The latest 419 scam is titled “Inheritance Discuss” and is from goonhooh65. He claims to be Mr Wilson Victor and the boss of a bank in Abidjan and his problem is that he has to transfer $160 million to an overseas account and needs your help. Of course, you will receive a big share of the money for helping. The message starts with ‘II wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail’ but the only people who need to use such language are scammers. The end of the message is the funniest part as it is fake Latin ‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet’ etc. Many people will recognise this as the text used in computer software to indicate some text should replace it. This scammer forgot to read his own rubbish before sending it out.
Brendan Wardill offers a list of web sites where you can advertise without charge and get huge volumes of traffic to your site. Obviously lies. There are websites where you can advertise without charge but they make use of your website links, insist on reciprocal links and don’t give your site any worthwhile traffic – only robot generated fake usage. The only links that are worthwhile are from websites relevant to your website’s content.
Notify @ringscentral.com tells me there is a new audio note from a contact in my address book and I just have to click the link to listen to the message. Never heard of ringscentral.com so is bond to be a con, plus they obviously don’t have access to my contact list, or the name of the sender would be showing. A simple scam. Never click on links in unsolicited emails.
An email in German but also translated into English – seems to be a mark of a lazy scammer who cannot be bothered targeting her scam emails by country. This one claims to be from Lerynn West who has a donation of 1.93 million Euros for me as she won 349.3 million Euros on the Powerball lottery. A straightforward 419 scam offering a fortune, but I would have to make a series of small payments to get it and of course the millions only exist in the mind of the scammer. This scammer is so dumb that she sent this email and one a few minutes later with almost identical words and figures but supposedly from a different name.
Some scammers take a minimalist approach. An email from wyanhtun says “Dear Sir, Please see attached document and action Thanks.” It has an Excel file attached but opening that would be a very bad idea as all Office documents can contain macros i.e. computer code.
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