There are lots of Coronavirus scams around and this latest one is very simple. “Sir / Madam, We are delighted to inform you have been selected to receive a huge amount of money in the Covid 19 Relief Fund Promo. “. They don’t know who we are or what we do yet apparently we have been selected to receive loads of money from a fund we didn’t apply to. It’s a simple phishing scam after our personal details.
There are endless PayPal scams and this latest one flooding email boxes is titled “Your account has been suspended”. It’s a professional looking email message and continues “ . . .” All lies of course – the message is sent to dear Customer which PayPal would not put.
An email from Wells Fargo bank based in San Francisco tells me I have two days to update my account information or it will be frozen. Good job I don’t actually have an account at Wells Fargo but then the message is from a scammer.
Jonny Tran, Director of Sales at the Thanet Group asks me to confirm his new order number 2290812 is available and a copy is attached. Standard scam email from someone we’ve never heard of , who has never placed an order and the attached file is gzipped which scammers do to try to avoid malware detection. Deleted.
A message from a confused scammer is titled “5,000 year old mineral regrows hair in just 3 weeks”. But the message is actually a diabetes scam instead of hair regrowth. Maybe these scammers send out so out so many messages they lose track of the various lies. This one claims just one teaspoon of a magic mix will make your pancreas control insulin levels instantly so is an instant fix for diabetes. Sad, pathetic lies.
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