Scaring people about storage limits, while microsoft provides unlimited storage for hotmail.

If you write the website on your browser, a shocking red screen comes up, marked as dangerous and with the following msg.

Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on surya-kencana.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards).

See the picture

This is a typical phishing email, using Microsoft logo and deceiving hyperlinks.

I was searching for mobile phone on OLX and came accross his ad. He contacted me on whatsapp for further details. I've been in conversation with him for 3 days related to the company and product details I want to buy. He asked me to pay tax amount in advance and rest amount on cash on delivery. On his suspicious behavior like offering me discounts and cheap price, I've contacted the best buy customer care support and asked them if this person is your company's sales executive. I then came to know he doesn't belong to the company and the products from the bestbuy don't ship to Pakistan. Meanwhile I got alert from OLX that this user has been blocked due to suspicious activities.Timely alert of OLX and bestbuy support saved me from this scam.

Whenever any person tries to contact you personally, kindly make sure if he actually belongs to the company he claims.

A few days ago, I registered a domain www.pos.team with godaddy, and all of a sudden, see how much spam I started receiving within the week from web developers through out the world. All emails are offering services for website development.

None

Its hard to not accept that either my data/ information was sold to these developers, or they have access to godaddy systems, or someone in godaddy is leaking information and making money. Nothing one can do about these hackers or big guns like godaddy unless another big gun puts them to task and teaches them a good lesson.

About a year ago, if your website used godaddy, you will be able to allow users to upload DOCX files via a form etc. Now its been denied. Its a blackmail luring you into buying the dedicated hosting package. The problem is that when you get an error while uploading a DOCX file on any website, the whole website hangs for a few minutes.

There are no responses on godaddy help forum from godaddy. People have been asking and asking...

https://www.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Web-Hosting/Users-unable-to-upload-docx-files-from-form/td-p/56759

Every big gun has a way of being manipulative and get away with it. DOCX is an industry standard and denying DOCX file uploads is ridiculous.

I have been very upset that my iPhone 6 has slowed down a great deal. My battery was tested and it showed it to be healthy. Think Apple has done this so that it will force you to buy an iPhone 8 or an iPhone X. I do not buy their excuse the new software does not run on the older phones. My iPhone was running perfectly until they slowed it down through a software update and this was originally done without the customer's knowledge. I also learned for the first time today that when Apple does a screen share on your computer they record your computer. As a customer, I don't like the fact you are forced to have your computer recorded if you need to screen share with a tech agent. I don't think any customer wants their computer information recorded. There is no telling what Apple will do with that information. We saw the problems with what Facebook did with their members' information.

Hello....,
we apologize for this problem and we will try to fix it as soon as possible. please try to install the latest ios update? (I did that and the phone became even slower)

Apple is trying to make the old iPhones like iphone6 and iphone7 become slow to force you to buy iPhone x and 10. Don't install any software update if you have iPhone 6 or 7.

Unfortunately, I fell in love with its center drawer and purchased a 4-door Samsung Refrigerator Freezer 3 and a half years ago, for $3200.00, without doing proper research. The model is RF24FSEDBSR and was manufactured in Sept of 2014. I still love the center drawer, but it is not enough to make up for the rest of the appliance. This is a prime example of a company that thinks highly of itself but doesn't care that it sells absolute junk. The number of problems and repairs for the ice maker, add up to this being the worst purchase I have ever made and that is saying something. I have put up with months and months of temporary fixes, thawing with hairdryers, mopping up pooling water on the floor of the refrigerator section and just doing without ice.

Recently, I have had 3 service calls for the ice maker. The ice maker freezes solid and won't dispense ice. Then, I need to move all my refrigerated food to a cooler and my frozen food to the outside freezer; turn off the entire unit for 2 days, with both doors propped open; and put an air circulator/warmer inside, just so the repairman can pry the completely frozen icemaker out without cracking the wall of the refrigerator. On the last service call, he replaced the entire ice maker for about $550.00. My total out of pocket for repairs and service is about $850.00. I fully expect that amount to grow. Now, it sort of works, but makes very little ice, (which will not be enough with summer coming).

I cannot get cubed ice, just crushed ice; there is water dripping down the front of the refrigerator and it is a constant source of aggravation. Samsung wasn't sympathetic or helpful when I talked with them, and they suggested that I should have purchased their 5-year Samsung Service Agreement for $1750.00 when I had a chance. Really? They were supposed to call me back (within 24 hours) 10 months ago, and I'm still waiting. Complete waste of time, money, effort, energy and resources. "Do not ever buy a Samsung refrigerator because they are expensive junk", was the advice of my repair person, who has owned an appliance repair business for many years. I could have saved myself lots of frustration, and money, if I had done my research.

we are so sorry for what happened to your refrigerator, however, you should have purchased our 5-year Samsung Service Agreement for $1750.00 when you had a chance. we will make sure to call you back within 24 hours.

Do not ever buy a Samsung refrigerator because they are expensive junk, and that was the same advice my repair person gave me, who has owned an appliance repair business for many years.

I posted a job on Upwork, where I wanted people to bid for making an iOS app for me. I already have a similar android app called myMentos. Turns out Upwork people or some one in that company is selling my information to people outside of Upwork, and I am receiving emails with bids and solicitations.

