This scam is a hybrid version of some old free mobile phone scams that used to circulate, and the regular 419 nigerian lottery scams. The email itself was pretty much empty; It was from user90911270@centurylink.net and the senders name is set to User90911271. If i hit reply it tries to email the centurylink.net email. The attachment itself is […]
Author: Olly
I am Olly.
My friend Chris sends me scams every now and then, I think like myself he has had his email address a long time so gets things on a daily basis. He sent the Outstanding Invoice Scam a few weeks ago, and sent this the other day as he felt it was a pretty clever approach […]
Another Word document attachment virus, but this one with a different approach from the recent invoice/financially orientated ones. It looks very much like a fairly normal email, the email address even matches the persons name; ThaddeusMcconnell@businessemail.co.uk Although its obviously from a free email provider so that wouldn’t be too hard to set up. The content […]
These seem to be flooding in recently, not sure how or why i’ve started to get so many – maybe some of my scam-baiting has got me on some “To scam” lists 🙂 It’s also worrying that many of them are not being blocked by Google and they are actually ending up in my Gmail inbox. […]