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Real Scam Emails, Explained.

Real scam and phishing emails, reproduced and explained

Secure Techie is an archive of real scam, phishing and fraud emails. Each one is reproduced in full, then dissected red flag by red flag — the sender, the impersonated organisation, the payload and how the scam plays out — so you can recognise the same message when it lands in your inbox.

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70Scam Emails Dissected
25Organisations & People Impersonated
6Threat Categories

Threat Categories

Every analysis is filed under one of these, and under the organisation it impersonates in the archive

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Phishing

Fake login pages, bogus account alerts and malicious attachments built to steal passwords or plant malware.

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Scams

Bogus fees, fake domain disputes, invented court orders and other commercial cons aimed at your wallet.

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Fraud

Advance-fee schemes: fake donations, inheritances, investors and supply contracts that end in an upfront payment.

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Fake & Impersonation

Messages wearing a real brand, agency or executive's name, where the impersonation itself is the payload.

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Extortion

Sextortion and blackmail emails demanding cryptocurrency under the threat of exposure.

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Job Scams

Fake offers, interview letters and recruitment emails that target job seekers with fees and data requests.

How It Works

The full process, including what we never touch, is on the methodology page

01

We Receive the Email

Readers and our own inboxes supply the specimens. We keep the headers, the body and a screenshot exactly as received.

02

We Reproduce It in Full

The complete message is published verbatim, typos and all, with the recipient's details removed. Links and attachments are never opened.

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We Dissect the Red Flags

Sender domain, reply-to, registry records, the claims in the text and the payload — each flag is tied to evidence in the message itself.

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We Explain How It Plays Out

How the scam escalates if you reply, what to do now, and how to verify through a channel the attacker does not control.

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