It didn’t take long for the lowliest of low-life scammers to try to earn a buck on the tsunami catastrophe in South East Asia. The spam mail below is sent from a hijacked DSL connected computer in Thailand. The domain (rescueteam.com) is registered in the US, and has a history of being used for spam […]
iScams - scams on the internet
The web is allways full of gullable people, just like you and I. And there are lots of scammers ready to try to cheat us on our money.
Lottery Scam from Mrs Susan De Meer
I just can’t understand why some lottery scammers think that I would believe that someone would pick my e-mail address and assign it to a number, then randomly pick that number and try to send me 650 thousand Euros. But it looks like ”Mrs Susan De Meer” or whatever her real name is, thinks I […]
Mrs. Tetyana Safonova and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
What is this? Christmas eve for small-time scammers with big plans? I’m swamped in a year-end tidal wave of emails featuring new and old scams. And it looks as if there’s a new crop of iscammers picking up the stick. Really bad formatting, spelling that is worse than mine, and this one doesn’t even seem […]
LUCKYDAY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
The obvious question to ask yourself when you receive a mail saying you just won 900,000 Euro is to ask yourself if you bought a lottery ticket in that particular lottery. If you didn’t, the chances for winning are less than scares. However, this particular scammer has thought about this. So the mail claims that […]
OY KEIKKAUS CONSOLIDATED UNITED EUROAMERICA LOTTERY
Sorry for being a spoilsport, but if you received this lottery scam mail (that looks like a Finnish-Swiss-Brazilian joint venture), I’d just like to warn you against trying to claim any proceedings. Most probably, there aren’t any. OY, is the Finnish abbreviation for Inc. Keikkaus sounds very Finnish to me, but the addres is in […]
Mrs Louisa Ejercitor Estrada, a Philipino iScammer?
This is almost too good to be true! Either there is a whole new wave of internet based scammers, or they have all come together to target my various email addresses. I just found this email in my GMail account, which is hardly spammed at all. I have hardly used the GMail address outside a […]
Privert Rudy – my first Haitian iscammer
My first Haitian 419 mail! The sender claims to be Privert Rudy, the son of Jocelerme Privert, former interior minister in Haiti. The setup is classic with the mention of five million British pounds. The mail is backed up with some good links. But still, it’s an obvious variation of the well known 419 mails. […]
Richard Ubani aka Fidelis Izuka?
The first time this scammer contacted me, he went under the name of Fidelis Izuka. This time the attorney’s name is changed to Richard Ubani. The company name in the setup is changed from Eleme Construction & Development Company into Chevron Oil, but otherwhise it’s pretty much the same mail. Both are based on the […]
Nigerian 419 scam from Dr William Ado
It’s actually been quite a while since I last received a true Nigerian 419 scam mail. And this is almost too good to be true. Allcaps, a 30% share of over 30 million US dollars… the only anomaly is the Belgian e-mail address, but who am I to be picky about such small details after […]
Lottery scammers using the Google brand name
The Signature Darwin sent me a lottery scam mail that actually has the nerve to use Google’s brand name. I guess I know one scammer who is about to get a swarm of corporate lawyers after him. Here is the lottery scam mail using the Google brand, such as I received it: