Beware of These Email Scams Hitting Your Inboxes

Another weekend away from the office and when I arrive Monday morning, my email inbox is flooded with phishing emails. Phishing emails are emails that are intended to collect personal information about you such as account numbers, passwords, your social security numbers and your banking information. Most of them are poorly written and you can tell right away that they are email scams.

Now why do people send these messages? Because obviously they are working. There are people out there who are looking for the next big payday and making the easy buck, so they send these email senders their information. And what do they end up with? An empty bank account, a stolen identity, and usually a large sum of money that they are responsible for repaying.

The reason for this article is to help people recognize the email scams that are coming into your email inboxes and knowing what to look for and realize that they are just scams. Below you will see four examples of scam/phishing emails that I received in my inbox over the weekend. DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAMS. Take note that examples two and four seem to be from actual business entities that we've heard of. But don't fall for it, you can easily tell by the wording of the email message that it is a scam. Remember if it is too good to be true, then it usually is.

Example 1

SENDER: barr
SUBJECT: with the Compliment of the day,
BODY:


BROWN CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS
Holbrook House
Great Queen St,
London,

Compliment of the day,

I am Barr.James Brown from London,the attorney to late Mike Matsushita,A Vietnamese-American,I got your contact while i was conducting a research through the internet.
I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us,I supposed to have carried this out before now,but i had an accident that kept me hospitalised for months.But i thank God i am in good health and very strong for this transaction now.

My client (late Mike Matsushita) who unfortunately lost his life in the London July 7 bomb blast which claimed fifty two lives and left hundreds injured, deposited the sum of 18million British pounds,in National Westminster Bank London.