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Fidelity Life and who?

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Woman on phoneAnother email phishing scam? Maybe I’m just being touchy, but lately I seem to be getting a lot more spam targeted at insurance companies. This means either:

A) The spammers think I’m getting old OR

B) The spammers are stupid

While the reality may be closer to Option A, I prefer to believe in Option B. Therefore, I can merrily go about my day safe in the belief that even twenty-somethings are getting the same offers to obtain their life insurance, health insurance, and car insurance from  complete strangers whose only qualification is that they somehow obtained my email address from a mailing list.

Today’s first insurance email was for “Fidelity Life and eCoverage.” A quick visual inspection shows this one is perfect—until you scroll down to the bottom of the email. Oops. That’s where we find a good deal of gibberish: “friends, rip for she her Telegraph. she 20 not Earlier topless the she every well. is,” a underweight?’Sofia’s this is the Kerr gratitude. . .”

Who, exactly, is “Fidelity Life and eCoverage?” In my case, it’s Mike Prescott out of San Diego who has a server in Bucharest. In reality, it’s a nonexistent company. This phishing site’s offer for “$250k of life insurance as low as $15 per month” stinks more than a load of three-day-old fish. Unlike the photo on this post, there’s no friendly person waiting to help you. It’s more like, waiting to take you. Don’t fall for this email scam and remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.[tweetthis]Get the scoop on the #fidelity email scam[/tweetthis]

 

About Terry

I started out as a skip tracer. Just in case you don’t know, that’s the guy who finds the people who don’t want to be found. It was the little things—getting paid to lie—that made skip tracing the fun part of the job.

Those years of chasing deadbeats taught me many valuable life lessons, such as liars come from all walks of life, and always keep your car in the garage.

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  1. Mr Colin B. Beresford MIMechE says

    Hi, I’m from the UK but that doesn’t matter. I have been receiving a lot of these emails from Fidelity also. I have unsubscribed from them and I now seem to be getting more !! Is there a way to block the spam in Gmail ? Be great if some kind soul could impart that info to me. Peace

    • Terry says

      Hi Colin, you would have to consult Google’s help to find out how to block spam in Gmail. What I can tell you is you should never unsubscribe from these emails unless you are positive they are from the real source. Virtually all of this spam does not have anything to do with Fidelity or the other companies who are used as lures in these scams. Also, I’m not sure if you’re protected by the GDPR, but you might want to look into options brought about by that change in law.

  2. Philip says

    I just recently started to get them as well. But its not only Fidelity Life and eCoverage, its USAFinancialTrust, ZippyLoan, CareerBuiIder, Walgreen’s, 100 Lenders and SUV Great Rates. The sheer amount of e-mails I get in my one account are up to around 50 a day. 50 a day! Its insane. …and I’m not even from the US.

    Thanks to you I now know who’s responsible for it. Thank you for your service to the public.

  3. Nellie Gomez says

    Thanks, Terry, sometimes we become stagnent and forget about the creeps out there.
    Nellie

  5. Lisa says

    I recently bought a house and both my husband and I have been receiving a flood of emails like this. I’ve also received calls from semi-shady home service providers. Not sure what list we got on, but it’s definitely frustrating.

  6. MW says

    Really appreciate the info! I almost followed up on a life ins. offer that looked pretty good — (OK, too good) Then I took a better look at the ‘sender’: eCoverage & Fidelity Life . The “em” in …@jcpennyem.com caught my eye/looked a little strange. Glad I poked around & found your site before I bit the bait! Thanks.

  7. admin says

    Very good observations Dave. Thanks for passing along the info. I frequently check domain registrations, so I’m going to be watching for “Mike” in the future to see if he shows up.

  9. Dave says

    I have been hot hard over the last few weeks by non-stop SPAM/PHISH. Because most of it is via enom.com and namecheap registrations and they are syaing they can’t do anything as they are just the resellers I have done a lot more research. “MIKE PRESCOTT” is the registered owner of almost all of these bogus domains. So this is actually of intrest because I can clearly see a common thread – so these register services should simply check for domains being registered to this “Mike Prescott” and the address of 510 1ST AVE, SAN DIEGO
    CA, 92101

    The other one that comes up now are hosting services and domains registered to a “Maddy Undergroundindians” at “Desi Fundu” who live in the city “Online” in the state “root”