Scammers and Phishers

Some wise words from the BBC, warning about “free trials” of health products, weight loss products etc. Be very careful about what you are agreeing to.  Read ALL of the Ts & Cs before handing over your credit card details, you could...

My grasp of Portuguese is slim, but Google translate tells me this is the usual bank scam claiming your account has been locked.  Complete with a few random characters in the text to help you feel this is a legitimate email – not. NEVER click...

So kind of the president of Nigeria to offer to send me $23m because he’s found my email address.  Obviously that’s the kind of money that you tell someone about in a random email and simply send them if they happen to reply. Of course,...

This “powerful man” has a truly inspiring name – none other than doctordogood69.  I wonder how long it took this scammer to come up with such a convincing name.  About as long as it took them to post this ridiculous scam as a comm...

How many “legitimate Money Lenders” do you know who have the funds to lend up to $20million, who use a generic gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc email address and don’t even have a website?  How many will lend you that kind of money withou...

You may (or may not!) be surprised at how many scammers come to this site and leave their scam emails as comments.  Obviously I’m going to publish them – as scams.  So here is the first of a group that have been left recently. Clearly t...

A client of mine was phoned a few days ago by someone claimed to be phoning from BT.  She was asked if she was using her computer between midnight and 4am.  (They assume that most people will be asleep at that time).  When she said she wasn’...