shopperpro

I received an email today - the title was ‘Henry & Chucks Loan Service’. What followed was a poorly written assurance that ‘we are not bank’ and ‘we loan to any pat of world’. The gist of the email was supposedly to offer me a loan at a paltry 3% interest. Is there anyone reading this who doesn’t immediately think that this is a phishing scam to get my personal information?

What scares me is that the economic times are so difficult right now that there are people who might actually consider applying for this ‘loan’ although frankly if I was entertaining the thought of procuring a loan for myself I would have difficulty trusting any institution with ‘chuck’ in the name. Scams like these hurt the people who can least afford it the most.

I don’t know what kind of list I’ve gotten on, but I am now getting about a dozen or so emails a week that are fraudulent. Most are of the ‘you’ve inherited money’ variety with a few ‘your account has been suspended’ for good measure. From my research these email scams have been floating around on the internet since 1997 at least. You know they wouldn’t still be around if they weren’t successful - I find this depressing that people are can be so blinded by greed that they ignore all common sense.