Category: Scams

Ok, so this identity theft scam really made me chuckle. To fill you in, my business partner and I sit next to each other in the office, so this scam was busted at the first hurdle. It was a VERY …

I usually blog about online scams, but this is an offline scam you can fall in to SO easily, it’s actually quite scary!

Smart Parking Ltd

My friend was driving in a town centre and fancied some lunch. He saw …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

It makes a refreshing change to be blogging about a new subject, in this post I will be explaining how we had the mickey taken out of us by a bunch of scammers branding themselves up as Mechanify.

I will …

Well, if the issues regarding BES have taught me one thing, it’s to set my alarm bells nice and high especially when it comes to commercial energy!

This article is about an EON phone scam – please show this article …

Haha.

Got this beauty a while ago, just found it starred in my inbox.

From: Y gl <[email protected]> (reply-to address the same)

The email contains this golden transcript (was actually a JPG but thankfully the internet has free OCR software …

This one was a bit random, but I actually quite admire the approach they have taken as with a bit more refinement they would have the PERFECT scam email!

from: Lance – British Airways Limited <[email protected]>

Reply to address the …