Author: Olly

I dont know what is happening recently, but the last few scams that have been brought to my attention have been SMS scams, not the usual email scams. And the last two have been sent to me! This PayPal Scam is 100% going to catch some folk out. I’m quite impressed by the fact they managed […]

It seems the scammers are turning to SMS scams, now that emails scams are not fooling anyone any more. We had the Maxwell Fund scam moving towards using SMS messages to snag people, and now there is this. Amazingly, I actually received this SMS message myself today – normally I get sent them as these […]

I dont think ive ever had to do a 2nd follow-up on a blog post before! My previous Maxwell Fund Scam posts (#1 #2) have grabbed the attention of many people around the world who have also received a message, apparently from the Richard and Angela Maxwell Lottery Fund. Well it seems they are adopting a […]

Last year, I blogged about a scammer that tried to do us over at Work. It was a common scam style whereby the scammer tries to get you to take an overpayment for some services – and then send part of the payment to a 3rd party. The scam comes in the form of the […]