Scam email warning: fake Mirror websites

Yes i’ve had the Martin Lewis Mirror email several times in last three or four weeks. I know it’s a scam thanks to Which magazine, but it’s really worrying as is so realistic and can see why people would be taken in by it, if they are unaware.

I agree with William. Why oh why do the search engines not do more to stop this sort of thing. There is nowhere near enough vetting before stuff goes on a search engine. And why do the spoof websites always appear at the top. Could it be that they pay the most to be first in the line?

I was taken in by one of these about three months ago. Usually I can spot a fake email a mile off, but this one appeared to have been sent by a friend of mine and just said something to the effect of, “This is interesting:” and a link. I clicked the link because I thought my friend had sent it. Fortunately I didn’t lose any money, mainly because to send me material about Bitcoin would be completely out of character for the friend whose name was in the sent field so I realised it was a scam when I saw it.

I’m not sure I’d be taken in by the above. I know the standard of written English has gone down in published material over the past thirty years or so. This has more than grammatical errors, however, in that it doesn’t obey British norms and feels awkward. It feels as though it’s a semi-competent translation rather than something written by a British national who lives here. Thanks for flagging this up, Which?!

Whether the ad is fake or not, Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies are unregulated and highly speculative investments.
Most people (even those in IT) sadly don’t recognize that the Bitcoin blockchain technology is flawed and ultimately doomed.
Just because a celebrity endorses something is no reason to buy it. People need to use their brains.
I received bad advice from a financial advisor about *not* making additional contributions to a government final-salary pension scheme back in 2002, as it was “very expensive” to buy past added years. Thank God we didn’t listen and can thing for ourselves.

There is at present no sufficient deterant to stop these financial scams, few prosecutions and no really hard prison time.

On a similar theme Classic fm is running a commercial for a PPI claims company using a voice which, I am sure is no coincidence, sounds just like Martin Lewis.

Part of the solation is to charge the OWNERS and Directors with adding and abetting the relevant crime. Start fining them the maximum and give send them to prison sentence that the law allows, plus make them pay back the total amount scammed and also the full cost of prosecuting them and within next to no time the vast majority of these scams will stop.

I think Martin Lewis is probably the one person I’ve not seen in one of these phoney Mirror things. Most of them feature either guests or the presenters of ITV’s morning show, so maybe ITV should be doing something about it as well. They’ve all but one been about Bitcoin, the odd one out was about another digital currency.

The first one was pretty convincing, but the later ones, with different personalities all making the same quotations began getting suspicious very quickly.