My company work for a few different areas of business, one of which is the CBD/Hemp industry. Its amazing to be part of such an explosive industry.
Anyway, I was part of a new company formation last year (since sold shares) and during the inception of the business and formation of business plans we “harvested” many domain names for potential use on projects within this new business.
I am 100% focused on my core business now, and that means no deviation from the core plan. This means I have 20+ domain names for sale.
alienheadshop.co.uk
alienheadshop.uk
canazon.co.uk
canazon.uk
cannabissimo.co.uk
cannabissimo.uk
cannazon.co.uk
cannazon.uk
cbdaware.co.uk
cbdaware.uk
cbdflorist.co.uk
cbdflorist.uk
cbdstartups.co.uk
cbdstartups.uk
dankseeds.uk
fullcbd.uk
rawdirect.co.uk
rawdirect.uk
thebulldogdirect.co.uk
thebulldogdirect.uk
vapecbdpen.co.uk
vapecbdpen.uk
These are all for sale, individually or in bulk (ideally in one go) and if I can just get my initial investment/registration fees back I would be happy.
It pains me to let some of them go but it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to start a CBD/Hemp business now anyway – as I left the one we started earlier this year, and it wouldn’t be very professional of me to jump back into one.
Well, this was one of the most random scam/spammer experiences of my baiting life/career.
Email address used: supportteam@daramail.com
I got an official email from Amazon Prime (haha it wasnt official) thanking me for my recent payment of £79.99 for my prime membership. Hmm, I do have prime but pay it monthly.. I wasnt really puzzled – I knew it was a scam before I even opened it, let me explain;
Ok, so for starters a company as big as Amazon would not miss a space between Amazon and Prime in the title of an official email.
Also, the grammatical errors are immediate, and inexcusable. Greeting not Greetings. No pound sign, missing dates, its just all wrong. Also £79.99 is the annual payment, then it refers to monthly. I think this was maybe to panic the reader and make them do something. Anyway, the email itself was obviously fake – but it wanted me to call a phone number;
This puzzled me. As literally 99 out of 100 other similar scams want you to click a link and they harvest some kind of credit card info or personal info from you.
So, I called the number.
Ring ring…
Ring ring…
“Hello?”
I played along a bit;
“Hello, is this Amazon Prime?”
He replied
“Yes, this is amazon prime how can i help”
Me: “I got an email, I think I need a refund or something?”
Him: “Yes ok [inaudible]”
Then I dropped the bomb.
Me: “How do you sleep at night knowing you’re scamming people out of their hard earned money?”
I fully expected him to hang up, but he didnt!
I asked him why he did this, and he told me!
He explained that he also worked full time, and that COVID has caused so many issues in his country, he needed to earn money to he turned to this scam. He tried to say he was a nice guy and that he didnt take much money from people he was just trying to survive.
I explained that he wasnt not going to know if he caused issues for people and £79.99 is a lot of money to a lot of people!
I asked him if he had grandparents, he said yes and I asked him how he would feel if someone stole their last £80, he went quiet.
Then, his manner changed. He seems to be less confident and more humbled. I asked him to think long and hard about what he was doing, and he said he would stop doing it.
A scammer with a conscious!
Update – I started writing this on the 3rd of June – its now the 16th and the number now just rings out. I hope this means hes stopped the scam!
Update – He called me back! I didnt answer, but it means hes still at it.
Update – Had a call today from 01324 409 887 and an automated lady said similar to the above “your prime membership is expiring etc” and press 1 to speak to someone, I pressed 1, through to – what sounded like – the same guy.
01324 409 887
DO NOT PAY THIS GUY ANY MONEY! HE IS NOT AMAZON PRIME!
My past is littered with instances where I have been sued, or people have tried to sue me. So when I received this email about a Subpoena I opened it with hesitation in case it was something legitimate.
Once open, it was quite clearly not. haha.
Came from the following address – looks propa legit innit;
The link in the email links to a hosted Google document, and then it wants you to download a file;
The download link takes the user to a really dodgy URL;
This is really concerning as the use of Google docs to host this legitimises the scam, I have reached out to google to get them to remove the page.
These scams are starting to get more intelligent, and it seems some of the larger vendors (Amazon, Google,. etc) are seemingly letting things fall through the cracks which is, I guess, to be expected. Its still alarming and a worrying thing to be discovering especially as technology isn’t slowing down, I hope security and corporate responsibility/accountability can keep up!
Remember, if its too good to be true, its probably a scam.
I saw an image shared (ironically) on social media, that contained what was labelled as an “Unpopular opinion”. That opinion, was that Social Media has destroyed our generations chances of ever truly being happy.
Back in the days before we posted our every single move we make online, an individual’s world was what they could see before them. They occasionally found out about what other people were doing by speaking to them or overhearing a conversation but generally your world was what you could see, and choosing to be happy (as its a choice, dont forget) was an easier choice to make. Apart from unreachable celebrity lifestyles, the majority of the lives we could compare ours to were the ones of our close friends and family, and usually those people live within the same world as you do. Phrases like “Keeping up with the Joneses” have been around for over 100 years, and originally it meant trying to stay on par or ahead of your close neighbours in terms of how nice your house looked, how neat your garden was and how proud you were of your little – actual – empire. Now, thanks to the rise of materialism and consumerism, we now define someone’s success by the clothes they wear, the items they possess and how “Polished” they are as a human being.
Nows, due to how far-reaching each person’s “world” has become, there is a plethora of micro-celebs, internet “influencers” who paint unrealistic, unreachable pictures of their lies across dopamine-hit-inducing “social” networks, and whether they realise it or not – they use these false images to compare against their own lives which leads to nothing but disappointment and depression.
There is no denying the correlation between the rise in social media usage, and the rise in clinical depression and anxiety in young people. The rise of suicides, the rise of addiction treatment for social media usage… We have created all-consuming platforms that have taken control of our happiness and almost removed the choice from us. We are forced to feel like shit.
I have spoken to real people, who are fully addicted to instant messaging and social media and completely deny it. I have witnessed with my own eyes some people’s inability to hear a notification and ignore it, they are drawn to their device and are impulsed to check what it is and who its from – replying instantly despite the fact they were half way through a conversation with someone else at the time, for example. I’m no angel, ive done it before and now when it happens I find myself feeling guilty for wanting to look. I try not to, as I understand its an issue and I dont want to fall victim to it.
I am trying to be the best version of me, I am trying to “own” my life and my decisions and not let anything choose or decide for me. It’s hard, and it almost feels like by doing so, I am alienating myself from the rest of the world but I hope I am simply an early adopter of this mindset and I hope one day the world does an about turn and decides to not let AI and social media dictate their happiness.
Don’t let a temporary feeling or emotion dictate the rest of your life. There is a real world happening around you, dont view it through a 5″ touchscreen for the rest of your life.
