This one made me laugh pretty hard when I read it. Here we have a classic scam but only in reverse. They are trying to claim to be on your side by protecting you from other scammers when in fact that is just what they are trying to do to you! Don’t fall for their stupid scam. Use your common sense and see the gaping holes in their email and explanation of what they are doing.
As usual they claim to be in one place but use an email from somewhere completely different. They claim to be working on your behalf and have secured money in Nigeria, yet they want you to respond to an email address in China. And the email was originally sent from Taiwan! This should throw up huge red flags in itself.
Notice the classic poor use of the English language, capitalization of words that don’t need it, spelling mistakes and just the clumsy way they attempt to sound official. If you get the email below it is a scam. It is internet fraud so do not respond.
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Right now there is a new Canada Revenue Agency tax refund email scam taking place. The scammers are sending out emails to Canadian email addresses hoping you follow the link and give up your personal details so that they may steal them.
The email subject alone should give this away as a scam – Refund form revenue agency. You would think Canada Revenue would do a better job at spell checking before sending out tax rebate emails. And that’s just it – they don’t notify you by email that you have a return coming. They have your address and they always postal mail it directly to you or post it directly to your bank account if you set it up that way. Never will they email you for any reason regarding a tax refund notice.
If you get the following email it is a scam. Delete it right away and if you have already responded and gave up your personal details you need to contact your local police department and notify them and your bank of what you have done.
Unedited email as we got it:
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Here is a new China Stock Exchange email scam making the rounds. Like all the other email-borne scams this one has all the tell-tale signs of a scam. Really, if it sounds too good to be true – it always is! Don’t be fooled by this email, and if you have already responded you need to cease all correspondence with the scammers and report your actions to the local police to ensure your safety going forward.
When you read the email you will see that their very actions in ‘securing’ the money were illegal to begin with, so ask yourself – why would you want to involve yourself in that? Beyond that – how do these people know you, where did they get your email address and why do they believe they will get any help out of you? All the hallmarks of an internet scam. They will steal your information, and ask you to send banking details and even money to help get the money to you. Don’t send them anything, you will get nothing but ripped off.
The complete scam email is below:
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Dating scams of all sorts are not new and are actually one of the older online scams going. They prey upon those lonely hearts who just want to find love. Who doesn’t want that? Of course there are all types of people looking to exploit that loving feeling for their own means.
Often these scams involve sending unsolicited email to people in which they suggest they are some attractive single who found you and wants to be your lover. If only finding love was that easy! Unless you are an active member of a dating site you know you shouldn’t be getting these emails. And even if you are a member of a dating site almost all of them have internal messaging systems, so unless you specifically gave your email to someone – these are a scam.
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The following is the latest scam email making the rounds. This one is particularly pathetic. Trying to capitalize on the poor plight of orphans, this scammer schmuck tries to pull on your heart strings in order to facilitate their scam.
Do not be fooled by this email. Notice the same giveaways as in other emails including poor grammar, the need to keep quiet and as always a free throw-away email. This one has an aol.com reply email and was sent from an web.de email account. They are feebly trying to cover their tracks.
This idiot claims to be dying and wants to give away money and needs your help. Yet they claim to be already donating money to orphanages! WTF! Why not just give the rest of the money to them?
The email is included below:
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Think about it, you have never heard of this person but they are looking to get to know you better. Hey you might not even be a woman but the girl contacting you hopes you are lonely single guy. The following email is at least a bit clever as it mentions an online dating site as being the source of them finding your contact information but that too is a giveaway.
Like the email below some scammers will attach a photograph of a pretty girl who they are pretending to be. Don’t be fooled.
Most dating sites lock down personal information unless you freely give it. If you haven’t done that or are not even a member of a dating site then you should immediately discover that this email is an attempted scam. Do not respond no matter how lonely you are. If you are that lonely, sign up for a real dating site!
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A new email is making the rounds right now and it has taken in a few people already. If you get the following email you must realize it is not real, you will not really get any money and you are leaving yourself open to identity theft, loss of your money and more.
As per usual with the internet scams we expose you will notice the same giveaway things in this email as the others. Regular readers of this website should readily recognize them in this article. Please read our previous email scam articles to learn more about protecting yourself.
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As a Canadian I love getting the following scam emails. They make for great reading and you cannot help but laugh at how pathetic they really are. If you get emails like this and still respond to them like they are real and it was really sent to you and only you on purpose – you need to read the rest of this website.
You can immediately spot the next scam as just more internet fraud by some rather simple clues. First who is this person, why are they contacting you if they don’t know you and why should you believe they are who they say they are? Answer those questions as you read any suspect email. If you don’t know who the sender is and you don’t know why they are contacting you you can pretty sure it’s a scam, fake, fraud, con or whatever else you want to call it.
The sender of the following scam email pretends to be Canadian but never once capitalizes the nation’s name. Add in the pathetic attempt at proper English and you have yourselves the making of comical though still scam email. And as we so often see the sender tries to tug your religious heart and gain your trust by dropping God’s name. And come on scammer, Canadians are not stupid we don’t use yahoo.com.hk email addresses!
Though after reading the following scam email I do want a vault house. It sounds so secure.
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This is information on the FBI lottery money email scam. This internet fraud is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation name to con you into giving up your money. If you get the following email claiming to be from the FBI it is 100% completely fake and responding to it hoping for money will only bring you financial pain and possible identity theft.
Nobody from the FBI is going to send a Canadian – or anyone for that matter – an email telling them that an investigation has brought to them lottery winnings from a lottery they never even entered. Think about that – how do you win a lottery you never even entered? Do you even know of such a lottery anywhere in the world? Of course you don’t because they don’t exist. Lotteries are heavily overseen via legal institutions, and not rogue entities sending money to people from around the world. Lotteries cost money to run – and obviously for the prizes, so if you didn’t buy a ticket, and nobody else did, how did they find this mysterious money to give away!
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The following email is an employment scam targeting Canadians. Do the usual scam check questions and see this one falls apart quickly.
Did you apply for a job with these people? Are you even looking for work? Was the email addressed to you personally – and this one wasn’t if you look at the source code of the email – which fakes the sender’s address and replaces it with your own. A reputable company doesn’t do such things – they address you personally and don’t hide their identity from you.
As well notice the very poor grammar and spelling. We have not edited the email text below in any way. They try to lure you with the huge starting salary for very part-time work. That should be a hint to any working person that this is a fake…
The domain name international-ca.com WHOIS shows that it was just registered today and it is already sending out scams via spam email. The website resolves to a server setup page. What kind of company offers that starting money that just started out that day? That’s right – none.
The following is a scam. Do not reply in any way to the scammer.
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Hello,
Our company offering a JOB with a salary starting from
$2,036 up to $6,885 per month.
This is in view of our not having a branch office presently in Canada.
Due to ebay paypal and other electronic payment systems policies wich is prohibit to work directly
with residents of some countries, we cannot work directly with individuals, so we need responsible employeefor
intermediary services to be our official representative in Canada.
Requirements:
No experience needed, you need to have at least one bank account in Canada, availability of 2 – 3 hours of spare time per day
and internet-access or phone for communication.
If you are interested in our proposition, you can request more information at Donald@international-ca.com