Author: Olly

  • Simon Macbeth Scammer – Followup

    –> Meet Simon Macbeth 🙂 <–

    Last week I noticed I’d started getting comments on my original Simon Macbeth post, so I Googled his name to see if I was ranking and it was on Page 1. Then, I noticed the original website that exposed him as a dirty scammer was gone;

    simon_macbeth

    Surely he’s not had Google remove the website?

    I felt the need to email the website creator and ask if Simon Macbeth had in fact been a douche and had the website removed from Google or something?

    In actual fact, the website creator was arrested on suspicion of harassment because of the content on the website.  He accepted a caution as he didn’t want to go to court & pay for a defence, he accepted it on that basis alone and through no admission of guilt or wrong doing. The police were very reasonable with him, I think they could see how ridiculous the situation actually was.

    A few days later he received an email from Simon Macbeth to his work despite being under strict orders not to speak to him;

    Hello Daniel

    Hope you’re well after an eventful weekend.

    Thinks he’s funny doesnt he. His attempt at spelling next is funnier 😉

    I’m going to give you an opportunity to move on from your unhealthy obsession with me.

    Some time ago you asked what other 2 Court cases I intent to issue against you. They are for damaged coursed by your harassment and damages coursed by the defamation.

    *Caused. Have you turned your spelling/grammar checkers off you moron?

    It is my intention to seek £43,000. You kindly admitted the harassment to the Police and the defamation will not be easy to prove.

    I think there is enough online proof proving Simon Macbeth is a thieving dirty scammer so as to justify why the site author did what they did. It wasnt unprovoked and none of it was untrue. The truth hurts, Simon. Maybe stop being a massive dick? That may discourage people from wanting to share their stories about you?

    The existing court case I have against you for around £2700 will go in my favour, despite your lame attempt of a defence and nonsensical counter claim.

    Sounding confident here like he knows what decision the Judge is going to make.

    Don’t count your chickens, Simon 😉

    In full and final settlement of all 3 cases I will accept £12,500. This is in full and final settlement of any and all cases relating to pass events. You have 7 days to accept my offer or I will take further action against you.

    Did you type that with your feet, Simon? My blog is far from perfectly spell checked and grammatically correct but i can spell “Past” for gods sake hahah 🙂

    Simon M. Macbeth

    The middle  M stands for Marzipan. His parents were very cruel.

    Needless to say, the original website author ignored this unofficial pointless collection of words and numbers and got on with his life, when two weeks later this arrived from one of Simon Macbeths current shagpieces’ email accounts, and had been sent to the authors main works email account;

    RE: XXXX XX

    Last month Mr XXX received a Police Caution for Harassment. Mr XXX is subject to the provisions in the SRA Handbook.

    Think you need to get some help from someone that knows how to read before making such bold statements, Simon! 😉

    The SRA Code of Conduct applies to managers, owners and employees of the firms that the SRA regulates and therefore would apply to Mr XXX. Chapter 10 of the code requires “you” to “report to the SRA promptly, serious misconduct by any person or firm authorised by the SRA, or any employee , manager or owner of any such firm”. I consider that such a Police Caution for Harassment fits the criteria of “serious misconduct” and therefore the matter must be reported.

    You dont employ people do you, Simon? Lets look at the definition of “Serious Misconduct”;

    “Serious misconduct is behaviour, on the part of an employee, which is so bad that it destroys the employer/employee relationship, and merits instant dismissal without notice or pay in lieu of notice.”

    Still think that Mr XXX’s actions can be considered to be “Serious Misconduct”? Nah, didn’t think so.

    In addition it is my opinion that it is wholly inappropriate for Mr XXX to remain employed by a legal firm.

    Haha, and they should give a shit about your opinion because…..?

    The circumstances of the Harassment are: Mr XXX entered into a contractual relationship with a 3rd party. When this relationship broke down Mr XXX then took it upon himself to blackmail the 3rd party.

    Err, what? Blackmail? So how come Mr XXX hasn’t been arrested for attempted blackmail and given 14 years in prison? What is it about these scammers and the “Blackmail” word? They can give it all day long can’t they, but as soon as someone stands up and fights back they go all defensive.

    Man up, losers!

    Mr XXX told the 3rd party that he would send defamatory statements to others if the 3rd party did not cease their rights under said contract.

    Hahahahahaha. Im sure that was more of a throwaway comment after you were totally unreasonable about something that could have been very easily resolved. In this world of red tape and cover-ups its nice to have an outlet like the internet where strong minded people like me and Mr XXX can speak our minds.

    Mr XXX went on to post online hundreds of defamatory statements about the 3rd party causing the 3rd party to be seriously harassed.

    Awww babas. I picture pitchforks and torches and an angry mob outside his house. If only haha.

    Also he made one website with a few pages – the internet did the rest. Mr XXX is not responsible for the comments from the 1000’s of unhappy customers.

    Statements that included the 3rd party was a paedophile, child rapist, fraudster as well as a statement that included the 3rd party should be physically harmed.

    Again, you can’t hold a website owner accountable for the comments posted by a 3rd party.

    The truth hurts, Simon.

    These statements where seen by over 100,000 people (according to Mr XXX himself)

    *were. Maybe stop being a wanker and people will stop slagging you off online?

    My complaint is twofold

    Your complaint is also complete bullshit.

    1) That you have not reported this matter to the SRA
    2) That you still employ Mr XXX.

