I received a rather convincing looking email from Company House the other day indicating that someone had made a complaint about my company. Naturally suspicious of all emails I noticed that the link in the email didn’t go the correct url for Company House and looked it up in Google. I came across the following…
Category: Scams
A New Petrol Scam?
I was alerted to this scam by a relative who recently experienced it at our local Sainsbury’s. They had filled up their modest sized family car and queued to pay for their petrol, only to find it has already been paid for. Their bill which came to just over £30 had it seemed been paid…
Crackdown on Energy Firms Door Step Selling?
According to this article Consumer Focus is calling for energy firms to abandon doorstep cold calls for a three month period. The watchdog is asking the energy firms to make the changes voluntarily but if they don’t may ask the regulator Ofgem to legally require suppliers to take action. Personally I think all cold calling…
Watch Out for Fake Wine
If you are partial to a bottle of Jacobs Creek then you might want to check the label more carefully. According to this article there have been a number of cases of fake wine being sold under the label. The wine which comes from China has been sold to retailers for £2.00 a bottle. It…
Microsoft Remote Assistance Cold Calling Scam
I was alerted to this scam when my mother received a phone call. The call was from what sounded like an Indian call centre and was someone claiming they worked for Microsoft. They told my mother that they were calling because they were aware she was having problems with her computer and that she had…
New Wave of Amazon Phishing Emails
I receive anything up to 3,000 spam emails in a day so am always interested to see the latest trends. Recently it seems that the majority of my junk mail is made up of emails that look like they are from Amazon. Looking at my spam mail these tend to follow two formats. Either they…
Wine Lovers Duped by Vineyard Scam
Wine lovers who thought they were investing in new age wine have been duped by a bogus scheme. They were offered what they thought was a chance to buy new age wine for £100 a bottle. The wine would then be kept for them for seven years whilst it matured and they would be sent…
Facebook Spam Emails
I get several thousand spam messages a day so tend to notice the latest trends. It seems that emails pretending to be from Facebook are becoming more popular at the moment and whilst other spam does still outnumber them, I am currently getting a few hundred a day. The emails tend to ask you to…
Bank Account Compromised Again
Back in November 2007 my bank account was compromised causing me all sorts of problems and meaning I had to cancel all my cards and have new ones issued. On that occasion I was alerted when I noticed some Paypal transactions which didn’t appear on my Paypal account but which had been debited from bank…
Online Fraud at Highest Ever Level
According to this article online fraud is at its highest ever level with seven out of ten internet users regularly seeing so called e-scams in their inboxes over the last twelve months. Around 80 per cent of users have received fake banking emails or fake online shopping emails. 70 per cent have been targeted by…