Woohoo - $5,000,000 left to me in a will!

I'm not sure why but for the last few weeks I have been getting an amazing amount of phishing emails all telling me about the huge amounts of money that have been left to me in the wills of various long-lost relatives as well as other old classics like the Nigerian money transfer scam.

They are all instantly recognisable to me as scams (but I'm sure there will be some people caught out by them). You can usually tell by checking out the actual email address of the sender.

A lot of them are also in terrible English and start with things like "Hello Dear" (which actually reminded me of some of the WA comment bandits!)

However in the last few days I have noticed some much more clever and sinister phishing emails which rather than appealing to greed like the other ones, are appealing to the kind nature of the recipient. They are asking for support for various charities in the run up to Christmas.

As someone who supports a variety of charities I was nearly caught by one today which claimed to be from a UK animal rescue charity - which is a cause I support. I almost clicked on the link but thankfully remembered to check at the last minute and realised it was a phishing scam.

Just a friendly warning to be on the lookout for these types of scams as this seems to be a new breed of them and they are using people's generosity at this holiday season to try to snare the unwary.

Kind Regards

Dave

PS: remember never to click a link in an email. If you want to go to a particular site then either type the url into your browser or search for it in Google (other search engines are available)