    Around the same time Mr XXX’s workplace got the above email, their company website also started being DDOS attacked to the extent it got taken offline for a while. Some websites are not set up with the security required to defend off such attacks so it can cause lots of problems. Im waiting to hear back from their IT department about what they find in the server logs. Should be interesting!

    So to summarise, Simon Macbeth has tried to get this guy arrested for simply speaking the truth & making a website which attracted 1000’s of other comments from people who’d also been ripped off or scammed by him. He then tried to have him SACKED from his job and shut the company website down that Mr XXX works for.

    Ironic really – he’s claiming this guy owes him £12,500 in damages and then tries to get him sacked from his job? You’ve got a sure-fire rock-solid plan there, Simon!

    And I think that when you look at the situation as a whole, there is more evidence to suggest that Simon Macbeth himself has been a dirty little sneaky bastard and tried more under-hand tactics against Mr XXX than Mr XXX ever did to him. Im sure a court of law would agree too, especailly after the two emails I featured here and what followed them in the form of DDoS attacks.

    Please feel free to post your horror stories about Simon Macbeth in the comments below as he wont get me shut down – or you can visit the original post and add in your stories there.

     

    –> Meet Simon Macbeth 🙂 <–

  • Nokia & Microsoft WINNER – Nokia X2 Dual SIM Windows phone and cash $$ SCAM

    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;

    From User90911271 - user90911270@centurylink.net

    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 called “Confirmation Letter zxaa665.pdf” and contains this;

    Dear Email User  This email is to inform you that your email address has just won you $500,000.00 and a Nokia X2 Dual SIM Windows phone for the month of April 2015 lottery promotion, which is organized by MICROSOFT OUTLOOK WINDOWS & NOKIA. MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the email addresses of the people who are active online; among the people who subscribed also to Aol, Gmail and yahoo, we only select five people every year as our winners through an electronic balloting system without the winner applying. We congratulate you for being one of the selected winners.  CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION.  Contact Email: GGML11@OUTLOOK.COM  1. FULL NAME:  2. ADDRESS: 3. OCCUPATION:  4. SEX:  5. AGE: 6. DIRECT PHONE NO:  7. STATE:  8. COUNTRY:  Thank you and accept my hearty congratulation once again!

    Ha.

    Ok, so firstly its obviously a scam – I mean, come on??

    Secondly, there is no way on earth Microsoft Outlook, Windows (another MS product, not sure why they would endorse something separately?) and Nokia would club together and run a raffle!

    It later mentions Aol, Gmail and Yahoo! – just in case you didn’t use one of the products mentioned earlier, they’ve surely snagged your interest now, right?

    Then just in case you thought it might be a scam as you never signed up for no damn lottery – they drop a link in saying how its all electronic and automated and the winner is picked without anyone applying.

    Then, of course, comes the usual “please send your details” part at the bottom, however there is  no mention of anything financial in this email or attachment. Many of the recent scams have been like a “double opt in” style, where the first one is to gain interest and then in their reply to you they will drop the clanger.

    I’ve emailed back asking for my prize, so hopefully they get back to me soon and I can add in part 2 of this humorous email scam 🙂

    Baiting the scammers!

    PS this wasnt caught in Gmail spam filters, so watch out as who knows what else will slip through!

  • Indebted for driving on toll road #000729155 – SCAM – HOAX

    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 that could trick a fair few people if they were new to the web and email.

    From: "E-ZPass Manager" <joel.crabtree@vir010101.sh.it.net> Date: 13 Apr 2015 04:58 Subject:  Indebted for driving on toll road #000729155 To: <XXX@btinternet.com> Cc:   Dear X,  You have not paid for driving on a toll road. Please, do not forget to service your debt.  The invoice is attached to this email.  Sincerely, Joel Crabtree, E-ZPass Support.

    So their approach this time is to claim the user has unpaid fines from driving on a toll road. Straight away this is a more believable approach than random unpaid invoices etc.

    The email itself is fairly poorly written, which would make me personally question its legitimacy, but then its written a lot better than some scams I see so it could fool someone!

    It was sent from a very obscure email address: joel.crabtree@vir010101.sh.it.net and although this email address corresponds to the name of the person that has apparently sent this, the domain name part is random, and should raise alarm bells straight away. My friend also confirmed the reply address was the same as the sender – sometimes they differ you see.

    And the attachment of the email is a zip file – word of warning, if you are not expecting the email and it has a ZIP file or DOC file attachment, it will 9.9 times out of 10 be a scam/virus/hoax and you should forward it to scams@0lly.uk and then delete it immediately.

    Stay safe peeps!

    Thanks for the submission, Chris!

    You can send in scams via our online form, or by forwarding them to scams@0lly.uk and i’ll rip them apart and publish info so anyone reading can learn and hopefully stay virus-free!

  • Thaddeus Mcconnell – My resume | SCAM – VIRUS | Clever!

    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 of the email is fairly normal too.

    Hi, My name is Thaddeus Mcconnell Please find my resume in the attachment.  Thank you, Thaddeus

    Gmail’s spam filters kicked in straight away with this one, I think because the file attachment is a zip file that it must have triggered the spam filters to scan it earlier than if it was just a Word document or something.

    Thaddeus Mcconnell - my resume.zip

    I did wonder if this was actually a genuine request and the chap just happened to have a virus himself and sent it unwittingly, but there is something about it that just makes me think its an intentional scam. I think its the “Business” email – it just sets alarm bells off for me.

    Anyway, real or not, Gmail did the work and marked this as a Virus.

    Delete and move on people.