This particular phishing scam is currently in circulation on Facebook. An account will post a clickbait news story, relevant to your local area, designed to cause panic – a child abducted, for example. (I’ve obfuscated the name / photo of this, as it’s likely the account was a compromised account – probably from a similar sort of scam When you click on the post, it takes...
While reviewing a client site, I recently noticed a small number of accounts had registered with spurious firstName and lastName values such as: firstName:You have 5 new messages from Patty: lastName: After some digging, it appeared these customers had legitimate email addresses, however had placed no orders, nor had they interacted with our site. Looking at the logs, these emails had received...
Today, I purchased tickets for the Farnborough Air Show 2014, at a cost of £48 each.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was a £0.50p charge to print my tickets at home!
The charge was the same for collecting from the Box Office.
For convenience, I printed the tickets at home, but feel this charge is totally unjustified.
I received a spam email earlier this week from a guy claiming to be John from Discover Media, asking to place an article on my blog, with a link to his ‘client’ site.His email address was john@discovermedia.co.uk Hi,I work for a company called Discover Media, acting on behalf of a casino client who like to...
Received this email earlier this week… After some googling, I have determined that it’s a scam, and there’s usually a zip file attached. GMail had removed this zip file though I think. This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately...
Back in October, I wrote about a domain name appraisal scam. It appears this is still doing the rounds, but has changed wording slightly. Below is the transcript of messages: Make no mistake, THIS IS A SCAM From: coddington@thedomaininvestors.com Sent: 18...
I recently listed a domain for sale – www.ukcabs.net (incidentally, it’s still for sale if anyone is legitimately interested, please feel free to contact me) It was listed on places like Sedo, I advertised it on twitter and eBay. On Saturday, 9th May, 2009, I received an email from...
I’m a recent fan of Ed Hardy “stuff” T-shirts, and belts mainly. As with every latest trend, these are obviously available on eBay, however a lot of items offered here are fake. I generally try to be careful when purchasing clothing on eBay. For example, I’ll always email the seller for verification that the item is genuine. I wanted an Ed Hardy belt. Apart from www.edhardyshop.com, there...
I received another fake lottery thing today, this time from Deborah Shiemke – dispatch@mailonetoday.co.cc Here’s the body of the email We congratulate you this day as you have emerged a winner in the Game Corner International Lottery Organization. See...
I thought this kind of email had fizzled out, but, apparently i’ve won 750m euros. Anyway, for the sake of google, the originating email address was eustakevan@virgilio.it Winning coupon number 76.47.49.12 Dear Sir/madam, We are pleased to inform you that, you have won the sum of €750,000.00 Euros...
I’d like to take this opportunity to let others know what happened. This guy won an eBay auction I had going for my mother. He paid promptly by PayPal, and requested I post it as cheap as possible to Hungary. 3 days after i marked his item as dispatched, he filed a dispute with PayPal. PayPal requested i send them proof of delivery (which i did) They wrote back, stating that it does not...
I just received another car scam attempt: Thomas Freeman – thomas_freeman1962@yahoo.com I’ve pasted the email below, word for word, and in same font. Dear sir/MaI am responding to your advert on auto trader advert site regarding to the car you wish to sell. I am very much...
I’ve started this category to make people aware of various means of scamming car owners, when selling their vehicles. The general idea is this: Someone will contact you, after seeing your advert. They will seem interested, and sometimes ask for more pictures etc… After some “haggling” they will aggree to buy your car at your asking price (or very near) They will then send...