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ALL of the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, work at home offers and business proposals that you receive by email or in the post ARE SCAMS.
NO ORGANISATION ANYWHERE EVER holds random email draws. They are ALL SCAMS. You CANNOT WIN a lottery or prize draw that you HAVE NOT ENTERED.
Please don't post comments asking me if the scams you have received are real. I can't answer them all and you KNOW they are scams!

Halifax Online Banking – IMPORTANT MESSAGE

A variation on the bank scam theme here.  This scammer is pretending that you have phoned your bank.  The scammer hopes you will panic into clicking the link.  The link takes you to mail.ime.co.th/……..  The scammer has hacked into a legitimate site to upload their scam.

NEVER click on a link in a bank email. ALWAYS enter the address of your bank website directly into your browser. If you think you might have accidentally given your [Continue reading Halifax Online Banking – IMPORTANT MESSAGE]

Collect Your Parcel From Our Dispatch Unit!!!

How unusual – an advance fee fraud.  Advance fee – because it asks you to pay money.  Fraud – because it is!  Are you really expecting a Mastercard worth £200k?  Of course you aren’t.  Since when was it any of DHL’s business to know what is in the parcels they deliver?

Just delete the email and don’t reply.  If you reply you will find a scammer asking you for more and more money.

Dear Customer/Beneficiary!

Kindly contact our [Continue reading Collect Your Parcel From Our Dispatch Unit!!!]

Contact

What a load of rubbish.  Ungrammatical, poorly written and repetitive.  This scammer claims to offer loans – yet the only contact details given are an msn email address.  No accreditations, no website, no address – nothing.  Not surprising really – this scammer doesn’t want to lend you money, he or she wants to take money from you by charging you fees.  Delete the email and don’t reply.

Dear sir/madam,

Trusted Financial Market offers 100% Project Funding [Continue reading Contact]

MID YEAR 2009 REPLY TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING SUM

Mrs Wilbeirt isn’t writing so she can send you 1.5m Euros.  She’s writing in the hope that you will fall for her scam and send her money for fees.  There was no lottery and you haven’t won anything.  Delete the email and don’t reply.

Dear Lottery Winner, Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the result of UTILITY NATIONAL e-LOTTO NL 2009 Award Promotion. We are happy to inform you that your [Continue reading MID YEAR 2009 REPLY TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING SUM]

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB

Yet another scammer who seems to think that being bullying and rude is a good way to make me believe their scam. I’m told that “Such an illegal act like these have to stop” – if I want to get my hands on the money they say is mine. There is no money.  This is a scam – the scammer wants to take money from you by charging you fees. Delete the email and don’t [Continue reading Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB]

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT © 2009

I smell a phish.  Does this email make any sense?  No, it doesn’t.  It’s just a load of old gobbledegook – written by a scammer who doesn’t even know what he/she thinks he or she is talking about.

There is no money.  There is a scammer waiting to take money from you by charging you fees.  Delete the email.

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB : “FINANCIAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION”


THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT YOUR EMAIL [Continue reading COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT © 2009]

Re: Hello

Yvonne Wilcocks has problem, poor love.  Her entire family died in a plane crash and she is – yes you guessed it – rich and dying.  Oh yes – and she’s a SCAMMER.

Ignore the email.  She’s being totally disrespectful to the families of the real victims of the disaster.  AND – she wants to get her hands on your money by charging you fees.

Delete the email and don’t reply.

Dear Friend,
ABOUT ME
The way I see it, [Continue reading Re: Hello]

Resolve Problems in Account

Another scam bank email – seems to be a lot of them around at the moment.  As ever, NEVER click on a link in a bank email.  ALWAYS enter the address of your bank directly into your browser.

If you think you might have accidentally given your bank details to a scammer, contact your bank immediately.

Dear Egg Bank Customer,

Egg is constantly working towards security of all our online banking users.Resolve Problems in Account]

Your Account Update

Another obvious bank scam email.  Where does that link take you?  http://capital-security.us/ – NOT the address of the Bank of America website.

NEVER click on a link in a bank email – even if it does appear to have come from your own bank.  ALWAYS enter the address of the bank directly into your browser.

If you think you might have accidentally given your bank details to a scammer CONTACT your bank immediately.
Bank of [Continue reading <a href=Your Account Update]

PayPal Notification of Limited Account Access

Another fake Paypal notice.  How do I know it’s a fake?

1)  Look at the email address it claims to have come from.  “service@alert.paypa.co.uk”.  Read that carefully – it doesn’t say paypal.

2) If you click on the link in the body of the text it takes you to “http://mail.ime.co.th/paypal……..”  NOT the address of the Paypal website.

NEVER click on a link in a Paypal email.  ALWAYS enter the adress of the Paypal website directly into your browser.  [Continue reading PayPal Notification of Limited Account Access]