Tag: gaeilge

Spam email as Gaeilge pretending to come from a lottery winner won’t make you rich

November 20, 2023

A phishing email in Irish, pretending to come from Julie Leach, a 2015 US lottery winner and claiming it’s giving $500,000 to a few lucky individuals will only enrich scammers if you fall for it. In 2015 Julie Leach, a Michigan fiberglass factory employee, was visited by Lady Luck and won $310 million in Powerball … More Spam email as Gaeilge pretending to come from a lottery winner won’t make you rich

Another email scam as Gaeilge is doing the rounds

February 8, 2022

An email in Irish, coming from a South Korean email address, claims the sender has a video of the receiver viewing pornography and will make it public unless paid €1200 in bitcoin. These sort of “sextortion” letters are nothing new, we’ve warned about several like this and this before, but we’re always excited to see … More Another email scam as Gaeilge is doing the rounds