Category Archives: Email Scams
MWJDSX2 – Your Account Has Been Locked Botnet Spam
We first reported on this attempted scam yesterday after receiving the first of what is now nearly 50 spam emails with the exact same subject – MWJDSX2 and email body which is noted below. HBC Notice-002.Mastercard Locked. Please contact + 1 9174600123 The very first email we got for this scam had a forged ‘from’ [...]
Your account has been locked – Hudson Bay Financial
This new scam pretending to from Hudson Bay Financial is a scam email that attempts to get you to call a number after which you are asked to give your credit card number – don’t. The scam email we received was very poor in craftsmanship (don’t they even try anymore) and should send obvious red [...]
Walmart Stores – You Have Won Claim Now
Here’s a new email scam hitting the Internet and it attempts to use the widely known Walmart stores as a front for their crime. The first email we got for this scam was obviously sent by an amateur scammer as they screwed up the software sending the spam emails so the text readily displays the [...]
Yes Comment To All Of You
The following was sent to us via our contact form here on this website. Rather than try to explain it or try to deduce just what is up, we will let you try to decipher this one… HELLO, MY NAME IS NUNZIO AND I WAS BORN HERE IN TORONTO CANADA. NOW WHAT I NEED IS [...]
Your intuit.com order status – Scam Email
This is a new scam just hitting the internet as we write this, and it is targeting users of Intuit products and services. The email is fairly clumsy in look but it does make you pause and think for a second – and our office does use these products so it did catch our attention [...]
Tax refund important information – IRS
Being that it is tax season we are once again seeing a flood of scam emails purporting to be from either the IRS (for Americans) and the Canada Revenue Agency for Canadians. This noted email is targeting Americans. This fake Internal Revenue Service email claims to be notifying you of your tax return amount and [...]
Account transactions suspended – FDIC – ACH Wire Transfer
Here is a brand new email-borne scam hitting the Internet as we speak. This one is a step up from the other ACH and wire transfer scams we have been seeing as of late as the scammer has put a bit of work into it in the hopes of convincing you that it is legitimate. [...]
ALBERTA TREASURY BRANCH – Monthly Statement Summary Report
This is a brand new email scam just underway. This one is targeting emails associated with Canada in the hope of attracting a Canadian dealing with the Alberta Treasury Branch. The email claims to be from the Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB) and is supposedly about your account and your need to fill out the form [...]
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 [...]