Tag Archives: email scam
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 [...]
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 [...]
Royal Bank of Canada Email Scam
There is a brand new email scam hitting in-boxes across Canada targeting clients of the Royal Bank of Canada. Unlike the cleverly created email scam we last highlighted for the TD Canada Trust clients, this one is pathetic in its makeup and execution. Clearly a rank amateur at work. The following email alert from the [...]
TD Canada Trust Email Scam
This TD Canada Trust email scam just dropped into our inbox. It has the usual tell-tale signs of a scam but it is better crafted than most email scams. They want you to believe that your online banking account at TD Canada Trust has been the target of an attempted break-in and as such you [...]
PayPal Scams Via Email
PayPal scams via email are a topic we haven’t touched on much because it has been covered to death by other security groups/people. But the very latest PayPal scam email that just landed in our inbox is just to funny to pass up. These guys are idiots. You can tell it is a rank amateur [...]
Lucky Seven Email Scam
This email scam just dropped into our email inbox and wow what a surprise – it is just like all the other scam emails which find their way into our lives via email. As with all scam emails this one has tell-tale signs that should alert you to the scam they are trying. This is [...]
How To Identify Fake Canadian Government Websites
Get Rich Fast was asked today by a reader to help identify a fake website purporting to be a government of Canada website, and that question was the inspiration for this post. Here is how to identify and protect yourself from a fake Canadian government website as sent by email scammers. Often the scam will [...]
Domain Notification: This Is Your Final Notice of Domain Listing
This scam is not a new one but it has made a recent and large return with the scammers sending mass email spam to domain name owners from lists gleamed from non-private WHOIS contact information. They send what appears to be a bill for renewing your domain name or to renew ‘search engine’ services which [...]
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 [...]