Tag Archives: personal information
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 [...]
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 [...]
RESPOND IF ONLY YOU ARE INTERESTED SCAM
The following fraud spam email just landed in our inbox. This is another banking type scam but this one is a little scant on details up front. It doesn’t right up front claim you are in for a share of millions, or a recipient of some poor soul’s life savings after their death, but it [...]
YAHOO AWARDS AND WINDOWS LIVE EMAIL SCAM
I am not sure if I should laugh or cry after reading this very poor email scam. They certainly are not shy at attempting to tie themselves to big friendly brand names like Microsoft and Yahoo. But even the most cursory glance at the actual scam email should show you it’s all fake and meant [...]
Request From Russia Email Scam
Just in time for Christmas comes this terrible sob story from Russia. Elana is contacting you because she found your email on the Internet. Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Of course it doesn’t, so don’t fall for it. This email scam is better written than some of late, but make no mistake, the clear aim is [...]
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 [...]
TRUST IN THE LORD AND GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY SUCKER
If you get the following scam attempt in your email don’t reply to it as it is nothing more than a scam. Not any ordinary scam, oh no, this is a scam targeting those who believe in God. The writer pretends – poorly – to be a worshiper of God and wants you to find [...]
Standard Chartered Bank Email Scam
Here is another email-based scam making the rounds. This one, like most email-borne scams of this nature have the same tell-tale signs that you can use to keep from being scammed. The first giveaway which we always point out to our readers is the source of the email. Not only is it from someone we [...]
My Client Died – Help Me Take His Money Scam
Here we have yet another clumsy attempt at conning people into falling for an online scam. As with almost all of these so-called lawyers contacting you out of the blue, this one too leaves an obvious trail behind. Russell here claims to be a lawyer in London yet when you actually read the email you [...]
American Soldier and Saddam Hussein Millions Scam
If this scam is anything it is a great fake story. Designed to sound plausible and well targeted to a certain audience, this particular scam is one you should watch out for. An American soldier has access to barrels of money found in Tikrit after the fall of Saddam Hussein and wants your help to [...]