Another of the very common email phishing messages arrived. Claiming to be from an address at the radio station, warning us that the mailbox quota has been exceeded for that email address, so it is unable to send any further messages. It is obviously a rubbish message from a scammer, plus the scammer doesn’t know we set that email address on the website to attract morons and it does just that. No one legitimate would pick that email address. The link to click is to a fake login box looking to steal our login and password. Never click on the links in such messages.
An email from Sgt Lauren Nowak tells me she is in the US army stationed in Afghanistan and wants to discuss a business proposition with me concerning $28.5 million which she can share with me. It is hard to imagine anyone could seriously believe this kind of message and reply to it, but someone must do or the scammers would find a better approach. Pathetic.
Many people use the WETRANSFER service for sending large files to people that email would struggle with or reject. So, it is common to get Wetransfer messages saying something is ready to download. But it pays to be vigilant as scammers often send out messages that look like they are from Wetransfer but contain malware files. No thanks.
An evil blackmailer sent a series of messages trying to force the radio station to pay a ransom or have personal information released on the Internet. Ninety nine percent of these type of messages are fake – just scammers chancing it. This one was dumb enough to pick an email address he claims was used to hack the radio station systems but it’s a fake email address invented by a spammer selling spam email addresses. All fake and all lies.
Some scammers like to target businesses and try to get them interested in more sales. This latest one is from Williams Opuki and says he is looking for suppliers of hand sanitiser, gowns, vitamins and anything else that government agencies buy to fight Covid. He wants to buy such products from us in large quantities. Even the small number of companies that actually sell this kind of product would have to be very dumb not to recognise this simple scam. No reputable business would send out mass mailings to random email addresses .
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