Category Archives: Nigerian Scams
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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 Reverse Nigerian Scam Email
You have to love this scam email. This is a reverse Nigerian scam in that the scammer claims to be with the US government and is seeking to protect you from other scammers. Just priceless. This email scam like all the others comes with all the tell-tale signs that it is a scam intended to [...]
Work With Me To Claim The Estate Of A Late Client
Another scam email attempt with the simple message of helping some unknown person secure money and in return you get a piece of the action. It’s a scam plain and simple. This one differs from the others we have written about lately in that it is simple. There is no fake company names and pretending [...]
Compensation Committee of British Petroleum PLC Scam
Here is the very latest scam email to drop into our email inbox. This is your prototypical Nigerian type scam email where you are promised some type of monetary gain because of some type of event and all you have to do is respond to the email and you will get rich fast. Of course [...]
Your New Payment Reference: 001open
Brand new email scam targeting Canadians. As with all of these scams do not respond and do not click any of the links that may be in the email. I just read about a victim who identified the email as a scam but clicked on the link in it out of curiosity only to have [...]
Western Union Lottery – Congratulations!
Here we have the very latest Western Union Lottery email scam. First the lottery doesn’t even exist and no lottery is going to ask you to send money to get money. Western Union doesn’t hold any lottery of any sort in any country. Clear? This one should be very clear as a Nigerian scam as [...]
EFCC & F.B.I Faud Alert Stop every email transactions – Scam
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 [...]
Trust Me I Am Canadian
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 – [...]
Unclaimed Millions Beneficiary Email Scam
If you get the following scam email do not respond to it. We have seen this type of email dozens of times over the past few months. It brings up the no beneficiary angle and offers you the chance to get a nice return for acting as a recipient. The scammer boldly asks you to [...]
TRUST IN THE LORD – VERSION TWO
Somebody must be falling for these poorly written scams as the Trust In The Lord scam is back. And by back I mean they barely even changed the text of the scam email. They simply replaced a few words – namely people’s names and places. The scammer didn’t even bother to check to see if [...]