Todd Bowman claims to be the interim General manager at Harrisburg airport in Pennsylvania. He has an abandoned package weighing 110Kg stuffed with money and wants to share it with me. He will pay the United States Non Inspection Charges of $3,700 so I can claim the money and I get to keep 70%. Of course he doesn’t know my name and doesn’t really exist – just a scammer with little imagination trying to catch gullible people.

The lazy scammer’s message just says ‘Earn $10K in as little as 5 days”. There are ways to earn money quickly but they usually need either a lot of capital to invest or are criminal. No thanks.

Half a dozen emails arrived at the radio station with exactly the same contents – just sent to a different made-up email address. “RE: Dispatched PO Material on 06042022. Please note that we dispatched your order from our factory. Herewith is the final invoice packing list”. This scammer doesn’t seem to know the difference between a packing list and an invoice and of course doesn’t know the name of anyone at the radio station as no-one placed an order. The attached file tries to look like a PDF file but is in fact a BZ2 compressed file. Scammers do this to try to get around malware scammers – hoping they cannot read the compressed file. They are wrong.

A message from J. Kirinec tells me that he was looking for an old friend who resides in my country – of course he doesn’t know my name or which country I live in. He says he in charge of ‘medic’ and wants to hear from me if “you are so pleased with you”. Like many scam message it makes no sense and is intended to get a reply from a confused person asking for more information. Just a way for scammers to find the sort of people they want to scam. 

Oh dear – an urgent message from the NatWest fraud team arrives – well actually a dozen of them, to different email addresses at the radio station. They all same the same thing – that an unknown computer has tried to access my account and I now must verify the account within 24 hours or it will be cancelled for security reasons. The Verify link actually goes to a website at broad-angry-single.glitch.me which is obviously not NatWest plus I don’t have a NatWest account.

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