Which scams are doing the rounds at the moment?

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I keep getting an email saying Your Paypal account has been suspended

and to click on a link to Verify my details

Seems to be a spate of recorded messages saying they are HMRC and there's a warrant out for your arrest.

I've had that one as well.

I keep getting emails about my itunes account behind suspended

I have had both of these.

HMRC calls, and "I've hacked your computer and videod you wanking" emails seem to be the main bulk for the last three months. Occasional spams pretending to be banks, Apple, Paypal but nothing concerted.

I have a combination of hot girls who want to sleep with me, spam in German which invite me to click here to say I've received the email, clairvoyants offering to help me find 'Nadine Burr's' future (not my name. Sent to [my name] email address but not addressed to me), PayPal, eBay and gmail all want me to update my account and FedEx, UPS and Hermes all want me to click here to arrange the delivery of a package.

Matters are complicated by my email address being mistakenly put into forms by Gingernauts across the planet, because they forget to put the numbers into theirs.

I've blocked emails meant for Gingernauts across America and Ireland if I can't unsubscribe from them.

The Knights of St Columba (Catholicism's answer to the Freemasons and the KKK if the emails and pictures are anything to go by), shopping offers from shops I've never heard of with prices in $ and €, Groupon offers in € and American luxury hotels and spas.

I've Google stalked my namesakes across the planet.

Apparently my paypal account will be locked if I don’t contact them within 12 hours
Which is pretty impressive since I don’t have a Paypal account

Apparently my paypal account will be locked if I don’t contact them within 12 hours
Which is pretty impressive since I don’t have a Paypal account

I get the same sort of thing with my (non-existent) Apple account. Not to mention the recent spate of nosey-parkers videoing me doing unspeakable things while supposedly watching porn on my laptop, which has had a piece of bleck paper sellotaped over the (turned-off) camera ever since I got it.

Recent popular one seems to be the 'I've recorded you watching porn'

Or as Quinions said. NOrmally they add some old password of yours they've gotten their hands on, to convince you it's legit.

I also saw a nice ad for an apartment in my city, claiming it's conveniently close to tube. Our city does not have tube..

Got emailed another Apple Inc online statement today. Very peculiar considering I am quite possibly the last person in Britain left who has never owned an Apple device!

There's one pretending to be from BT Technical Dept, we are about to close your internet connection because of suspicious activity, please press one immediately.

I had an email about 'suspicious activity' being carried out on my Barclay's Bank account,and saying that I had to 'move my money to a safe account simply by calling this number'. I knew it was a scam as I don't have a Barclay's Bank account.

I've had an email saying my direct debit has failed so my TV licence is not valid. Strange as the amount they say I owe doesn't match the amount I actually pay, or a multiple thereof and when I log on to the genuine tv license website, it says everything is as it should be.

I’ve had the TV licence one too.

I had a tv license one yesterday. Telling me I had a refund she and "all" I had to do was give them my credit card details...

@cricketmum84 I got that yesterday too 😂

We got the same 'BT' call as Tony2.

The tax refund email

I keep getting dodgy emails from a "Matt Dennis".
Also weirdly got a text message from EE last night saying I had an MMS from my Brother (lets call him Brother 1) and to click on the link to retrieve. When i spoke to Brother 1 about it, he said" No, Brother 2 sent it".So I asked Brother 2. He said he hadn't sent anything. Brother 1 and I exchanged screen shots of the text messages we received, and they were basically identical, except Brother 1 received from Brother 2, and me from Brother 1. BIZARRE.

This time of year in the lead up to Christmas also sees an increase in "missed parcel" scams.

Scammers hand post an official looking courier card or one very similar to a Royal Mail type card (see photo) which gives a sorry we missed you/ we tried to deliver your parcel type of message and it gives a telephone number to ring to rearrange delivery. The telephone number is a premium rate number that costs £££'s if you call it.

There is also a similar type of scam via email that looks like it has been sent from popular courier businesses eg Yodel. It instructs you to try to download a missed parcel label that has a reference number on for you to quote when you contact the courier.