SCAM Email – Subject: EMERGENCY

Last week I received an Email send by a friend of mine. Well at least that what I thought when I first saw the Email. In the Subject a big EMERGENCY. I knew that my friend had some big projects on her plate and thought she might really need my help, but than I read the text.

I saw this kind of Emails before and knew immediately that this was a Scam Email. Someone hijacked her Email account. I called her and told her what just happened. She mentioned that she just recently changed her password and I advised her to do it again, but from a different computer, because the one she used might had a spy on it.

I also told her to contact her friends to inform them that she didn’t sent out this Email. You never know who may fall for it.

Junk Email – Subject: “Information from BBB, id…”

Today I received two Emails pretending to be from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). The BBB is a non profit organization, fighting against scams, not just in and from the internet. If you have problems with a company you can contact the BBB and file a complain. You can get more information about the BBB by following this link http://www.bbb.org

But coming back to the Emails I received. Both Emails had the BBB Logo as well as an attachment. The attachment was a ZIP file and after opening the ZIP a EXE file was revealed.

Please find here the text of those Emails.

Lotto SCAM Email – Subject: Your Email Won Congratulations!!!

This might not be the newest and for sure not the most original version of an old and familiar scam, but one I received the first time so far. Or let say this is the first time I noticed that Email.

I guess we are all familiar with that Email from someone, living in another country and need our help to transfer a gazillion dollars. That we will get of course a share, because of all the trouble we have to go through, is mentioned in those Emails as well and of course out of the question. But what is the trick behind that? Well the scam has different faces.

PayPal SCAM Email – Subject: You have 1 unread Message

I received today another SCAM Email and hope that many of you will share this post, so that we can secure that nobody is falling for this trick. The Email pretend to be from PayPal, asking you to verify your account details, because your account is “locked”.

If you follow the link in that Email you will be forwarded to a website that looks very much like the regular PayPal website. You will find the Username and Login field and everything else looks also like the real site, only thing is, it is not the original PayPal site. The links on that fake PayPal website are not working and if you click on them you will get a message that says:

“While your account is limited accessing this page may be denied. Successful login will display the Security Verification page“

SCAM Email – Subject: Your Invitation Into Our Global Directory

I received another of those business leader scam Emails. This time sent from Jason Peterson, the Vice President, Research Division of Business Registry of Who’s Who. But before I am posting his Email I would like to give you some details on the Domain I found when I was doing my research. In the Email is a link to this site http://b2bregistry.net/html.php/135114/4127626 that leads you to this Domain http://businessregistryofwhoswho.com/ (I hope you understand that I am not actually linking to those sites)

Here are some interesting facts. The Domain was created on the 25th April 2011 and updated on the 9th June 2011. So it looks like the company / organization is not that long in business.

The Domain is as well registered with a Domain protection service,
so that you can not see who is the owner of the domain. This makes it a bit more complicated to contact the owner, because you have to talk to the provider first.

My question is, does a real and big organization, like they pretend to be, has to do that?