Tag: stupid scam

September 8, 2019

Stupidest Scam of the Week Reverse High Blood Sugar

There are many scammers who use people’s fear of diabetes to get them to agree to stupid offers.

The email title is “The two worst lies that your doctor tells”.

This is a standard scammer’s appeal to the idea of conspiracies, which seems to work best in the USA.

Then “This man’s blood sugar went from 1,200 to 120 in a matter of weeks”.

There are no units listed with the numbers, so the numbers are meaningless and it’s obvious that a blood sugar that drops by 90% is wrong. The numbers appear to be just random numbers that the scammer thinks look good.

Next the scammer claims this method will cure diabetes entirely in a short time and doesn’t require any drugs or even diet improvements.

Can you imagine someone living on a high fat high sugar diet but with perfect health – pass the mars bars in batter and the deep-fried pizza to go with the buckets of ice cream and donuts.

No thanks.

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January 27, 2019

Stupidest Scam of the Week – Super Reds

A message from “Get Your Energy Back”, but the email address is actually solutionto.bid and the ‘.bid’ suffix is supposed to be used by auction websites but this is clearly a sales pitch about some magic ingredient.

The subject is “STOP Drinking Water (Here’s Why)”.

This is a classic scammer and marketing moron tactic of putting a ridiculous headline to get idiots to click on it. On websites these are called ‘clickbait’.

The actual message is almost entirely in pictures with text on them – another classic scammer trick to try to evade anti-spam filters by the email providers.

“Get Vibrant Energy, Lasting Libido and Laser Focus With the Brand New American Super Reds”.

Stopping drinking water would obviously be very harmful to your health unless you lived on such as water melon that has a very high percentage of water in it.

And there is nothing wrong with drinking water – just a scammer’s game to get your attention.

It makes no difference what American Super Reads are – assuming they exist. Worthwhile products are never sold by means of scammer tactics, clickbait and lies.

Ignore such stupid headlines and email titles.

If you want real health advice – seek a professional not a moron.

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December 16, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Impossible Loans

Lots of scam messages offer loans of various kinds as an enticement.

The more intelligent ones offer loans tied to circumstances and ability to repay etc. so as to make them more believable.

But there are other scammers who take the opposite view and offer loans for anything, with no collateral and at virtually zero interest. These are very obviously scams but still some people fall for them in their desperation to get an affordable loan.

A latest set of such scam messages appear to come from Poland (i.e. the domain suffix is .pl)

The title is something like “Your Bank Says No”.

Then the message goes on about how banks regularly turn people away or charge too much.

The link you are invited to click on (labelled as preliminary verification for a loan) is of course to a phishing site. The whole point of the email is to get your personal details so they can used to hack your accounts and/or sold to other scammers.

The email sender is tktelekom.pl which is a non-existent company and obviously a Telecomms name not a bank.

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September 2, 2018

Stupidest Scam of the Week – High IQ

The message title is “Bring Your IQ to 140 in just minutes – Shark Tank Exclusive”

It’s clearly impossible to improve your IQ significantly in a short period and pretty much impossible altogether. People can improve to a slight degree their score on IQ tests by practising to get used to the style of questions but the tests are designed so that your score will stay fairly stable through retests and throughout life.

There are memory enhancers available but that’s not the same as an IQ improvement.

The email is from valuta @plugby.date and ‘.date’ domains are intended for dating sites not for dumb adverts for non-existent brain enhancers.

The message continues “Do this simple trick right before going to bed tonight and you’ll see the insane results for yourself”,

Maybe people trying the trick do go insane or more likely to just get angry at falling for such a stupid scam.

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April 8, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – New Systems

Lots of scam emails make promises you shouldn’t believe but occasionally there are some that promise little and rely on curiosity to get you to click on the provided link.

An email from Sue Washington (calces @tenaculum.date) titled “So, did you like it or no”

Tenaculum.date should be a dating agency but clearly isn’t. Use of the wrong domain name suffix normally often indicates a scammer. This is especially true when the domain name suffix is .date, .club or one of the many that anybody can buy (some domain names such as .gov in America are restricted as to who can have one)

The email starts with

“Hey, I hate time sensitive stuff but this is something I had to get to you sooner than later”

Then a link labelled “Please check this new online system out”

No explanation of what the system is or even a name so why would anybody with any sense click on such a link? I have no idea.

There’s even an unsubscribe button, which of course doesn’t unsubscribe you – it’s just a copy of the link above in the email they want you to click.

I don’t know if this sort of empty scam email works but the scammers do persist with these.

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April 1, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Manifestation

The email is titled “The Lazy Person’s Way to Manifestation” and the email is from absolblum.club.

It’s clearly going to be a scam – with that stupid title and an inappropriate domain name (.club) it couldn’t be anything else.

The email starts off in a friendly manner giving the back story to the drivel she’s selling.

“When I first heard the big secret to effortlessly manifest the life of your dreams I was dumbfounded.

It even seems counterintuitive because it involves doing almost NOTHING”.

It goes on about how you can shift into a natural state of abundance and have anything you wish such as money, freedom, relationships and so on.

The final line of the email is meant to be the clincher.

“It’s now possible to achieve in mere minutes what used to take months of training”.

So, let’s say a hundred people all do this and each wishes to win the lottery jackpot. One hundred winners in one week means they won’t get much each. What a shame. But then I guess all you need to do is use this method to manifest the lottery jackpot as being a hundred trillion dollars so everyone can get a big share.

Perhaps there’s a slight flaw in this reasoning and in anyone’s head who thinks they should click the link and buy the rubbish being offered.

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