Oh look – the unforgettable “Caravan Marvis” has appeared again.  When he wrote to me in March (see here) the MD of the HSBC BANK UK was apparently called “Mrs Joan Coal” and her email address was a Hong Kong based Yahoo mail address.  Now the HSBC is apparently headed by a lady called “Mrs ...

What a load of illiterate, meaningless rubbish.  This scammer can’t decide if he’s in Nigeria or Benin – he sounds confused. Which is what you’ll be if you try to make sense of this scam. Just ignore it.  You know perfectly well you aren’t expecting $10.5m.  If you make the mistake of replying you just ...

This scammer claims to be the UN Secretary General (yeah, right, pull the other leg).  This venerable gentleman has apparently decided to send me a random email and start it with polite enquiries into the health of myself and my family.  He then goes on to tell me he will send me $850k.  And finishes ...

Why do scammers seem to think that awarding themselves an imaginary title is a good way to go?  Who really believes that anyone called Rev Something would work for the UN.  A real Rev would be in church, taking sermons, conducting marriages, funerals and christenings and attending to their ministry duties – they wouldn’t be ...

If this email really did come from FedEx (which it doesn’t), then it would be none of their business to know what was inside my parcel. And if the United Nations really did ow me $890k, do you think they’d send me a cheque – by courier?  Of course they wouldn’t.  I can think of ...

You aren’t expecting a payment from “Mr Williams” and neither am I.  All this scammer wants to do is start stealing your money.  If you make the mistake of replying you will yourself being asked to send money.  Just ignore this scammer. FROM THE DESK OF MR.CLARK WILLIAMS OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA ...

This scammer seems to think that Nigeria should be “removed from the World’s scam list as one of the world’s hottest scam region”. He seems to think that the way to do this is by sending me a scam email offering me compensation. Do you want to guess where this email was sent from?  Go ...

A reader in the USA forwarded me this scam.  She commented that “Luckily” she has a sense of humour. As, apparently, did Mr/Ms Nelson’s parents when they named their infant prodigy. James William isn’t in Japan and he has no intention of sending you money.  He wants you to send him money – he’s a ...