New Possible Email Phishing scam

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I thought I’d share another possible email phishing scam with all of you. I posted about it a few days back via my Instagram profile.

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I had this strange email land in my inbox a few minutes ago. It was from a maxwell Rich. The email address is rich. maxwell74182 via Gmail The email asks if there are Growth Derma rollers in stock. I assume this is a new phishing and or scam email. I'll give you an update when I get a chance. I'll post a screenshot of the email via my Facebook page. #linkinbio

A post shared by Vanessa A. (@nessa6297) on Jan 13, 2020 at 4:12pm PST

As I shared above the email was a bit strange since it was sent to my personal Gmail account. Yet it was asking if I had a product in stock.

The Email

The email was sent from a Richard Maxwell and the email address is the following:

rich.maxwell74182 via Gmail.

Here’s what gets me…

Here’s what gets me I’m not a company nor do I sell anything. I don’t even know what a Growth Derma Roller is. I just had to look it up. They seem to be used for beard growth. From what I just read they seem to use the derma rollers that have the microneedles.

I found this product kit via Amazon so you can see what I mean.

amzn_assoc_tracking_id = “rasp02-20”; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = “manual”; amzn_assoc_ad_type = “smart”; amzn_assoc_marketplace = “amazon”; amzn_assoc_region = “US”; amzn_assoc_design = “enhanced_links”; amzn_assoc_asins = “B07QQ54WBB”; amzn_assoc_placement = “adunit”; amzn_assoc_linkid = “61fd5b61d8a29379fb0fbc9a38388273”;

I also found this one too. From what I’ve seen they all seem to have a microneedle versus the smooth roller.

amzn_assoc_tracking_id = “rasp02-20”; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = “manual”; amzn_assoc_ad_type = “smart”; amzn_assoc_marketplace = “amazon”; amzn_assoc_region = “US”; amzn_assoc_design = “enhanced_links”; amzn_assoc_asins = “B07WRPZ18S”; amzn_assoc_placement = “adunit”; amzn_assoc_linkid = “5395ee60a13e381831fe4cccd89442e5”;

As someone who’s tried a microneedle roller, I for one can say I hope that works to grow hair. It wasn’t very comfortable and left my face red. If you’d like to learn more about that you can check out that video here

What I found

So I did a little digging into this email address and it seems that Mr. Maxwell has been sending out emails for some time now. I found a post from 2017. This one seems to be a bit of a new approach. I found a post from Scam Warners that a similar email address sent out an email regarding possible MoneyGram fraud. You can visit the link to see all the info.

Basically it stated that you could be compensated if you’d been a victim of money wiring fraud using MoneyGram. It was also shared in 2018. Besides that, I didn’t see much else. The name is what pops up the most in a Goggle search.

What you can do

If you have a Gmail account you can report the email as phishing and or spam. I reported it as phishing since I am not a seller nor do I need to deal with messages like these.

To report as a phishing email :

1. you open the email,
2. click the three dots in the top right-hand corner
3. select phishing on the drop-down list.

You can also block an email address follow the same steps as above and chose block from the dropdown list.

Lastly, you can just spam the email as well. As always don’t reply back to emails that you aren’t certain about or if the sender is unknown or if you get an email such as this one asking about sales requests.

I hope you found this helpful. Share any comments on the topic below.