I received an email yesterday from “Western Union Money Transfer®” regarding US$1 million pending transfer to me and it purportedly could only be done through the Bangkok office. Wow, I am going to be an American dollar millionairess soon! Obviously, this is a scam mail. Who would want to send out a million dollars to […]

I have written quite a lot of posts on the kind of phishing emails that I have received over time. They included those from eBay, PayPal, various US banks and of course, those purportedly from local Malaysian banks which I could tell originated from overseas. I mentioned before that I wished that these companies would […]

I received a phishing email yesterday purportedly from PayPal claiming that my PayPal account has been limited. Upon closer inspection, the email was from services@paypall.com, with double L. Even though the email was in HTML format and came inclusive of all PayPal images that made it look as if it’s an legitimate PayPal official email, […]

I received an email message today from ICICI Bank with the subject line "MayBank – Important Message" which is obviously a phishing attempt. Besides the fact that this email was sent to my "junk" email address which is not on file with Maybank, as far as I know, Maybank does not call itself MayBank. This […]

A couple of days ago, I received a phishing email from “Maybank”. Not too long ago, I also received emails from “CIMB Clicks”. As you can see, I have placed the names of banks in inverted commas because these emails were not actually from them but from scammers, fraudsters, phishers and what-not trying to harvest […]

If you have followed my blog since the end of last year, you would have read my posts on my participation in Buy cheap Viagra online CIMB Save & Invest campaign. Yes, I participated on October, November and December 2008. Recently, many people have asked me what the outcome of the contest is. There was […]

If you had occasion to contact the Customer Service department of PayPal, you would have been asked to reply to a few short questions because PayPal wants to know how their Customer service staff handled your issue. “PayPal Email Handling Opinion Needed” is the title of such email and I tell you, I mostly give […]