There are endless scam emails offering magic remedies to achieve weight loss with no effort. ‘Red |Wine and Fat Loss’ is the title of another one. Supposedly you add a supplement to your glass of wine each evening and your metabolism speeds up resulting in huge weight loss and no hunger or cravings. Obviously complete rubbish.

Some scammers are very professional but many are just total idiots. The email is titled ‘Request from the website’ so it is pretending to be from the radio station website. The email senders address is dorris @ [the radio station] so someone has gone to the trouble of spoofing the sender address. The message is trying to sell swim shorts that change colour when wet, but the scammer has forgotten to add a link to click and replying to the email would simply send a message to a non-existent email address at the radio station. She’s not going to get rich on this scam unless she realises her mistake.

Calvin Harris tells me that “We would like to hire your professional experience and want to inform you that we urgently interested in working with you on a temporary (contract) basis. Get back to us for details on compensation”. He has no idea who I am so is obviously scammer just trying to find out if the email address is active.

An email from Candace Petterfill says she’s interested in a job and I just have to click a link to read her c.v. No thanks – is likely to be a link to a malware site. The message specifies a password for the c.v. which is so you cannot scan the document for malware without opening it first, using the password. Her message also contains multiple 16 digit numbers for which there is no obvious reason – too long to be phone numbers. A dangerous email, to be ignored.

Occasionally at the radio station we get emails from people wanting us to add links to their site from ours,  and in return get a reciprocal link. These are only a good idea if the business you’re going to link to is safe and reputable and is some way complementary to your own business. Adding random links to unrelated businesses is a bad practice and can result in a lower place on search engine results.

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