Tag: scam

June 27, 2016

The Lottery Club Scam

The email says it’s from Euro Club but the email address is Sally at blogsite.co which means it’s just fake.

The title of the email is Tuesday £17 Million Jackpot – Play Euromilions and get a free line.

The email is full of stuff about winning and specifically that if you pay for one line they will give you another one free. So that’s twice the chance of winning.

Have you ever known the Euro Millions lottery to give away free lines ? NO

Not going to happen.

It’s just to sucker people in thinking they get something for nothing.

But in fact they will get nothing for something as once you’ve given your credit card details – I expect it’ll be bye bye to your money.

The link in the email that it asks you to click on is a redirect meaning they are hiding where your click takes you.

It’s just a scam.

Don’t be taken in by free offers that can turn out to be very expensive. If you want lottery tickets – but online at the official website only or buy National Lottery and Euromillions tickets at your newsagent.

June 26, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

An email from Amelia Lily ([email protected]) titled ‘I am thinking of you’

This is clearly intended to be romantic and supposedly contains her attached photos.

It warns – see the photos but quickly remove them.

That suggests they are naughty photos.

But the desired effect is cancelled by the fact that the scammer is too dumb to hide the addresses of the recipients so you can see it’s been sent to hundreds of men. The names are all similar to mine which suggests it’s one of a set of probably many thousands of such emails sent out.

Romantic – I don’t think so.

Just dumb!

June 25, 2016

Those Time-Wasters

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Energy GB sent us an email titled ‘You Could Save Over £350 On Your Annual Energy Costs” – we don’t pay energy bills as that’s included in our annual rent. Therefore Energy GB would have to pay us £350 per year for their claim to be true.

Malaga Parking. An exciting new Malaga Airport Parking Opportunity- Really? Could anyone be taken in by such rubbish?

Tickets for a band called Freestyle performing at the Cutting Room in New York city – we aint exactly in or near to New Your city so why would anyone send us this? It doesn’t even say what date they are on. Dumb.

Get free quotes from leading debt collection agencies. So its not even a business – just an aggregator of debt collection agencies. But we’re a volunteer organisation. NO bad debts.

Andrea from Bensheng Furniture Factory wants to make furniture for us to sell in England – There is a Bensheng furniture business in China but do they really think the best way to find partners in the UK is to send out huge volumes of spam messages to random companies ? How many UK business sell furniture? – must be less than one in a thousand.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

June 18, 2016

An Update on Those Time-Wasters

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

An email titled “‘How to Photoshop your food and drinks to make them look stunning webinar” –What? You must be kidding.

An email about an APP for employee engagement – Any business that wants to interact with its staff through an APP doesn’t sound to me to be worth working for.

The Hottest Weight Loss Solution. Get your free bottle today – Yeah right! Another sad scam. This one from the Ukraine.

An email asking for volunteers supposedly from the Volunteer Centre in Surrey – but no content in the email after the title. Just a link to click on that is labelled Unsubscribe, but clearly is a scam.

A message from Barclays Bank wanting to pay us $1.2 million from the United Nations- but the real email address it’s from is [email protected]. Not exactly Barclays Bank. Just another pathetic scammer.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

June 11, 2016

What are those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

1.An email offering the chance to win £650 Tesco vouchers – although the email claims to be Clubcard Account, it’s from tjoempamail which is a lead generation company so it’s a con.

2. An official notification that our online banking service is going to be deactivated if we do not verify our profile within 24 hours – of course there is a link to click on. The email claims to be from Barclays but is from test.com so obviously a scam.

3. An email offering to improve out energy costs. Just more rubbish from a lead generation company.

4. A message from Google offering to help get us started with advertising through Google. Only the email is actually from a domain name eloc-google.com which is not part of Google, just some scammer trying to con people.

5. A message from the Abu Dhabi Investment council. Impressive. They want to collaborate with us on new investments. It’s a lengthy email setting out how they operate and doesn’t promise sky high returns. Of course it’s just another pathetic scam, although it is written better than most.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

May 9, 2016

The Miss Ayesha Gadaffi Scam

This email shows the level of stupidity of many scammers.

It reads

“I am Miss. Ayesha Gaddafi, one of the daughters of the embattled president of Libya, I am currently residing in one of the African Countries, unfortunately as a refugee. At the meantime, my family is the target of Western nations led by NATO who wants to destroy my father at all costs. Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are their targets to freeze.

I have been commissioned to contact an interested foreign investor/partner who will be able to take absolute control of part of the vast cash available (£35 million) for a possible investment in your country.

Therefore if you can maintain the high level of secrecy required in this project, kindly respond with the following information for details of

Your full names and address
Your private telephone and fax numbers
Your private email address
Age and profession

Best Regard,

Miss.Ayesha Gaddafi”

It’s nearly 4 years since Colonel Gadaffi died but still some moron thinks he should send out this old scam email. This is both ridiculous and pathetic.