The Alliance and Leicester write to warn me about suspicious emails phishing for card numbers and passwords. What do you suppose is the scammers solution to this problem. Yes, you’ve guessed it. Send me an email asking for my username and password. Now how does that work, I wonder??? I hope you realise this is a […]
Mr Dean tells me he can guarantee that I will win on the Euro Lottery. All I have to do is register online and he will send me 75% of £4.528m. You’d think with all these offers of vast amounts of money I’ve been receiving lately that I would be sitting on a private beach […]
This is a reply to an accommodation request made by Mr Great – part of the world of hotel phishing. You can read the original post here. The gist of this long winded reply is that Mr Great wants you to send him £6000. Nice try sunshine, I don’t think so! I don’t recommend that […]
It’s not the first time I’ve been told that I’ve won the Microsoft Lottery. This time it’s the “Tenth lottery category”. I’m sternly warned that “cases of double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program will be legally pursued”. Do you suppose I can claim once in each category? Don’t spend too much time worrying […]
It seems to be “write an Iraqi scam” day. Scamming and phishing are truly international sports. One day, I’m going to write a directory of scammy/phishy countries. I don’t think anywhere will be left out. Mr Thabit Alwan was, of course, rich and he did, of course, die along with all of his family – […]
Mr Ateeq Rahman works for a bank. He had a rich client – MR. KHALIL AL NASSER. Do you want to guess the rest?? For once, Mr Nasser didn’t perish in a nasty accident, no, thi sis all Sadaam Husein’s fault. His wife and sons also died, this time in the Gulf War. Ok, back […]
Mrs Maria Sabia tells me she works for Fedex in West Africa. Curiously enough she writes from Brazil to tell me that, but then she does say she is on holiday – until next October. I wonder if Fedex will keep her job open for her if she’s on leave for 10 months?? All I have […]
The HSBC write to tell me they are used to thinking about security. Because of this they have decided to introduce secure transactions. Wouldn’t you think a major bank like the HSBC would already be using secure transactions? They are, of course. This is just a scam. If I point my mouse at the link […]
Another phishy tale from the hotel world. If you’ve been following this site, or spam-and-phishing.blogspot.com, you’ll know there is a whole world of phishing reserved for hotel owners. This one is a request for a booking for four couples, who each want to stay for 14 nights. My cyberfriend Annie has replied and I’ll let you know what […]
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It’s those nice people from the Ningbo Aole electrical applican co – again. They want to send me a shiny new BMW and $485k. All I have to do is display their logo in my lovely new car. And they’re such nice people. They tell me the reason they are sending out scam phishing emails, […]
Lucky me – I’ve won the National Lottery. Problem is – have I won £1m or £100m?? Maybe I can choose? Of course, there’s only one way to win the UK National Lottery and that is to buy a ticket. You haven’t won anything and neither have I. Just delete the email and don’t reply. […]
It’s the Alliance and Leicester. All I have to do is click the link, give the scammers my account details and hey presto – bye bye money. It’s a scam, of course, so just delete it. Don’t click on the link, especially if you are an A&L customer. Dear Valued Customer, You have a new […]
Mrs Mezimba wants my “estemmed” help for a proposition of mutual “enefit”. She’s got a stack of cash to giveaway and tells me to contact her son. She doesn’t tell me who her son is or how I should contact him. Ok – I guess some scammers are just better at it than others. Mr […]
Oooh, lucky me. I’ve won £500 grand from Microsoft in a random draw. Sound likely? No, you’re right, probably not. And it’s only 500 grand. I expect at least a few million these days. Not that I’m high maintenance you understand, or greedy. It’s balderdash and piffle (bet you’ve not heard that one before) – […]
Now there’s a funny thing. Cahoot Bank are having the same difficulties as HSBC. They’ve also limited access to my account until I give the scammers all my log on details. On yer bike mate. Just delete the email. The link the Log In button points to is bigfriend.net – nothing to do with Cahoot […]
This scammer writes to tell me that the HSBC have restricted access to my account because of unauthorised use. Obviously this is a cause of concern to the scammers. If access has been restricted how will they get their sticky hands on my cash? They’ve got the answer though. All I have to do is […]
This morning brought the news that I’m a winner. No attempt to tell me why, or who I’m supposed to have won money from. Nothing. Oh well, who needs all that dosh anyway! It’s a scam of course, so just delete the email and don’t reply. £891,934.00pounds has been won by yourE-MAIL Address in our […]
If you run a hotel or bed & breakfast you have a whole world of phishy emails just to yourselves. Today it’s Pastor John Ray who craves “your sense of honesty and sincerity “. Surely a minister of the cloth isn’t implying that you would tell lies about your room rates. Or maybe he thinks […]
