Peggy Chan’s email says she has a lucrative deal to share with me 50:50 but then I’ve never heard of Peggy Chan and her email address is actually wu872.kai@ so she doesn’t seem to know her own name. Just a pathetic scam looking for idiots to reply.

Yet another 419 scam email arrives. Claims to be from a Robert Justin (senior bank officer) but is from a personal Gmail address tuli.jake and he has $10,500,000 for me payable by the Republic of Uganda. I just need to send him (to a different personal email address) a lot of personal information – full name, contact details, birth date, occupation, address etc. and the money will be released.  Pathetic lies as usual.

Another health scam involves the scammer promising to tell you how to do a 5 second check that will identify if your thyroid gland is keeping you fat. Doctors do recommend a visual check on the thyroid gland which is in the neck but only a blood test checking hormone levels will tell you if your thyroid is working correctly. So, the supposed 5 second test is just fake.

The offer of a free Tesla series 3 car in a prize daw is back again this year. There is no such prize draw and the scammer still hasn’t learnt how to send out mail merges. The email says Hi {{firstname}} which is supposed to contain the recipients first name and it contains a list of supposed winners but that also contains entries such as {{FirstName}} {Surname}}. Scammers can get away with such dumb messages when they are looking for replies only from the dumbest people.

An email claiming to be from Nat West bank warns me there has been unusual activity on my account, so it has been temporarily suspended. I need to verify my account to remove the suspension and that must be done today or I forfeit the account. The email is from update5615222llpi0nmytza3421561 @notification.com so obviously from a scammer, plus he doesn’t know my name plus I don’t actually have any accounts at the Nat West.