Hey .........l,

I'd like to have one of my guys create a basic proposal for the ‘MYMENTOS: Create an iOS app similar to existing android app’ project that I think you posted online but before I do I'd like to have a call to discuss things & share a few ideas so that I am sure what we send you is as accurate as possible.
Give me a call when you get a minute via the contact info listed below, or if you would like to reply with a good time I will reach out to you Appreciate your time.!

Best Regards,
Vidya V
US: +1 480 409 4248
Whatsapp: +91 80071 17159
Skype Handle: vidya.etpl

There are some big companies out there that you've probably never heard of, that know more about you than you can imagine.

They're called data brokers, and they collect all sorts of information — names, addresses, income, where you go on the Internet and who you connect with online. That information is then sold to other companies. There are few regulations governing these brokers.

Be careful when you share personal info on the internet...

Horrible experience with no resolution still! My husband and I ordered a $500 set of dressers and nightstands for our new house. We placed the order on May 7th and received a confirmation email which stated we would be contacted prior to the delivery. After nearly two weeks came and went with no update from the company, we started to get concerned.

After moving in, we had realized that the items we ordered were going to be too large for our room. I hopped on the phone to inquire about the status of the delivery and to see if it was possible to just cancel. I was not very happy after being told that there was a 110-minute wait... Yes... An ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MINUTE LONG WAIT to speak with a customer service representative. I thought it was a joke but quickly realized, they weren't kidding.

After checking the online tracker on May 20th, we realized the items were out for delivery so we took a sigh of relief and purchased new dressers, with the intent of receiving and returning the IKEA furniture. Around 6 pm that evening, I received a call from an unknown cell phone number. It was the IKEA delivery driver calling to let me know that his truck broken down but he actually lived around the corner and would be willing to bring the merchandise by after getting his new work truck within the hour. He also said that another driver could pick it up and deliver it at a later date.

I mentioned that we were planning to return the items and asked about our options. The driver stated that he would have dispatch call me in about 5 minutes. Eager to get our money back, we asked him to still deliver the items as soon as possible. We never received a call from the dispatcher and the driver never showed up with our furniture. When I called the number back, the driver did not answer and two days later, will still not return my calls.

My husband and I are FURIOUS that we are out $500 as new homeowners and still don't even have the furniture we purchased!! We can't get any assistance from customer service over the phone because of absolutely ridiculous wait times and when we visit the local store, nobody seems to know what's going on and can't help us. We just want our money back or our merchandise so that we can take it to the store and return it ourselves!

Please, please, please DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!! Just shop elsewhere and spare yourself the time and an unnecessary headache. If we don't get some sort of response from IKEA in the next few days as to what exactly is going on with our order, the matter will be escalated. It took IKEA 5 minutes to take that money out, we're not waiting months to see it refunded. We fully intend to hire an attorney, should the issue continue to persist.

received a confirmation email on May 7th which stated we would be contacted prior to the delivery. I hopped on the phone to inquire about the status of the delivery. I was being told that there was a 110-minute wait to speak with a customer service representative.

please DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!! Just shop elsewhere and spare yourself the time and an unnecessary headache.

I purchased a BeautySleep Sanford Plush Mattress from Walmart.com and my mattress arrived at my door in horrible condition. The man who delivered it, from the start, asked me to get up into the small delivery truck and take a look at my purchase. Upon inspection, the plastic protection at the front (top) of the mattress had been broken open in several places, and the material/top of the mattress was embedded with oily-black semi-trailer brake dust or some sort of black STAINS! The delivery driver said that I could reject the delivery but that it would probably be best if I just ACCEPT DELIVERY, and he had me take photos of not only his original delivery invoice, which proved that his company had received the mattress in its horrible condition, but he also told me to take photos of the mattress; as he took photos of his own of the mattress once he had brought it up to my house.

The mattress was under $300.00, so it was a cheap purchase, but this should not mean that I should have had to accept a filthy mattress. Thanks to the WALMART.COM's choice of shipping/deliverers (Pilot Freight Services), and thanks to the fact that WALMART chooses to not respond to my complaints/photo proofs that they are totally irresponsible.

I didn't get any response from Walmart.

I decided that I won't ever buy anything from Walmart again, and I advise you to do the same if you don't want to receive your product in a horrible condition.

This person is offering business partnership sending fake emails to reach persons for his own benefits.

I wish to bring to your notice that I have a very urgent, profitable and genuine business for you to handle on my behalf, there in your country for our mutual benefit.Please revert back to me as soon as possible via my regular email.

Best regards,
E-mail: ozomedicospharm@gmail.com
Dr. Brown Churchil
Assistant Production Manager

Please do not respond to these emails if you get any, you can have financial loses as they can ask to invest.

The email is received from a Reverend who is also presumably poses to be a DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR at the IMF. The Reverend is offering an IMF payment directly to me. IMF is a lending organisation for national governments, it does not make payments to individuals.

Good Day?

This is to intimate you of a very important information which will be of a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been experiencing in getting your long over due payment due to excessive demand for money from you by both corrupt Bank officials and Courier Companies after which your fund remain unpaid to you.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondence on the uneasy way which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier Companies across Europe to Africa and Asia and we have decided to put a stop to that and that is why i was appointed to handle your transaction.

