Email Fraud Alert received from: Mike
I recently received an email with this subject line: Learn how to make hundreds of backs each day. and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
If you can’t read this email, please view it online http://new.macartu.cn/
Now you can start rading Forex without investing money! Forex contests – start from zero! Link for you
The above email was sent by “Kenneth” from this email address: fveoppabt@hmsoldies.org.uk
I, Mike, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Kenneth”:
Ordinarily I just consign these mails to the Trash, BUT, I was intrigued by ‘Kenneth’s’ inability to spell two of the keywords in his pitch; backs (bUcks) and rading (Trading). Looking a bit deeper and following the link to the macartu.cn ‘web site’ I saw that it masquerades as Yahoo Finance with links to the ‘bots’.
A Google search for the title of the ‘article’ on macartu.cn – http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Using+technology+to+beat+the+market.+How+people+are+getting+rich+by+using+%27bots%27+to+make+them+money+while+they+sleep%22 – reveals only ONE result from http://archive.is/iZygu which was pulled from another presumed phishing site: s2400.ru in April 2015.
Conclusion: You would not be safe buying this or giving these guys any of your details.
The “hero” of the story, Daniel Clark from Eleanor Roosevelt High School is not found using Google or Facebook either.
An extract from the sales pitch:
Is it possible to beat the stock market? A tech savy college dropout may have cracked the code to building wealth by letting computers do all the work for you.
Daniel Clark was typical average American high school student. He graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School with plans on going to Columbia University. Soon after highschool Daniel dropped everything to become a day trader.
“My parents were outraged that I didn’t want to go to college anymore and that I wanted to become a day trader”. Daniel says his parents were one week away from kicking him out of the house, when he showed them his bank account. “There was over $830,000 in my account at the time. My parents couldn’t believe it. They thought I stole the money!”.
After explaining how Daniel had been day trading for the past 6 months to make that money, his parents reluctantly agreed to let Daniel continue what he was doing, but things didn’t work out he would have to go back to college.
It only took another 2 months to convince Daniels parents this was real. “At 19 I was a millionaire. It was a surreal feeling seeing that much money in my bank account. It was a dream come true”.
Now 5 years later, Daniel currently has his own team (mostly close friends) working from a swank office building in Manhattan. He’s making more money than he ever dreamed of having and is enjoying life to the fullest. So how did he do it?