Category: Spam

Warning of Insurance Offers

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This email is just an example of the many and varied versions in circulation.

Title “Best Life Cover”, Subject “£1 Life Cover – Are You Eligible?”

Then as usual when selling insurance, it highlights lots that can happen in life where you would need emergency funds available.

e.g. What happens when you are no longer around to help?

Or Cover bills and funeral costs to protect your family from financial pressure

Or Don’t leave your family’s future at risk.

The £1 life cover is of course a possibility that would only be available for people in very specific conditions which don’t apply to 99% of applicants.

The email appears to come from a company named clairepier.site which is an odd Internet address as it doesn’t tell you the real company name or business.

Near the bottom of the email it does specify that BestUk Life Cover is just a tradename for a company called eProspects Media DMCC which presumable owns the name clairepier.site

The problem with all of this is not whether the actual insurance offer is real, but that the email is from a Marketing company using a tradename that sounds like Life Insurance  and advertising a promotion from another insurance company.

If you actually want life insurance – contact the insurance companies directly – do not go through these Marketing companies.

They get commission on sales so the policies will never be the best.

The Business Directory Scam

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At the radio station, we keep getting emails from Touch Local Business Directory company telling us that our profile is out of date or needs to be updated  or asking us to confirm our details.

We didn’t ever sign up for the directory and presumably the information they have was purchased somewhere.  They created the profile for our business then email us about updating it.

This is not a scam in the sense of committing fraud but it is a sneaky Marketing ploy.

We don’t really want such a profile listing and certainly won’t be updating it even though it has out of date information.

Their email could have been honest and said ‘We have created a basic profile for your company – would you like to take ownership of it” but they didn’t say that.

Marketing wins out.

Don’t be deceived into thinking you have to own any profiles on your business. Only do so if you want to and it’s worth the time and potentially the cost.