All Governmental and Non-Governmental parasites, NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Courier companies which have been in contact with You of late have been instructed to back up from your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them anymore since the IMF is now directly in Charge of your payment.

You are hereby advised NOT to remit further payment to any institutions with respect to your transaction as your fund will be Transfered to you directly from our source. I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk.

Respond to this e-mail on (williamsfranklin277@gmail.com) with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released.

Department Director Name: Rev. Williams Franklin
Email: williamsfranklin277@gmail.com

Regards,
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.
REV.Williams Franklin

The IMF assists countries hit by crises by providing them financial support to create breathing room as they implement adjustment policies to restore economic stability and growth. It also provides precautionary financing to help prevent and insure against crises. The IMF’s lending toolkit is continuously refined to meet countries’ changing needs.

I dont know who is hacking the Poor Fiddle Guy or the Rich Standard Chartered Bank, but for an ordinary user, its a phishing scam...

<https://online.standardchartered.com/nfs/foa/theme/default/images/logo.gif>

Standard Chartered Online Banking User Account BLOCKED.

UNLOCK <http://thefiddleguy.com/sc.php>

Pakistan - Standard Chartered Bank.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViolinScam

Another phishing attempt in the name of Outlook/ Hotmail, sent as H0tmail Server <noreply@accountmicrosoft.com>. The email comes with a link that will take you to some strange link on http://www.kingpoker99.com.

Hello

RESET INFORMATION

We received your instruction to empty all your Inbox and Sent Folders and delete mailbox from database

We will Delete & Close Your Mailbox Within 24 hour as requested by you,

You need to confirm if you made this request or we will continue with the request.

If you think it is an error, take action immediately to stop this process.

CANCEL & STOP ACTION NOW


Thank You,
Outlook Team

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/fbi-targeting-worlds-worst-email-spammers/story?id=39681104

After thorough research, I chose to invest my funds to a seemingly booming industry of cryptocurrency. I placed a small amount of 500usd to test it out. Results were promising and I was hardpressed to keep using this service until one day it shut down and all the funds were frozen. It appears that they did some kind of scam. I cannot believe that I fell for such greedy activity.

They did not refund any money but it is now clear that their owner Homero Joshua Garza is about to face criminal charges for his conduct.

Avoid cloud mining pools like a plague - you will never know who is real and who pretends to be one. It is better to invest in things that you know and understand.

This is embarrassing, and so naive of us! But I have to tell this story. My friends and I were in Times Square and this guy was outside this theater place and had these cards for a comedy club and we desperately needed something fun to do! They were 20$ upfront. He kept telling us that famous people go to these kinds of comedy clubs, and other stuff like that to reel us in. We knew that we weren't going to see a celebrity, but it still seemed like fun since it was a comedy club. We stupidly bought the tickets. I think we were all a bit pressured into buying them, if I'm being completely honest. After we went in, we realized that you also HAVE to buy drinks for minimum 20$ too! I'm not even 21, and we all wasted a lot of money that night for literally nothing. The comedy show was crappy, and I just needed to pee in the most disgusting bathroom ever thanks to the 20$ in drinks that I spent.
Later on, I did some research, and there are a lot of people that were scammed in the same way that we were.

Moral of the story: don't give anybody money in Times Square or anyone on the street unless you're just giving them a donation and expect nothing in return

My coworker told me that she experienced the same problem as I did, so that's why I decided to share my story with the world. Although I am fairly certain that I am not the first, or the second fool that they did this too.
The first of June is my birthday, and during my birthday it's pretty normal for me to get a lot of messages, cards and a lot of emails. I usually open them all on my birthday, but I answer them the day after my birthday. It's not unusual for me to received e-cards, but this one was a bit different. It was from a random email, but the email said the name of one of my friends. It said that I needed to download/update a program so that the card could play itself. I didn't really think hard about it. If I see that something needs to be downloaded or updated, I just do it. When I clicked on the link, it actually downloaded a virus. My computer crashed right away, and the scariest part is that whoever did that to me had access to all my personal information. Even access to my funds.
I had to buy a new laptop because I hadn't invested in a good antivirus program, so they couldn't save my laptop. I lost a lot of money, sleep and I was insanely stressed just because of one stupid fraudulent e-card.

When you receive an email from someone that you don't know and it contains a link, listen to me closely: DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK.

There was a time when I thought checking the headers of emails that looked like spam would give me enough information and keep me safe from fraudsters. This has changed. I am receiving emails from actual domain names of companies like Amazon and Paypal. People are receiving calls from customer service caller IDs of well known companies. Either fraudsters are becoming too smart or the companies are becoming too fixated on increasing their profits that they have stopped concentrating on probable loopholes in their systems.

The screenshot attached shows that the email is coming from Amazon and the proposed link (from the text of fake order no 192-773-7646) in the body of the email will take you to some other website to complete its heinous fraud.

I tried to find if Dean Clark was a writer. I found a few University professors by this name. There have been a few more prominent Dean Clarks.

