Had a funny email from some n00b scam merchant; From: FedEx Ground <alvin.bowers@em021.cside.jp> Date: 27 February 2015 at 15:46 Subject: Unable to deliver your item, #000552451 To: my@email.address Dear Customer, Your parcel has arrived at February 26. Courier was unable to deliver the parcel to you. Delivery Label is attached to this email. Yours sincerely, Alvin […]
Category: Scams
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 […]
–> 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 […]