Email Attacks — 84 posts

We are looking for pricing for an upcoming project and would want to confirm your availability to submit a quote. A request for a quote that names no project, no product and no company, signed by a procurement specialist who names no employer, and sent from an address that runs to 276 characters, most of them the tracking code from a billing email's link, at a domain with a home-care service's name.

We couldn't process your ChatGPT subscription. Please settle the outstanding balance to keep your access active. The notice that says so is signed The OpenAI Team, but it comes from a webmaster address under a web host's temporary site name that no longer exists, names no account, no plan and no card, wears a logo that is not OpenAI's, and sends its payment button through a Google redirect that does not say where it leads.

Discrepancies have been identified during the review of your company's tax records. That sentence is almost all there is to the fourth draft of a forged Income Tax Department notice this archive has followed since August. Every section number, office, officer's name and amount that the earlier drafts quoted is gone; the 72-hour clock and the link remain. The link asks for a ZIP archive named like a PDF, on a name handed out under eu.cc, and when the recipient detonated it in a secured sandbox, the server sent back a page instead: Access Denied. Hosting/VPN IP detected. Only real users are allowed.

I am a retired banker currently working as a consultant with established funding partners and financial institutions specializing in investment and project financing. A cold funding offer written to investors, borrowers and brokers at once: it names no bank, no partner, no institution, no firm and no figure, is signed with a name and nothing else, and came from a domain that its registrar has suspended.

This is a friendly reminder that your domain <domain> is due for renewal on 29th Septemeber 2026. The notice that says so wears Squarespace's name spelled with a look-alike letter, comes from a domain registered in May that has no website, gives three different deadlines, and sends its renewal button through a Google short link — about a domain the public registry shows is paid up until 2033.

We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. Five weeks after the copy analysed in August, the same storage-full template arrives again — word for word, subscription number included — with a new sender on a top-level domain that does not exist, a new numbered relay on a new Indonesian domain, a new Google Cloud Storage bucket, and the whole message turned into a single link.

I'm Dr Brown from the UK. Permit to inform you about to partner with us in supplying raw materials. Eleven days after the first draft, the same persona writes again: three sentences from a different free Gmail account, blind-copied with the To line left empty, under a subject of two letters, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

I'm Dr. Brown from the UK. I have a discuss with you about business supply of materials to our company for production. Three sentences from a free Gmail address that shares nothing with the name it displays, blind-copied with the To line left empty, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

A top VIP in one of the African Countries is in dire need of an entrepreneur or fund manager that can confidently receive and manage the sum of US$5.2 Billion. Written as a reply, sent from a Gmail address that misspells its own sender's surname, and offering a nameless fortune to whoever reads a company mailbox, on two conditions: that they own a company, and that the company has a bank account for the money to go into.

COURT NOTICE. Case Number: [ITD/2026/ND/458721]. Hearing Date: September 17, 2026. Time: 10:30 AM. The 4 September court notice sent again from a new Outlook mailbox — its case number unchanged, its link moved to a domain that its registrar has since put on hold, and its hearing set for a time that had passed two and a half hours before the email arrived.