This is an old take on a common scam whereby a scammer emails a random person claiming to be in a position of authority – normally within a bank or financial institute – and they usually claim to have access to a large amount of money that they either need to get rid of, or that […]
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–> Meet Simon Macbeth 🙂 <– Today’s subject is a chap called Simon Macbeth and I felt compelled to write this blog post after seeing a link circulating on Facebook at the weekend. Simon Macbeth lives in the Leeds area, rents a few rooms in his house and runs a few other little businesses – mainly […]
Dave spotted this in our spam box from anagalski@iimcb.gov.pl with a reply to address as owenhookson09@gmail.com – as if “the CEO of Google” would have an email address like that! “You have Been Selected as a Winner for Using Google Services. Find attached E-mail with more details. Congratulations, Sincerely. Mr. Owen Hookson. CEO GOOGLE UK.” And its […]
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2014 Yahoo! Email Lottery SCAM
Wow. I find the constant “evolving” methods used by scammers to extract money out people a continued source of major LOLs. The most recent Style of 419/email scam i’ve encountered is this beauty, from mr.swart.johan@outlook.com (nice to see Microsoft are still providing these knobheads with email addresses to use, first Hotmail and now Outlook.com – when […]