Fabrizio sent us an email containing a purchase order. Sounds good but it’s scam of course. The email comes from an Argentine address and the attached file claiming to be a purchase order is in fact an iso file. No genuine customer would use such a format – it’s used by scammers trying to get their malware through anti malware scanners. We wont be opening that file.
Selfridges are interested in buying from the radio station. At least, that’s what the email says. But the message is actually from selfridge-store.uk which is not the famous Selfridges store but just a scammer, despite links at the bottom of the email being to the genuine Selfridges website. No thanks scammer.
Some scammers make their emails look as if from your own organisation – to attempt to bypass the spam filters. This one claims to be from [email protected] but that’s fake as there is no such email address. The message says the sender has tried to contact us and is demanding payment of an outstanding invoice. Nope. Just the usual rubbish from an evil thieving scammer.
Most scam messages are quite short but some of the 419 type i.e. advance fee scam go into pages and pages of detailed story about how there happens to be a huge treasure waiting to be collected. This latest one is supposedly from the South African Settlement Committee and after multiple pages gets to the point of there being $67 million that the sender and I can share if I just send in the forms he will provide to me. And he guarantees it is perfectly safe and legal. Although he is a senior official I have to reply to a Gmail personal address. These scams work on the idea that some people are so greedy as to dismiss the obvious idea that it’s all fake and instead get involved. Sadly, they lose out and the scammer always wins.
“Greetings Winner”. Apparently, I have won $3.5 million in the Coca-Cola lottery draw. There’s even a note at the bottom of the scammer’s email explaining that I have won without even entering the draw as the organisers scoured websites to pick at random the email addresses to enter the lottery. Yeah! Right!.
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