Category: Spam

September 11, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

So, what’s the dumbest scam or spam on the Internet this week?

A message supposedly from Morrisons congratulating us on being selected for the final draw to win 100 ten pound vouchers for Morrisons.

It says we just have to fill in a short survey then confirm our details.

The message is actually from uk-prizes.com which produces lots of these sorts of emails where you supposedly get something but have to give them information first. And there is no prize except for uk-prizes which can then sell your data.

This particular message is especially stupid as it is dated 10^th September 2016 and says we must complete registration by 31^st May 2016.

Now where did I put my time machine.

September 10, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

An email claiming to be from Barclays and that we have an important message on Barckays-Cloudit but the message is from [email protected] and the link goes to vastgoedkellner.be Simple lies.

Another supposed tax refund from UK Tax and Customs but really from [email protected] The usual rubbish.

Samantha wants us to buy custom wallpaper with motivational messages. I don’t think so.

A tax consultancy wants to set up offshore accounts for us in places such as Andorra and Vanuatu. There’s already enough companies and individuals that avoid paying their fair share of tax.

An email about better accounting services but it’s really just a lead generation company looking for leads it can sell.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

September 3, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Standard scam message about a voice message that it’s urgent for us to hear – but it’s a compressed file attached so likely to be loaded with malicious code.

An email offering cheap new residential lets in Bradford city centre. This is just rubbish from interestingmail.biz looking for gullible people to reply.

An email from Tesco Online (actually from tescoships.com) offering the same £500 Tesco voucher they’ve been emailing about for 12 months now.

An apparently genuine email from AFA Industries in Lithuania trying to sell farm equipment. You gotta be kidding.

Roger Pitfield wants us to switch to his courier company for our overseas deliveries. Our deliveries overseas consist of Internet broadcasting – and you don’t need couriers for that. No Thanks.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

September 1, 2016

Rickards Prediction of Economic Collapse

An impending “70% stock market crash”. A “$100 trillion meltdown” A “coming catastrophe” and “Our leaders have kept us in the dark about this dangerous situation”. These are some of many claims made by Jim Rickards in webpages and email spam messages.

Does he really think the world will end?
We don’t know but in the meantime he’s making a lot of money scaring people.

His latest spam emails claim that the US government knows the crash is coming and has secret plans – a maze of underground bunkers near the Blue Ridge Mountains and so on.

His evidence is all circumstantial and doesn’t really prove anything but if he scares people enough into buying his books then one guy is happy. There are more of these people in America as it has a long history of prophets of the end of the world. Hasn’t happened yet but the strange thing is that whenever one of the end of the world dates is passed and nothing’s happened – people still believe.

What Does Rickards Claim?

Rickards says that beginning in 2015, the U.S. will fall into a 25 year depression. In a Reuters interview, when asked about when this would happen he concedes “I don’t know any more than anyone else”.

He argues that the CIA created something called “Project Prophecy” which actually predicted a 2006 terrorist attack. (shockingly, there are thwarted terrorist attacks every year…..who would have predicted?)
Debt has been systematically used to grow our economy (Ah, there we go…..joining the legions of debt-obsessed apocalyptic doomsayers who have been preaching financial failure for decades)

It starts with $39.50 for a one-year subscription to even more of his marketer-crafted blood-pressure-raising blabber. For $79, you qualify for an ‘Executive Package’ that includes four books full of this fear-mongering. Rickards also wants you to buy his book “The Death of Money”. Supposedly, Rickard’s prescription to financial wellness during his coming Armageddon is gold, real estate, art, hedge funds and cash. These are all very complex investments. No surprise then, that you’ll need to pay for his guidance to make it through the financial mine field that he’s about to lead you into.

August 27, 2016

Those Time-Wasters

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

An email titled ‘Part Payment’ claiming a part payment has been made and the final payment will be next week. But there is attached compressed file to be checked. A boring scammer wanting us to download their malicious content.

A Frederick Mayrhofer and his wife have chosen us to receive a donation of $1,000,000 from their jackpot win of $50,000,000. Isn’t that nice of the lying cheating scamming b*stards.

A warning from Barclays that our online account has been blocked and we need to click on the restore link which is actually a link to an email address [email protected]. Pathetic. The scammer couldn’t get Barclays right – it shows as <Barclays><Bank><PLC>

Boost capital offering us money to grow our business. We’re a volunteer organisation so not relevant to us. In any case, information on the Internet suggests they charge around 40% APR which is dreadful.

An idiot supposedly selling Rayban sunglasses at 81% off. But he can’t even spell summer (he put summber) and the company name at the bottom of the email doesn’t match the links in the middle or the senders address.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

August 21, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

So, what’s the dumbest scam or spam on the Internet this week?

An email from alex sent to a non existent address (omen@…) at the radio station.

The email was titled ‘Omen’ with an attached file called omen.zip

No one with an IQ above 20 would open such an attachment – sent to a non-existent email address and with the ridiculous and unpleasant name of Omen and no content in the message.

Perhaps the author was trying to see if there is anyone with such a low IQ receiving email or perhaps he is just the dumbest of the dumb.