Quite a few scammers have texted me with alleged remote job offers lately. For clarity, I’m not even looking for a job, remote or otherwise. They appear to target individuals at random. The most recent one contacted me on WhatsApp after finding my number on a tour site. I was 99% sure it was a scam before he even delivered his pitch, from the first corny message. It was sent by … [Read more...]
The Spotify Curation Scam
Yesterday I received an email from Spotify for Artists that was titled "A curator is waiting for you!"The only communication I typically receive from Spotify consists of the monthly reports and issues, as well as the occasional notification of the "your music is scheduled for release" kind.This was something new. I clicked to take a look. The content of the email read as … [Read more...]
The Musterbation-Blackmail Scam
The other day, my girlfriend received the following bullying letter from the address [email protected]. First of all, since you happen to be reading this, there is a great chance you've received the same and may be worried.Calm down. This is a 100% scam. That's crystal clear from the fourth-from-the-end paragraph. If they had some recording in reality, especially since … [Read more...]
DVLA “vehicle is no longer taxed” Phishing Scam Email
My girlfriend today received an email allegedly coming from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of the United Kingdom. It was titled "something went wrong" and prompted to tax some untaxed vehicle.The sender's email ([email protected]), as well as the letter's general awful grammar and shabby composition, would have betrayed that it was a phishing scam if that … [Read more...]
A Scam from Benin – Scam Prank for a Good Laugh
Few things I find as amusing as a good scam baiting operation. The other day, I ran into one of the stupidest scams ever, but which turned out to be one of my funniest correspondences with scammers as well. I won't go into details about the scam itself in this introduction, as it hardly made any sense at all, but I will embed below the entire dialogue I exchanged with that … [Read more...]
WeTransfer Scam: most subtle phishing attempt ever
In all my time examining online scams and teasing their perpetrators, never have I before run across a so sophisticated phishing attempt like this WeTransfer scam I am about to describe in this article. In fact, this scamming attack was so subtle and personalized that, to this day, I maintain a trace of doubt, however slight, with regard to whether it indeed was a fraud. That's … [Read more...]
Watch out for this Netflix Scam Email
It seems like scammers have siginificantly scaled up their phishing attempts through the 2020 COVID pandemic. Besides other popular services and websites they have been striving to hijack with fake emails, I recently ran into one allegedly coming from Netflix. The cheesy email, bearing Netflix's logo, claimed that my subscription is about to expire due to a missing payment, and … [Read more...]
Whatsapp Scam: Promo Awards Prize Winner
It's been quite some time this idiotic phishing scam attempt has been frantically circulating the Internet. The idea is that the stupid fraudster will try to convince you that you won a large sum of money as a prize from a lottery run by some big online platform. I first bumped into it a bit more than a year ago, when they contacted me as representatives of an alleged Viber … [Read more...]
Airbnb Guest asking for Whatsapp Number? Look out for this Scam
It's quite some time a trivial scam, run by a bunch of Russian morons, has been targeting Airbnb hosts worldwide. I first came across it in January 2020 when the idiots tried their luck on me. I then was asked to communicate with them on Telegram. Since I understood right away that it was an aspiring fraud, I did contact them in order to carry out this good piss-take on them. … [Read more...]
m͏a͏i͏l@͏u͏p͏d͏a͏t͏e.͏a͏m͏a͏z͏o͏n.͏c͏o͏m – Beware of fake Amazon Email Scam
The other day I received a "notice alert" from an email address allegedly related to amazon.com. The notification informed me of my Amazon account being blocked due to suspicious log-ins and requested me to take action in order to unblock it. It was sent from the email address m͏a͏i͏l@͏u͏p͏d͏a͏t͏e.͏a͏m͏a͏z͏o͏n.͏c͏o͏m with the additional address … [Read more...]
