These emails are a few from a surge I had a few weeks ago, they are some good old nigerian/kenyan 419 scams, but it was like a load of guys in the same shitty cyber cafe were all trying to scam me as maybe they thought I was a hot lead… As you’ll see from […]
Category: Scams
Why do people SCAM?
My blog subject of choice is scams, and more often than not – online scams. My friends know I have an interest in this and they often send potentials to me via email. A few of them have asked me “Why do people do this anyway? I mean, surely no one falls for it?”… Well i’m afraid to […]
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; Surely he’s not had […]
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 […]