This lotto award notification that just arrived in my GMail inbox looks new. At leas, I’d say that the Turkish footer is completely new to me, as the lack of reasonable contact info. Maybe a sign of a newcomer in the lottery scamming business? The names are all wrong, the email address could have been […]
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.
Honda Car International Promotion Program
Many thanks to John Jones who sent me this ‘award notification’ from the Honda Car international promotion program. Yet another scam played at newcomers on the web who are led to believe that they have won one and a half million Brittish pounds in cash. If you receive a mail or letter like this, just […]
PayPal phishing from Paypals.com
Phishing is a technique where scammers send out mails where you are lead to think that you log in to a service, supplying your credentials such as username and password. Only, you aren’t even close to the real site. This example is one where I think several people might be fooled. Notice the red markers […]
eLoterie International 2007
A visitor by the name of Michael, posted the below mail from the eLoterie’ International in a comment to another post. The e-mail is signed by the name of Stewart Wallis from Wallis & Gallagher Consulting, a company name that up to this point has been impossible to find on the web.
The Netherlands Staatsloterij and the fake Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program
Even if the below mail, is quite similar to the previously published Dayzers Lottery scam, it is also very different, and needs a post of it own. Thanks to Gita, who submitted it in a comment. The Dayzers Lottery does in fac exist, but they don’t have any free-for anyone e-mail ballots. They even have […]
Asia Online International Lottery
A new brand of the online lottery scam has opened. This time said to be based in Malaysia, and under the name of Asia Online International Lottery. It’s a scam for sure, and my faithful server-side spam filter has stamped it as spam, but let it through anyway. It’s a weird detail that these scammers […]
Robot taking on spammers
Some really smart people at the University of Illinois in Chicago have written an application that can keep conversations going with scammers of all kinds in order to make them use up all their free time in endless conversations without end. The robot can even simulate different personalities…
RRGI press release schedule – stock scam
Stock scams have been a real pain during the passed years, but this one has a new angle. It looks like an internal memo that has been sent out to the wrong address by misstake. It didn’t make it quite through my server-side spam filters though, even if it didn’t gather enough spam points foor immediate deletion.
Nordic SMS Lottery – a scam
Many thanks to Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher who submitted this mail about the ”Nordic SMS Lottery” allegedly sent by the Nordic Lottery payment Office, as a comment to the running thread about the very similar, and probably related Gotenborg SMS Lottery scam. A few points worth mentioning: There is no such organisation as the Nordic […]
Certificate from the false UK National Lottery
In a comment to one of the posts on the UK National Lottery scam, Tahani has kindly contributed what you get when sending in £577 for registering your claim. It’s a very phony looking certificate, and then they want £1500 more for your claim to go through with the payment process.