1. Dean Clark was the voice of Berlioz in the Cartoon Movie "AristoCats" from 1970.
2. Dean Clark is a former ice hockey defenceman and head coach of the Prince George Cougars. Clark is also the former head coach of the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League.
3. Dean Clark (born 31 March 1980) is a retired footballer. He was originally a professional who made a handful of appearances for Brentford and then went on to play for a variety of teams local to north and west London, including making over one hundred appearances for Northwood.
4. Dean Clark (born 6 January 1968) is a New Zealand rugby league coach and former footballer who represented his country between 1989 and 1992.

So even though the email is not intended to be sent to me by amazon.com, I believe Amazon.com owes me a duty of care to secure its IT assets so that people do not use their domain names to send fraudster emails.

Dear Customer,

Your order has been successfully canceled. For your reference, here's a summary of your order:

You just canceled order 192-773-7646 placed on May 23, 2017.

Status: CANCELED

_____________________________________________________________________

1 "Perspective"; 2008, Special Edition
By: Dean Clark

Sold by: Amazon.com LLC

_____________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting Amazon.com!

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Amazon.com
Earth's Biggest Selection
http://www.amazon.com
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I must say the spam sometimes is blissful, as one ends up doing some research to get to the bottom of it and learns so many new things. "Be careful" is the key word. There are no free lunches. Nothing happens on its own. If you didnt order anything it will not arrive out of the blue. If you did not buy a lottery ticket, you will not win millions. If you dont know any one in Nigeria, no one will contact you to share their millions.

I recently decided to make a mobile app for Apple and thus I had to register on the Apple developer website and make payments with my credit card. Since then spammers are sending me spam emails, phishing attempts, SEO services, and sales offers etc etc, all vaguely related to my newly created apple ID.

Emails are coming from Paypal look alikes, Apple look alikes, Google look alikes, MSN look alikes, yahoo look alikes etc etc all relating and referring to my activity on Apple website. I never had this type of spam coming to me before my connection with apple. I wonder how do these spammers came to know, what I did on apple website just a few days ago. Amidst all this Apple forces you to use your real name while registering, asks you to send a piece of ID to verify, I dont know what and bla bla bla. Making you vulnerable to so much spam. On the other hand if I wanted to get a real piece of ID from apple or talk to someone at Apple, it will be so hard to get to a live person.

All this spam filling my inbox. Is it just a coincidence. I dont think so, and One wonders how is Apple the most secure platform in the world...

The spam email msg looks like this >>

Dear Customer,

We noticed some unusual activity on a credit card linked to your PayPal
account. As a security precaution we've place a limitation on your account.

Date and Time: May 19, 2017 05:32 PM +08:00 ( Western Indonesia Time )
IP: 198.125.336.22
Browser: iOS 10.1.2 AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko)

Case ID Number: PP-005-571-545-653
Don't authorize these changes? Review your Recently used devices now.
Apple Resolution Center


How you can help?

Please login Here to your account and we just need a little more
information about your account or latest transactions.

To help us with this and to see what you can and can't do with your account
until the issue is resolved, log in to your and follow the steps to confirm
your identity and recent account activity

Sincerely,

I have stopped buying Apple or Samsung. We are making all these untouchables so huge, they have started manipulating our lives. I bought a new smart phone for 250 dollars from a Chinese website. It has all that others offer. 128 GB of ROM, 6 GB of RAM, has an extremely nice finish and feel, allows 2 SIM cards, is light like a feather, works with a well known open source OS, and I will throw it away after a year and buy a new one, much better in specs. There is nothing so important that I need to save on my phone and that only Apple and Samsung can make secure and safe. I have no need to spend USD 1000 on a false sense of security...

Cashcrate offers surveys and tests. If you complete them, you receive a couple of cents. After having registered, I immediately started completing surveys. After 4-5, the site told me that it had no more surveys to offer. This is where the scam begins. They offer you 4-5 surveys per day. You complete them, thinking about that big money that should come anytime soon. But if you completed 4-5 surveys per day, it would take you months, perhaps even an entire year to reach 14-15 dollars, the minimum withdrawal sum. It's even possible to never reach that sum because there are days where they don't offer surveys at all. In my opinion, this is all done on purpose. In these surveys, you reveal a lot of personal information. 4-5 surveys of your personal information is a huge bonus for companies, which pay cashcrate to be as scummy as possible.

Don't use cashcrate. In fact, don't use any of those "win money for completing surveys". None of them are consistent, all of them make big promises and all of them keep your private information.

My facebook account was suddenly unavailable and when i tried to login they asked me to wait for a confirmation code on my phone number.
I never received this confirmation number and tried many times to contact Facebook support, then they asked me to confirm my identity by uploading my id (passport).
Unfortunately after following all the steps they asked me to do , my facebook account is still available , but am still receiving notifications from facebook about what s going on with my contact on my email adress.

Facebook is doing this to oblige people to open additional accounts, please be careful about your privacy and pictures you are sharing.

Globalmarket, like cashcrate, offers surveys for you to complete. From what I've read on other surveys, you need to complete between 60-100 surveys in order to make your first withdrawal. Now, one thing has to be taken into consideration: the personal information you put into these surveys are all shared to companies you will never hear from. After a couple of days, you will receive spam mail from these companies. Secondly, globalmarket provides you with no more than one survey per day, sometimes zero surveys for days. By the time you'll reach 14-15 dollars (making a first withdrawal possible), you'll have given so much information of yourself, these companies could literally clone you.

