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Scam Email Archive

70 real scam, phishing and fraud emails, each reproduced in full and dissected. To check a message in your own inbox, search this page for its subject line (Ctrl/⌘+F), or look up the company it claims to come from. Every entry opens the complete email, the red flags, and how the scam plays out.

By impersonated party​

The organisation or person whose identity the email borrows. None of them sent these messages.

Government bodies

Income Tax Department (India) 7 emails​

Indian police, CBI and Intelligence Bureau 6 emails​

Companies and brands

WordPress.com 2 emails​

Xerox 2 emails​

ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) 1 email​

DocuSign 1 email​

Facebook 1 email​

FedEx 1 email​

Intuit QuickBooks 1 email​

Larsen & Toubro 1 email​

MetaMask 1 email​

National Oil Corporation (Libya) 1 email​

Ninja (SharkNinja) 1 email​

Pfizer 1 email​

Schaeffler / FAG Foundation 1 email​

State Bank of India (SBI) 1 email​

Stripe 1 email​

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) 1 email​

United Nations 1 email​

VitalThings AS 1 email​

Woodside Energy 1 email​

Real people

Cheng "Charlie" Saephan (Powerball winner) 1 email​

MacKenzie Scott 1 email​

Olena Zelenska 1 email​

Stefano Pessina 1 email​

No real organisation or person impersonated​

Fictitious personas, invented companies and anonymous senders.

By scam type​

Phishing 27​

Scams 20​

Fraud 14​

Fake / impersonation 7​

Extortion 2​

By technique and target

By subject line​

The exact subject line as received, A–Z. Attackers reuse subject lines across campaigns, so a match here is a strong signal.

No subject line recorded

By year​

2026 26​

2025 13​

2024 31​