Email Fraud Alert received from: Martin
I recently received an email with this subject line: You are owed $26,512 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:
Hey,
Can I ask you a question?
Are you interested in making money from home? Would you like to have a second income?
If so, what if I could show you a fool-proof way to turn $100 into $300 … over and over again,
as many times as you wanted. What’s more, you could start making money in 15 minutes from now.
Would you be interested in learning how?
Are you sick and tired of the endless 9 to 5 work day?
Fed up with not making the kind of money you want?
Sick of driving in rush hour traffic … getting late to a job where you have to listen to a boss yell orders at you …
all to make a paycheck that barely covers your bills?
If you can answer «Yes» to any or all of those …you just have to check this out.
Open the page now, and get the full story of how you can follow 3 simple steps and see 100% profits in an hour or less.
It’s a free video presentation and it will reveal the «binary code method» that is capable of making above $500 per day …
Just check it out now.
Warmest regards,
Matilda Raynolds
The above email was sent by “me@mydomain.com” from this email address: me@mydomain.com
I, Martin, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “me@mydomain.com”:
This person/persons is pretty desperate to snare a couple of suckers – I received a number of these emails in different disguises and all pointing to the same web site.
The mail above is one of the longer ones. The others said things like; “Earning without investment. No bees no honey – Try new working in the new direction! $15000” and “Earning without investment. $20000 a month – earn with your brains!” or “Additional earnings. Earn to buy the yacht of your dream! From $10000 a month!” or “Earning without investment. $20000 a month – earn with your head! Please visit our site.”
Looking at the headers of the e-mails sent they were reported as coming from: 212.152.228.180, 190.143.42.198, 190.232.167.228, 101.0.58.143 and 187.144.212.208
Such a concerted attempt to reach as many people as possible with this campaign that looks suspiciously like a bait and switch one can only lead to disappointment.