Spam and Attempted Fraud

Due to the vast amount of fraudulent requests and spam we get, we've broken the messages down into different months. Enjoy.

• January 2005
• December 2004
• November 2004
• October 2004
• up to September 2004

Some clues as to the most common types of scam emai.

• Pretty much anything from Africa, especially Nigeria, Uganda and Sierra Leon is fraudulent.
• Many messages claiming to be from Singapore are, in fact, from Indonesia. Where Singapore is generally regarded as a safe place to do business, Indonesia appears to be riddled with fraud.
• Look out for ridiculous names, chronic mis-spelling or a clear lack of understanding of the products.
• If in doubt, check out the source IP of the mail message. SpamCop has a good page how to reveal all the information in your mail headers.. look for the earliest mentioned IP address and feed it into a lookup service like Whois.sc to get more information. This technique requires some practice, but will often reveal that the email from "London" or "New York" actually comes from Lagos.