Fraudulent and malicious emails including phishing, scam, and spam attempts.
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I am MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. A Chinese-language donation fraud promising USD 100,800,000 through a foundation that does not exist, sent from a German online shop's info mailbox under a subject line that is only Re:.
We are contacting you regarding your expired domain registration. A WordPress.com-branded final warning sent from a German mail server subdomain, whose only button points at a throwaway subdomain of an Italian sports academy.
Please I'm consulting you for my personal investment plan. An advance-fee approach signed in the name of Ukraine's First Lady, sent from a car dealership's mailbox at a UAE internet provider, asking you to reply to a Gmail address.
You have Two (2) Messages Pending Delivery on Your E-mail Portal. A notice claiming to be your own domain's web administrator, sent from an animal-feed company's accounts mailbox, whose button opens a page the attacker uploaded into a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
Your payment has been successfully processed. Please find the attached SWIFT advice and supporting documentation for your records. Four lines of flawless business English, a Re: subject line for a conversation that never happened, and a 140 KB PDF that is the entire attack.
We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. A storage-full warning whose body is actually about a failed payment, sent from a domain on a top-level domain that does not exist, linking to a page parked inside a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
We are reaching out to inform you that your domain registration with WordPress.com is approaching its expiration date and requires renewal to maintain active status. A pixel-perfect WordPress.com notice sent from an Italian postmaster mailbox, whose only button points at a German health domain.
A firm in Germany needs a supplier of extracted materials from India for production in there plant. The same sender, the same dummy recipient, nineteen hours later, with every phrase swapped for a synonym.
Our firm in Germany needs a supplier of extracts materials from India, reply for details. Fifteen words, no company name, no signature, sent from a free Polish mailbox to somebody else's address.
Judicial Notice. Case Matter: Tax Dispute / Financeira. Investigating Authority: Renda Tax Department, Government of India. A summons from a tax authority that does not exist, sent from a free Outlook mailbox, still carrying the Portuguese words of the template it was copied from.