Stay away from Globalmarket. They pay you so little for your personal and precious information, you'll never reach your first withdrawal.

I purchased a computer from Dell in April of 2017. It had issues from the beginning with external monitors turning off during active use, and the display settings being randomly re-arranged or forgotten. Dell replaced the Thunderbolt Dock which was what the monitors are connected to. That did not solve the problem. I was asked to send the computer in to be fixed, which I delayed doing because that is a tremendous inconvenience to me, I work from and run a business from home with the computer they wanted me to return. I returned it, however, to be fixed because not only was the issue with the monitors still unresolved but after the latest Dell update I was forced to install, the computer would no longer allow me to log in.

I returned the computer, and got it back 10 days or so later. It was not fixed, I still couldn't even log in. I wrote back to support and told them they had not fixed the issue and was told to mail it to them again. I did so. Each time, they have been given specific instructions about what is wrong with it, which they should, of course, have in their files, but the consumer is asked to enter it all again anyway. The second time it was returned to me, nothing was ever done. The service description was blank, the computer still had the same issue. Then I went to the Better Business Bureau, and was contacted by a rep from Dell, and was asked to return the computer a third time for service. Against my better judgment, I sent it in, again. It was returned to me, AGAIN, STILL BROKEN.

The issue was not fixed at all, I knew within 30 seconds of turning it on that they had not fixed it. I told them I will not be returning it to them a 4th time (they have not offered to have it sent back again anyway), and that I want it replaced, as I have a full warranty on the system until the year anniversary of the date of sale, which is next month. They want to send me a used, refurbished computer, asking me to trust in their technicians to have fixed whatever was wrong with THIS one, which I will not accept. I didn't buy a used computer, I bought a new one that has never worked right. I have asked for a new replacement, or a refund, neither of which are being granted. So I spent over $2,000 on a computer with a full warranty that is unusable and Dell is incapable of fixing. I will never buy from them again.

we apologize for this error please send the computer in to be fixed. (got it back 10 days or so later. It was not fixed, I still couldn't even log in. I wrote back to support and told them they had not fixed the issue and was told to mail it to them again.)
then they offered to replace my new computer with a used, refurbished computer, asking me to trust in their technicians to fix whatever is wrong with THIS one.

please don't ever buy anything from Dell. they will waste your money and time, and that's what happened with me.

The moment I registered a domain even with extra cash for privacy on godaddy.com, I start receiving emails from spammers about the new domain name and how they can help in SEO, software, make money from the website etc. One has to think either "godaddy" is involved in dirty business or the company providing so called privacy.

Hi Sir/Madam,

As promised the scripts are ready.

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Note : Sir , If the above link does not open. Copy-Paste this link in your browser: symbol.live/2017/

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You are receiving this email because you downloaded our product and opted

Our mailing address is:

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All domain registrars and hosting companies run a network that helps spammers flourish and the probably make money out of it....

Symantec is cautioning users to be skeptical of emails claiming to be from Apple. This event presents scammers with more credibility when attempting to phish for Apple IDs, especially now that many users are concerned about the safety and security of their Apple IDs and devices. The emails adopt some of the following subject lines:

Please update your Apple account now
Apple – Your Account Is Not Confirmed
Please Verify Account Information For Your Apple ID
please verify the email address associated with your Apple ID

These subjects are used to trick users into opening emails, improving the odds that they may click on the links within them.

Apple Store

[Billing Fraud] Apple Store Recently Purchase Confirmation

Thank you for purchasing the following item : Space Qube

Order Number : MHDH6YMK37
Order Total : $34.99

- if you initiated this download , you can disregard this email , it was only sent to alert you in case you did not initiate the download yourself
- if you did not initiate this download , please cancel the transaction this purchase

To cancel this purchase Read your secure message by opening the attacment (pdf). you will be prompted to open (view) the file or save (download) it to your computer. for best results, save the file first, then open it in a Web browser.


Sincerely

Apple Support

If a user clicks on a link within the phishing email, they are directed to a Web page that on the surface looks like the real My Apple ID page. However, if users check the address bar, they will see a suspicious URL for a website that is not secure (HTTPS), which should raise suspicion.

Automattic is behind Wordpress and Akismet. Wordpress is a great application and is free. But Akismet is a bad move and you have to pay for it. Who knows and mind can think whatever. Why Wordpress can not the spam that Akismet stops.

Let the spam go to spam mail, and forget about Akismet. The problem is if you had Akismet and you stopped paying Akismet, your received spam will be trippled in numbers.

First of all, this is not working remotely, this is gambling remotely on the internet. The email lets you go to a gambling site using binary options. Binary options "are based on a simple 'yes' or 'no' proposition.

Investopedia described the binary options trading process in the U.S. thusly:
Binary may be trading at $42.50 (bid) and $44.50 (offer) at 1 p.m. If you buy the binary option right then you will pay $44.50, if you decide to sell right then you'll sell at $42.50.
Let's assume you decide to buy at $44.50. If at 1:30 p.m. the price of gold is above $1,250, your option expires and it becomes worth $100. You make a profit of $100 - $44.50 = $55.50 (less fees). This is called being "in the money."
But if the price of gold is below $1,250 at 1:30 p.m., the option expires at $0. Therefore you lose the $44.50 invested. This called "out of the money."
The bid and offer fluctuate until the option expires. You can close your position at any time before expiry to lock in a profit or a reduce a loss (compared to letting it expire out of the money).[9]
Every option settles at $100 or $0, $100 if the bet is correct, 0 if it is not.

