I sometimes can’t stop to ask myself if the scammers are actually human beings with feelings of loss and tragedy and if they have the same concerns as the normal citizens. I guess they are not, because otherwise you can’t explain this: Hello friend, I intend to give out some portion of my wealth […]
As a premiere, I received the first Nigerian Scam on XING. It is quite common to receive such requests on LinkedIn, but for me it is the first time on XING. This is the text: Hello Sorin Mustaca, I have partners who I front for to assist source for a foreign partner who could be […]
I sometimes laugh of these scammers, but sometimes I am quit amazed of their capability to adapt to the spam filters. My Google account caught this spam: In text, this is : Good Day, I am Mr. Ming Yang,Director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,Hong Kong.I am here-by seeking your […]
Nigerian scams are indeed getting smarter
There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]
Usually we are used to see long emails when we talk about Nigerian Scams. But, this one is one line long. See the image.
I am trying to sell my car and I posted it on Autoscout24.de. 90% of the telephone calls I received were from handlers, all of them not germans. About half were turks and the rest maybe russians and chechs/slovacs. However, I received also 2 emails and two SMS messages. The emails were in English and […]
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