Tag: time-wasters

December 31, 2016

So Many Emails and Calls Are Just a Waste of Time

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

An email in Italian which could have been interesting – but it’s just another typical scam message looking to confirm contact details.

A revolutionary hearing loss treatment guaranteed to restore hearing in less than 17 days without surgery. Yeah! Right! Fix any hearing problem regardless of the cause. A pathetic scam playing on people’s hopes.

North Face Goose Jackets 70% off. But the email is from @simsimasai10.top – a scammer.

Invoice factoring available for any purpose. Not really – just a Marketing company looking for leads to sell.

An email to the radio station giving a TV license refund. Except we don’t have a TV licence at the radio station.

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December 24, 2016

More Time-Wasters

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

An email showing lots of photos of heavy machinery for working in forests and on farms. What is it about our URL (www.brooklandsradio.co.uk) that would make anyone think we’re a farm or a forestry operation?

Please find attached to this email a facsimile transmission we have just received on your behalf – how could someone receive a facsimile on our behalf? It’s just a virus laden attachment.

An invoice from the National Schoolwear centre for £1,521.74 – surely only 1 in a million people could even for a moment think this applies to them?

An offer of a loan for anything we want- just a Marketing company looking for leads to sell.

An email from Apple to tell us they are celebrating Apple’s birthday by giving away prizes and we won one- Yippee! Sadly, it’s another pathetic scam of course.

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December 17, 2016

Time-Wasters

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

An advert asking me to click a link to read a magazine article about how to remove wrinkles and eye-bags in 90 seconds. But the link is actually to cenfun.stream which is not the magazine. It’s a scam.

World Bank Group want to give me $17.5 million as approved by the White House. They just need a load of confidential information from me so they can process the payment. Yeah! Right!

I’ve won a £750 voucher from Argos. Yippee! Hang on a minute, the email isn’t from Argos stores – it’s from Argostracks.com which is nothing to do with Argos. It’s fake.

A company offers to cut my printing and copying bills. But it’s just a Marketing company looking for leads to sell.

A Marketing company wants to sell us banner advertising on top websites at 25% discount. Banner advertising may pay for websites but there’s just too much of it. No way.

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December 8, 2016

Time-Wasters Update

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

An offer of new discount shopping centre furniture – we’re a radio station, not a shopping centre.

An email titled “Win a Magnificent Delivered to Your Door” – a magnificent what? Looks like a Russian website selling medication.

A company called Hireright wants to provide background checks on new employees for us. We’re not recruiting spies currently so no thanks.

A Major James Modlin in the US Army in Iraq wants us to help him move $38 million found in barrels and it belonged to ISIS. I get 30% for helping. I think I’ll turn this one down.

A phone call. “Hello. Can I speak with the person who deals with your company’s private medical insurance?”. “No. We’re a volunteer organisation – no medical insurance.”. “Then how about you? I can do you a better deal than your current insurer”. “GET LOST!”

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December 3, 2016

Time-Wasters Update

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

A lawyer in Spain (but with a Brazilian email address) wants to start a business with me. A pathetic scam.

A Marketing company pretending to be a supplier of doors and windows but with the email address of data-mailspecific.online – they are just looking for leads to sell.

Great news – I’ve won a $1,000 voucher to spend in the supermarket of my choice. But this is from a company called enrollview.com so it’s just a Marketing company trying to get people to fil in surveys. They cannot possible have a voucher good at any supermarket and of course you can’t use dollars in a UK shop.

A financial services company in Bahrain want to offer me a loan or a grant or to be a broker giving loans and grants to other businesses. Pathetic rubbish.

A Chinese company warns me that our name Brooklands Radio is in danger as another company is trying to register that name for a lot of Internet addresses but we can have first choice on those names if we act quickly. I don’t think so. Having lots of Internet addresses serves no purposes for us and even if someone else did register say brooklandasradio.cn So what !

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November 26, 2016

Time-Wasters on email and phone

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

A warning message from Microsoft about an unusual sign-in to my account. But it’s to an email address forwarder that I use that cannot be logged into.

A request from a senior investment consultant in a South African Bank, to tell me I am the only living descendant of a very rich man with an investment portfolio. Strange then that he uses a free email account. He’s looking for private information to sell to other scammers.

Good News! Elon Musk (famous inventor and CEO of Tesla Motors) has invented a new way to cut everyone’s energy bills in half suposedly. Elon Musk is a brilliant guy and has invented some methods for improving battery life but that’s all he claims.

I’m asked to compare a nationwide network of accountants to find the one best suited for my needs. I don’t need another accountant and the email sender is sendwide.trade i.e. a Marketing company looking for leads to sell.

A message telling me that my account and email have been blocked. But the email is from saleshf @helnan.com who I’ve never heard of and the link they want me to click says ‘Verify Your Account’ but is to ecoquarantine.com.au. It’s just the usual dumb phishing scam.

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