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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!)

OUR DEAR CUSTOMER

If there was any truth in this do you think that:

a) Western Union would send you an email headed “our dear customer”

b) Western Union would start their email with “attn dear”

Of course they wouldn’t.

You know as well as I do that you aren’t expecting $2.5m.  Ignore this scammer who just wants you to send him your money.

ATTN DEAR,

THE MANAGEMENT OF STERN VILLE CREDIT UNION [Continue reading OUR DEAR CUSTOMER]

Hello

This scammer hasn’t “sourced your profile from a human resource profile database”.  He’s bought a list of millions of email addresses to send his scam email to.  I’m sure I don’t really have to tell you that he doesn’t have $30m to share with me, or you, or anyone else.  He’s hoping that he will soon be rich though, as he’s hoping that you will start sending him money to pay for any “fees” [Continue reading Hello]

No Subject

This scammer has emailed me from Sri Lanka with a daft story about having won $800k.  He hasn’t told me how I’m supposed to have won or why.

Ignore this idiot – you haven’t won anything and he is just hoping you will be daft enough to send him money.

Att;winner,

We are please to inform you that your e-mail has just won for you the lump [Continue reading No Subject]

REPLY ME BACK

This scammer needs a brain scan, not cancer treatment.  A scan to see if his brain is actually there!  He tells me he has the “little sum” of $37m which is, apparently, “the only money” he has with the bank.  Oh dear  - I’d hate to take money from anyone that is reduced to their last 37 million dollars.

This scammer, of course, has no such scruples and will happily take any money you [Continue reading REPLY ME BACK]

Congratulations!! You’ve won $1m

I’m sure you don’t really need me to tell you that Facebook don’t run a random lottery programme. This scammer even has the cheek to ask you to send them $850 for fees. Apparently, if I don’t send it my claim will “AUTOMATICALLY BE FORTIFIED”. The scammer doesn’t tell me what it will be “fortified” with. Another $1m perhaps??? Just ignore this scammer. CONGRATULATIONS!!! You have emerged as one of the [Continue reading Congratulations!! You’ve won $1m]

DIAMOND GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES.

If you do as suggested and visit this scammer’s website, you will realise immediately that there is no such organisation as “Diamond Global Financial Services”.  The website is blank and is just a freebie website.

This scammer has no intention of loaning you anything – he or she is hoping that you will send him your own money, which they will happily take from you to pay their “fees”.

If you need a loan [Continue reading DIAMOND GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES.]

hi

“Mrs. Maimouna Khalid” is the second person today to write and tell me that she is dying from cancer and has millions of dollars to share with me.  She omitted the usual bit about being widowed, childless and having devoted her life to God/Allah.

Don’t believe a word this scammer has written.  His or her only aim is to take your money.  She isn’t dying, she doesn’t have millions of dollars and she has [Continue reading hi]

RE: Notification: ******DESIGNS.COM Domain

“Your order #11111111″ has NOT “been received” because, like me, you have never heard of this rogue company, domurlannual, and certainly haven’t placed an order with them.  My regular registrar charges me approx $10 a year to register a domain, not the $75 that this company are trying to trick me into paying.

Ignore these scammers and use your usual registrar.

Interestingly, this domain was registered in september 2011.  All that seems to be on [Continue reading RE: Notification: ******DESIGNS.COM Domain]

US Airways reservation confirmation.

This could be interesting.  Apparently I am booked on two different flights, both due to leave Washington DC at 10am tomorrow.

DON’T click on the link in these fake emails.  The website it takes you to is infected with malware.

If you clicked on the link and your antivirus software didn’t prevent you from accessing the site, then download and scan your computer with the free version of malwarebytes (http://malwarebytes.org)

US Airways

[Continue reading US Airways reservation confirmation.]

GOOD DAY

“Mike Dave” has emailed me from Lagos in Nigeria to tell me that he represents a company in Yorkshire, UK.  I think that’s a bit unlikely, don’t you?

Although I live in the West Midlands of the UK, not Yorkshire, I don’t think that I would count as an “overseas” investment – it’s dry land all the way from here to Yorkshire!

This scammer has no money to invest in “Your Country”, he doesn’t [Continue reading GOOD DAY]