We are looking for employees working remotely.

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This gambling service is not recommended on any popular blogs or forums and mainly advertised via email phishing campaigns, or in other words, the guys that keep sending you annoying offers all day to your emails. Gambling is always a risk, but please who would gamble like this...

We agreed he would broker my unusuals but instead he traded them on scrap.tf and sold the keys via Paypal to Merendas. I've been friends with this user for a long time, he had expensive stuff, backpack trust and I fell for it.

After I gave my items for brokering he deleted me and set his profile to private, then I checked his backpack and he had traded the unusuals on scrap.tf:
http://backpack.tf/item/2958827733
http://backpack.tf/item/5439676999
I then added Merendas who had the dude added in steam and told him to tell the scammer that I would report him and he admitted it.
First 3 screenshots are our chat logs, my trade history, my chat with Merendas and his chat with the scammer.​

Hello there. I am Alice, I DID run with his items, and I DO take full responsibility. It was a mistake that cant be undone, so I take full responsibility. No reason for me to hide, backpack.tf admins have banned me anyway so Steam rep is of no use to me.
Sorry Cookie once again, was a silly thing to do, good luck trading.
To be honest I would have, and am still tempted to pay you back for my humanities sake.

Please be careful when trading with such people as you might fell in a trap too!

I receive an email almost every day where people are impersonating as PayPal, threatening to close my account or to report a suspicious activity. If I was not aware of the ways spammers work, all my credit card limit would have been consumed by spammers in a single day.

We’ve limited your account.
As you know, your transaction was recently declined. Let us explain so we can make sure it doesn’t happen again. For your safety, we limit the amount of money that goes through your account. We do this to protect you, and us, from the rare occasions of fraud.

Here's how we can fix it:
• Tell us more about yourself, so we know you’re you.
• Link your credit card and use it for PayPal transactions.

Please update your information promptly so that you can continue to enjoy all the benefits of your paypal account. If you haven’t been able to complete your transaction yet, we can help you here.

Please do not reply to this email. We are unable to respond to inquiries sent to this address. For immediate answers to your questions, visit our Help Center by clicking "Help" located on any PayPal page or email.

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This is an HTML based email, and looks very authentic. Please do not trust them. The funny part is that the moment you use PayPal, you will receive this message as if some one inside PayPal is trying to make use of this information privy to paypal only

The email is just a crude phishing scam that is designed to steal your email account password.

Your account has been limited due to insufficient validation.

You are required to updated your account through the link below.


CONTINUE


We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Thanks for using Yahoo,we apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding
Yahoo Team.

Online criminals can collect the details you supplied and use them to hijack your email account. Once they have gained entry, they can use your account to send spam, scam, and malware emails in your name, and also use any private/ secret information thats in your inbox like bank account numbers etc.

What a re-assuring message. Mrs.Rachel H. Dolezal, <info@lee.com> is trying to lure you into sending info and later some fees, so that she can help you get some money from her lawyer. When you send the money and you will never hear from her again.

Good Day to you My Dear friend,

I am Mrs.Rachel H. Dolezal, I am a US citizen, 59 years Old. I reside here in Jacksonville Florida. My residential address is as follows. 11287-5 Estancia Villa Cir, Jacksonville, FL, 32246, United States, am thinking of relocating since I am now rich, I am one of those that took part in The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Oil Compensation award payment in Africa many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over US$26,000 while in the US, trying to get my payment all to no avail.

So I decided to travel down to the office of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC with all my compensation documents, AS I where been directed by the ( F B I) Director and US homeland security to contact and meet Barrister George Alex, who is a member of NNPC COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE and representative of the NNPC Oil Compensation award payment here in Florida, United States, so I contacted Barrister George Alex and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake.

He took me to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of $18.5 Million United States Dollar, Moreover,Barrister George Alex, showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive their payments and I saw your Name and email address as one of the beneficiaries, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you. I will advise you to contact Barrister George Alex. You have to contact him directly on this information below.

NNPC COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE
Name : Barrister George Alex(Esq)
Email: bargeorgealex000@gmail.com
Office Telephone: +176-0592-0436

You really have to stop dealing with those people that are contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.

The only money I paid after I met Barrister George Alex was just US$585 for the paper works, take note of that.

As soon as you contact him he will send you the payment information which you are to use in sending the payment to him in order for him to obtain the needed document from the court of law so that your fund can be transfer to you without any delay just the way mine was being transfer to me.

Send him the following details if you know you are ready to have your FUNDS so that as soon as he receive your information he will send to you the payment details for sending him the US$585 that is needed for him to get the document that is needed to make the transfer a successful one and that is that only payment i pay to Barrister George Alex and he help me in making sure that my funds is been transferring to me and i most say that you have to contact him so that he will help you the way he help me to Get my FUNDS without any further payment.

