An email from Allen Yan arrives from a Korean email address but he claims to be working in a Chinese company in Fuijan, China. So, he must be a very confused person i.e. a scammer at a Chinese company would never use a Korean email address.  The message asks us to quote best prices for his order and I should open the attached invoice to see the items. This scammer seems as dumb as dog muck as wants a quote against an order but the attachment is labelled as an invoice. However, the attached file is actually a web page (invoice.html) so no-one with any sense would open it. 

The EU Business Register scam is back in abundance as large numbers of these scam messages are sent out. It’s a simple scam – offering you the chance to update your business entry in the EU business register free of charge. But, the scam is in the small print which says that by returning the form with your details you are agreeing to a 3 year contract at 995 Euros per year and thereafter to automatic renewals of the contract at the same price. It is quite evil and will not stand up in court, but they threaten people who don’t pay and presumably some give in.

Another email message about an email account that was made up by scammers. They send these stupid messages claiming the mailbox is full and we are supposed  to click to update the account. But the email address they are sending to is fake so it’s not a real problem. Simply yet more phishing emails.

At the radio station, we get a lot of the fake invoice scam emails. Typically these claim we owe some hundreds of dollars and need to open the attachment for details or to click the link to see the invoice. This latest one from ‘Tabitha’ claims we owe $69,760 – certainly the highest amount claimed by a scammer this year. Perhaps she is greedy or stupid or believes that higher amounts are more likely to be paid. Whatever her reason she wont get anything from us.

Louise Stewart keeps emailing to say we owe various amounts – usually about $200 even though her business address on the email is in Sussex. She wants us to open the attached ‘invoice’ which no doubt is loaded with malware. Pathetic scammer.

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