An email arrives looking as if from Santander bank. The correct logos and graphics, security information, well written and claiming to be from The Santander Online Banking Help Team to warn us that they suspect an unauthorised transaction on our account. But the email sender’s address is tts-concreterepairs.com which really gives the message away as a scam, plus, we don’t have an account at Santander.

Binti Danish Rayyan sent an email to the radio station titled ‘Greetings from Malayasia’. Sounds friendly but is just a scam as the email offers us to the opportunity to submit bids for supply to the government of Malaysia for 2021/22.  The government would be to be very hard up to send out mass emails to unknown companies for unknown products and from an Outlook address. We won’t be submitting any bids.

Another wave of fake emails claiming to be from IONOS and needing me to confirm my email address or to reactivate my account. No thanks – the message is from active10_21518098111@ bellianti.net which is not IONOS.

PayPal users are a big target for scammers – sending out endless emails claiming that your PayPal account is blocked or that there is suspicious activity on your account or something similar. The latest one has the title ‘Paypal L*m**ited’. The reason for the asterisks is to try to bypass the email providers blocking such messages and home users filtering out such rubbish. But is still rubbish of course and should be deleted.  

A message arrives claiming to be from Yahoo and using their logo etc. but is an obvious fake. It says that a new phone number has been added to my account and if I didn’t do this then I should click the link to logon and correct it. But the link goes to gvbzc1wessddxx.nsmteytravv.senka.jp which is an obvious scam website as no-one but a scammer would want such an obscure web site address. 

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