Category Archives: Email Scams
Muhammad Ali Chief Defence Officer For Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi
We were wondering how long it would take before someone tried to capitalize on the death of Libyan strongman Gaddafi and it here it is! Like so many other scam emails they try to social engineer you into believing their scam by using names and current events in the news. This scam email claims to [...]
Important changes in security system!
This is a different scam than most that we highlight coming via email, as this one tries to trick you into installing software on your computer so that the crooks may steal your personal data and hijack your computer for further spamming and scams. We’ve seen many scam emails claiming rejected ACH and related payments [...]
Welcome to western union money transfer inc
Sometimes we get scam spam emails that just make us wonder what the heck the scammers were thinking – or not. That is oh so true of today’s attempted scam spam email purporting to be from Western Union. Some scams are just so obvious (or at least should be) and this one is no exception. [...]
New Email Scam Targeting RBC Customers
This is a brand new email scam that just arrived in our inbox targeting Royal Bank of Canada customers. This email scam might not last long as the scammers have pulled the images directly from the official RBC website for their scam email. If anyone with half an ounce of sense at RBC is monitoring [...]
I NEED YOUR UNDERSTANDING – Email Scam
Brand new scam making the rounds is this one proclaiming to be a helpless cancer victim who needs your assistance. As with most scams of this type that come via email, you should quickly notice some tell-tale signs that give it way as a scam. Here is the email as sent to us: My dear [...]
Online Access Password Reset Confirmation
Brand new email scam targeting Canadians who bank online via TD Bank’s EasyWeb services. Made to look official this email scam looks to steal your login details. The email attempts to convince you to click on the links contained within it and be lead to a specially crafted website in order to steal your EasyWeb [...]
BBC News Article Email
Warning – this email just dropped into our email inbox and it’s an easy one to spot but for those with email clients that don’t show the destination for links contained in the body of the email, they may click on the link. The link claims to lead to a BBC News article but instead [...]
This Message Is Very Important! But It’s A Scam All The Same
Well it took longer than we thought to get a scam email using Libya as a reason or excuse to perpetrate their pathetic little scams. This one reads pretty much like they all do – some sob story about something or other and how you some stranger contacted by email can get a piece of [...]
Scotiabank Alert: Your ScotiaCard Was Used – Email Scam
This for us was an easy scam to identify – we don’t even have nor use any type of Scotia Bank product or service so how could we have our card used by someone who should not have? That’s right – it’s a blanket spam email used to find the few that do have a [...]
Fake Bank of Montreal Email
This one just came into our inbox and is brand new in the wild. This fake Bank of Montreal – BMO – email is trying to trick you into signing into a fake account in order to steal your banking details. This email doesn’t contain much information but attempts to play the security card in [...]