Fill Out the information to him if you are ready to get your FUNDS

Your Full Name:...............
Direct Phone:....................
Your Full Home Address:....................
Country.................
Occupation:.....................
Gender:.........
Age:..............

Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Barrister George Alex who is here in United States so that he can help you to Deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your transaction.

Thank You and Be Blessed.

Mrs.Rachel H. Dolezal.
11287-5 Estancia Villa Cir,
Jacksonville, FL, 32246e, FL, 32246

No one leaves money behind and then sends it to total strangers. This so called "Advance Fee Fraud" has become an industry in Nigeria, and the surrounding countries. Another common name is "419 fraud" after Section 419 of the Nigerian Penal code, the section that specifically prohibits this type of crime.

The looks of this nicely formatted HTML based email makes it look real and authentic, but all the links and buttons are not pointing to AMAZON, but to some other websites where you will enter your Amazon password and they will know it. Then they will use your username and password to make purchases and have them sent to unknown addresses/ PO boxes or mailboxes. Or even use your credit card to buy instant downloads which are not traceable afterwards.

Message From Customer Service
Hello,

You have entered wrong password for many times. As our security precautions, we need more informations from you. Once you've confirmed you own this account, we’ll walk you through some steps to make your account more secure

Is that you?
Yes No, Secure My Account

Your action is required to help us to protect you Amazon account securely.
Thank you.
Amazon.com

Always check the links and buttons and where they are pointing to....

These guys are getting the mailing address and phone number posted on "whois" database of your website/ domain and contacting you with a scary subject like your domain is expiring....

They are actually selling search engine optimisation, which is a primitive feature for promoting websites.

Notice#: 854065
Date: 12/22/2016

Your full name, your full company name, and your complete address will be written on the email sent to you.

You have 1 domain name registration pending.

This solicitation is to inform you that it's time to send in your search engine registration for feelcheated.com.

Failure to complete this order by 12/30/2016 may result in the cancellation of this offer (making it difficult for your customers to locate you, using search engines on the web). We do not register or renew domain names. We sell traffic generator software.

Act soon! This offer for feelcheated.com will expire on 12/30/2016. Act today!

Domain Name: Registration Period: Price: Term:
feelcheated.com 01/13/2017 to 01/13/2018 $64.00 1 Year

Instructions and Unsubscribe:
You have received this message because you elected to receive special notification offers. If you no longer wish to receive our notifications, please unsubscribe here or mail written request to Domain Seo Service Registration Corp., Miami Beach, FL 33139. If you have multiple accounts with us, you must opt out for each one individually in order to stop receiving Seo notices. We are a search engine optimization company. We do not register or renew domain names. We sell traffic generator software. This message is Can-Spam compliant. This is not a bill or an invoice. This is a Seo purchase offer. Your are under no obligation to pay the amount stated unless you accept this purchase offer. This message contains promotional material strictly along the guidelines of the Can-Spam act of 2003. We have distinctly mentioned the source mail-id of this email and also disclosed our subject lines. They are in no way misleading. Please do not reply to this email, as we are not able to respond to messages sent to this address.

Always be careful when reading these messages and clicking on links provided in these emails. I dont know how much are the http://www.seoservicely.org/ or godaddy or the people selling domain name privacy involved in these scams.

Misrepresentation is a crime. There is no free lunch. The world is being dragged into presumably free stuff at the cost of privacy and very very personal information. This personal information when collected by companies could be used for security, profiling, marketing etc. But amidst all that there are individuals trying to gain personal financial benefits or steal your ID etc.

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Be careful, when you see free stuff. There are no shortcuts in this life and there is no such thing as a free lunch....

Since the start of cloud computing, more and more big guns have found a way of eliminating customer service contacts from their websites. You better have a problem that everyone else has. If your problem is not available on discussion forums, you are out of luck. The chat robot will ask you for your problem in detail and then his artificial intelligence with choose some links from the discussion form and throw back at you. As I said, you should hope that your problem already exists and solutions are posted by someone for the exact same scenario. Microsoft thinks that no new scenario can exist.

Every year for some reason I have to wash my computer. Format the hard drive and install windows again. Get it authenticated. Since I believe in the ethics and morals of effort and reward, I buy all my software, instead of downloading from torrents. And when I have a problem I have to waste days and days finding a solution, cause there is no place where I can just call and get help.

And that's why I have downloaded OPENOFFICE and deleted Microsoft office from my system. Openoffice is free, open source, and it works fine.

At least, if there is no customer service, I have no one to blame, I am already getting it for free.

The chat robot, kept directing me to discussion forums, instead of providing a solution specific to my problem.

Install APACHE OPENOFFICE from http://www.openoffice.org/download/

When it comes to viruses, there are many questions and conspiracy theories;
1. Who has the time and money and energy to create intricate viruses, development of which requires high end resources in various countries; and which the largest gurus of the tech industry can not overcome or troubleshoot.
2. Why windows hides the file extensions on the email attachments, so that people could not differentiate between an attached zip file or an exe file or a pdf file.
3. Why operating systems do not force the users to backup their data.
4. Does it mean that selling security is the new business and thus the demand has to be created by disturbing the security first in the cyber world, as its happening in the real world.

