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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS BLOG.

ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

Winning Notification !

As I say often on this blog – no organisation anywhere ever holds random email draws.  You haven’t won anything and neither have I.  This is a scammer who is hoping you will fall for their deception and start sending them money when they ask you.

Ignore this scammer.

Attention please.

For due processing and remittance of your online email prize of 615,810.00 (Six hundred and fifteen [Continue reading Winning Notification !]

FDIC notification

Just recently I’m being bombarded with scam emails telling me my accounts at just about anywhere you can think of have been suspended.  I didn’t receive the attached document, which I suspect isn’t a pdf but a zip that contains a trojan.  My antivirus software removed the attachment.

Whatever the attachment is, don’t open it and just delete this email.

Dear customer, Your account ACH and WIRE transaction have [Continue reading FDIC notification]

Fwd: Attention: YOURDOMAIN.NET Search Registration

This isn’t so much a scam as a con.  A total con.  If I renew my domain through my regular registrar it will cost me approx $10 – these con artists want $75.

Don’t get taken in by this email.  Renew your domain in the usual way.

I tried the “optout” link at the bottom of this email and it took me to a page that claims my unsuubscribe was successful.  I doubt the [Continue reading Fwd: Attention: YOURDOMAIN.NET Search Registration]

Atten: Friend, kindly get back to me urgently

The only “funds” that this scammer is interested in are yours.  He’s hoping to take your money from you by charging you fees.  He doesn’t have access to millions of dollars – he’s just hoping that you will be stupid enough to give him access to your own money.  Ignore him.

Atten: Friend,

My name is Michael Amoah Potter, I have urgent and confidential business preposition about sum of US$16M [Continue reading Atten: Friend, kindly get back to me urgently]

ACH Payment 9785439 Canceled

I have no idea who ACH are.   You should NEVER open a .zip attachment from someone unless you know exactly where it came from.  This one was removed by my anti-virus software as it contained a trojan.

ACH Payment Canceled

The ACH transaction, recently initiated from your checking account (by you or any other person), was canceled by the other financial institution.

ACH Payment 9785439 Canceled]

IMPORTANT:Alert about your billing information on file

My sister forwarded me this scam.  If you think there is a problem with your BT internet account then log directly into your BT account. NEVER click on a link in an email that asks you to confirm your details for anything.  They are almost always scams, wanting you to give away your credit card detais.

Dear Customer,

This e-mail has been sent to you by BT Internet to inform [Continue reading IMPORTANT:Alert about your billing information on file]

USAID Grant

I’m sure you aren’t expecting a donation of $300k.  This is a scammer – whose only aim is to get you to send him your money by charging you fees.  Ignore this scammer.

Please contact us with the information requested below for the delivery of your Donation draft of $300,000USD (Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) From United States Agency for International Development (USAID) United Kingdom.

USAID Grant]

Winning Notification

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you this is just a scam.  No organisation, anywhere, ever holds random email draws for no reason.  This scammer is after your money.  If you make the mistake of replying to any of the emails s/he seems to be using you will find yourself being asked to send money to pay for “fees”.  Just delete this email and don’t reply.

Apparently I have three different lucky emails [Continue reading Winning Notification]

No Subject

I can’t think of much to say about this pathetic scammer.  I don’t suppose you’ve ever heard of “Mrs Anna Kennedy” and if you do know someone of that name I’m sure you weren’t expecting a random email telling you to contact a barrister who couldn’t even tell you his address, his chambers, his country or even why he wants to hear from you.

I can tell you why he wants to hear from [Continue reading No Subject]

Confirm your interest.

Surprise.  This scammer has a client who died leaving millions of dollars.  And he’s willing to share it with me – or you – or any of the thousands of people he’s emails.  Except that there is no money.  All this scammer wants to do is get his thieving little hands on your money.  If you make the mistake of replying he will start asking you to send him money.  Ignore him.

Confirm your interest.]