The other day, I received an e-mail with what I first preceived as a very threatening content (see below). As it turned out the sender had confused me and Nikke’s Index with a Spanish lottery scam setup (probably the Loterie Nationale, El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International or any of their offsets). The sender […]
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.
ticket nr 893610
I just cannot understand why scammers, and especially lottery scammers find it so difficult to format their sting mails properly. In my oppinion, presentation just has to be vital in a good scam. Transfer these scam emails to the offline world, think for a minute or two. If a rugged person who can hardly speak […]
Sara Vincente, Euro Lotto Company
Usually, I edit out the worst formatting errors from lottery scam e-mails like the one below. But usually, they just have a few hard line breaks. This one though, is almost hopelessly malformated. And the subject line… Which legitimate lottery agent would write PLZ BE INFORM in the subject line of a lottery notification? Of […]
Chan Lee – United Overseas Bank scammer
This is a beauty. If you never, ever saw a 419 scam mail, read this one. Sent from somebody calling himself Chan Lee, from an Italian Yahoo account, and with a reply address to a Yahoo account from Singapore. A letter sent to an e-mail address that I only use on my drink recipe site, […]
Paypal phishing – what a nerve
Some people really do have a lot of nerve, don’t they? I just received this phishing attempt to an e-mail account that I have never ever used, and that is visible (and collectable as it turns out) from my Text Pong pages. Now. Phising isn’t new, but to do a phishing attempt in a mail […]
National Lottery scam using the same text for a year
A major mistake to avoid if you are a lottery scammer would be to send out the exact same mail more than once. Especially using the exact same ticket number (5647560054 188), the same serial number (5368/02) and even the same lucky numbers (50-18-22-24-32-33) more than once. Tonight when I received two emails with these […]
BINGO LOTTO NL online Sweepstakes International program
Here we go again. Yet another time I’m disqualifying myself from a million Euro lottery cash price. A bogus cash price from a non-existent lottery announced by a scammer who’s after the petty cash he can pull in from bogus registration fees and courier services, that is. It’s amazing that I still get these scam […]
Kady Bakassa and the Mr Bakassa incident – 419
04/11 2006 – Wow! It was so long since a 419 mail slipped through my double spam protection, that I’m almost excited to hav received one. And such a gem it is. Complete with all-caps, a dead father, a surviving son and daughter with the exotic name Kady Bakassa… and a deposit of 7 million […]
Wendy Johnson of the Loterie Nationale
Take a few seconds and try to imagine that one of these lottery notifications where actually legitimate. Imagine winning 2.5 million dollars from a e-mail collecting service that had harvested your e-mail address from the web, and then just wanted to hand out all that cash to you. Yeah. Pretty hard to believe, isn’t it? […]
6 Ball Games Lottery
If there was indeed a company running a lottery called the 6 Ball Games Lottery handing out cash prizes of 2 million pounds, wouldn’t you think that they would have a functioning web site? Wouldn’t you expect them to send out their winning notifications from their own domain rather than from an msn.com address? And […]