Do not open emails from unknown sources. Control your curiosity and anxiety....;)

Recently many spam emails are being received from International organisations like the IMF, the world bank, some of which are copied below;

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Word Bank Group
1818 H Street, NW Washington,
DC 20433 USA

World Bank working for a World Free of Poverty

Dear email winner,

Your email address has won the total sum of US$950,000.00 from our current 2016 email draw. This program is to help build a World free of poverty.

Your secret draw serial number: EXH239943WB

Contact our Financial consultant with the below email and follow up with their instructions to claim your fund without any delay.

Claims Department email contact: wordbankfinancialdepart@consultant.com

Note: Do not forget to quote your serial number in your email to our Financial consultant to avoid double claims.
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Congratulations once again.

Thanks
World Bank working for a World Free of Poverty © 2016 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved.

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( I.M.F ) Head Office
Senior Resident Representative
9 Hon. Justice Mohammed Bello St.
Asokoro Cotonou-Benin Rep
Tel:+229-9848-3350
REF:-XVGNN82010
E-mail: RR-NG@imf.bj

Attention; Fund Beneficiary,

This is to intimate you of a very important information which will be of a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been experiencing in getting your long over due payment, due to excessive demand for money from you by both corrupt Bank officials and Courier Companies after which your fund remain unpaid to you. I am Mr. Ejike Efobi, a highly placed official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondences on the uneasy way which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier Companies/ Diplomat across Europe to Africa and Asia /London Uk. We have decided to put a stop to that and that is why I was appointed to handle your transaction here in Benin/Nigeria.

All Governmental and Non-Governmental prostates, NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Courier companies which have been in contact with you of late have been instructed to back off from your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them anymore since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now directly in charge of your Awarded payment. Your name appeared in our payment schedule list of beneficiaries that will receive their funds in this last quarter payment of the year because we only transfer fund seven times in a year according to our banking regulation. We apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any office now and pay attention to our office payment accordingly.

Now your new Payment, United nation Approval No; UN5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, Released Code No: 0763; Immediate (IMF) Telex confirmation No: -1114433; Secret Code No: XXTN013.

Your part payment inheritance fund is USD$15.750,000,00. Having received these vital payment numbers, therefore you are qualified now to received and confirm your payment with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) African Region immediately within the next 168hrs. We assure you that your payment will get to you as long as you follow my directives and instructions. We have decided to give you a CODE, THE CODE IS: 601. Please, any time you receive a mail with the name Mr.Ejike Efobi, check if there is CODE (VV*601) if the code is not written, please delete the message from your inbox!

You are hereby advised NOT to remit further payment to any institutions with respect to your transaction as your fund will be transferred to you directly from our source. I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk. Respond to this e-mail on (infomation.wecare@post.cz) with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released. Also call me as soon as you send the email so that you will be given an immediate response:Direct Hot-line: Call:+229-9848-3350

Regards,

Mr. Ejike Efobi (I.M.F).
Representative Benin.
Email..(infomation.wecare@post.cz)
Office ..<d-p-interpol@dgoh.org>

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Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America Founded: 1914, New York City, New York, United States ADDRESS: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001 Email:federalresverebak@qq.com


From the desk of Mr William C.Dudley


Attention Dear, Greetings From Federal Reserve Bank New York and United States Integration, am hereby to inform you that an alert come to us today from United Nation Official through the help of Federal Bureau of Investigation {FBI}. And according to the reporter, World bank organization together with United State Embassy Benin Republic, have approved to compensate You as a scam victim with the Sum of $25.5miilon, and your email address was found among the 10 lucky beneficiaries,meanwhile the fund will be release this week as soon as the beneficiary meetup/comply with the instruction/requirements.

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 10 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is willing to pay For the wire/transfer charge of $109 to have the fund delivered to her. Here is her information’s below.

Name: Mrs.Annette stillman
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative, you requested to fill and send this information’s for verification purpose so that your fund valued ($25.5millon) will be remitted in to your nominated bank account.

Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following

1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8. Address:
9. Working Id/ int’l Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number

Secondly,the law stated that every beneficiaries will take care of the expense base on your favorable means of receiving the only money you have to pay for the transfer to take place is just $109 being the approval payment certification from the American Embassy office in Benin Republic,and you are giving a limited time to send the payment.

As soon as the Payment information is received, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA,We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs. Annette Stillman if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you.


You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.

Mr. William C. Dudley

Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
Email:federalresverebak@qq.com

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Please be careful while responding to unsolicited emails

The moment you register a domain with godaddy without buying the godaddy's "privacy package", you will start receiving emails from spammers like Dean Young <domainone@registrationdomainsite.com>, info@mysearchingine.com, and many more, trying to sell you web design packages, search engine optimizations and what not.

Who gives the exact name of the person and the name of the website to these spammers within an hour of the domain name creation/ registration. Gotta be godaddy itself or the people who work at godaddy.

Buy the privacy package otherwise, godaddy will make sure your email starts bleeding spam like there is no tomorrow

My sister was playing this game which lead her to be scammed by this player named llcrusifyll. llcrusifyll asked to borrow an item from her and since llcrusifyll seemed friendly, my sister lend illcrusifyl the item. My sister was enraged because illcrusifyll took the item from her and so I helped my sister and reported it to the server.

Don't easily trust people internet especially when you just met them and think before you act. Don't be fooled by these scammers.