weight loss bundle. Maybe the bundle is just a roll of duct tape so you can tape your mouth shut to stop that pesky food getting to your stomach. There’s no end to the scammers promising magic weight loss – but they are all fake. Exercise more and eat a healthier diet to lose weight.

“The Stylish and Discreet Weapon Bad Guys Don’t See Coming – Get 1 Free”, so the email claims. What could it be? A Ferrari? A Shotgun? A guided missile? An Avalanche? Who cares? It’s all just rubbish but presumably some people fall for this. Turns out to be a concealed knife. It is sad that people sell these things.

An email to someone at the radio station who sadly died some years ago insists that he update his Netflix account payment details. Just the usual scammer rubbish.

Trish Goff wants me to review her new design of hair brush. She says she is reaching out to me because I am a beauty enthusiast. The Fightback Ninja has never been accused of being a beauty enthusiast and definitely does not need a hairbrush. It’s all fake of course – she just wants your personal details to sell to other scammers.

“Harper Smith” of autotechranking.online wants to offer SEO services, but his grammar is a bit of a let-down. “Want more clients and customers. We will analysis your website”. You can analysis anything you want but you certainly won’t get any work from us.

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September 17, 2018

The Netflix Free TV Scam

The email is titled ‘Information About Your New TV’.

“Recently, it was discovered that Netflix has more users than any other streaming service in the UK, and we would like to celebrate.”

“We have randomly chosen twenty five individuals to receive a brand new sixty five inch Samsung Smart television from us.”

That’s quite a catchy message and will make some people keep reading for how they get their free TV.

Click on the usual “Click Here” and you start the process which is four extremely easy questions for which everyone will get the answers correct and the page tells you that you are right and thanks you for answering.

Then all you have to do to get your new TV is either click to login to your account or click to make a new Netflix account.

If you click to login then you get a fake login screen and you are handing your login and password to the scammers who can sell that information and someone else will use your account at your expense.

If you click on the ‘Open a New Netflix Account’, this leads to a fake registration page. Once registered, you don’t get a Netflix account – just the scammers then sell your information and use it to make themselves a real Netflix account but with you paying the bills.

Either way, there is no free TV, just criminals scamming you.

Don’t be fooled – free TVs are not free.

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