đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘
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@remi said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
it was machine-translated to French, giving something like "we hope you are having an explosion".
Probably assumed you were British and just sitting down to a plate of bangers.
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@Onyx Not me! I turned those damned things off.
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@remi said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Except that it was machine-translated to French
When will scammers learn that machine-translated text is immediately obvious?
Even if you avoid all idioms whatsoever and stick to the 850 basic words, I still haven't seen a single translator that manages to keep the genders of words right.
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@anonymous234 said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
When will scammers learn that machine-translated text is immediately obvious?
i think that's the point actually. if you're savy enough to spot the machine translation you're too savy to fall for the scam, so by making it so you never reply they avoid wasting their time trying to drag you in as a mark when they were fated to fail.
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@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
savy
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
savy
At least you are consistent in being wrong.
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@obeselymorbid said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
savy
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
savy
At least you are consistent in being wrong.
if i was write i'd be
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@obeselymorbid said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
At least you are consistent in being wrong.
Yeah it's a strange way of writing sassy
you're too sassy
Oh come one
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@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
if i was write i'd be
You're more alt-write
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@Jaloopa said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
if i was write i'd be
You're more alt-write
just so long as i'm not alt-facts
alt-facts give me terrible wind and explosive diarrhea.
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@accalia TMI!
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@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
alt-facts give me terrible wind and explosive diarrhea.
Are you sure that's not coleslaw or russian salad?
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It doesn't even say "me" in the to section.
What's with the red asterisk?
And the un-decode-able imange?
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@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
alt-facts give me terrible wind and explosive diarrhea.
You're thinking of alt-fats.
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@boomzilla said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
alt-facts give me terrible wind and explosive diarrhea.
You're thinking of alt-fats.
those do that too, but the detonations have much smaller lethal radii
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yeeeeeeeawh...... Western Union representative uses Gmail? buuuuuuuuuuull sheeeeeeet.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
It doesn't even say "me" in the to section.
BCC is like that.
What's with the red asterisk?
Trying to confuse the spam filters.
And the un-decode-able imange?
Also trying to confuse the spam filters.
Spammers sometimes send emails like that just to fuzz the email system and see what sort of tricks they can learn to help them get their real spam through to its victims.
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I think my company is testing us again:
The domain leads back to a security company that I recall them using before.
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@boomzilla Massages are always critical!
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@dcon I like that they put some typos in to make it realistic.
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@boomzilla Just noticed another. "Sonnyvale CA" LOL. I drive past their Sunnyvale office frequently. (I also like the "very different IP". It's not just different, it's very different.
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@dcon said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Just noticed another. "Sonnyvale CA"
Sonnyville. And with an invalid ZIP code â not just wrong for Sunnyvale, but completely invalid for any city. I thought spammers tried to make their phishing mail look as legitimate as possible (given their typically poor English language skills) to fool people. Why put obvious errors in it?
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@HardwareGeek said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Why put obvious errors in it?
It's fake phishing. They're testing employees to see if we'll bite. Well, that's what I believe this to be.
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@HardwareGeek said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
And with an invalid ZIP code â not just wrong for Sunnyvale, but completely invalid for any city.
How so? 96036 certainly looks valid. (Sunnyvale's is 94086/94087, can't remember if there's more)
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@HardwareGeek said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
I thought spammers tried to make their phishing mail look as legitimate as possible
Quite the opposite. Making it obvious reduces the number of people smart enough to work out partway through the scam that you're not the real thing and leaves you with just the ones gullible enough to follow through. There's a white paper detailing the research into it, look up Why from Nigeria
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@dcon said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
96036 certainly looks valid.
usps.com says:
Sorry, 96036 is not a valid ZIP Codeâ˘.
Please double-check it and try again.
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@HardwareGeek said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@dcon said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
96036 certainly looks valid.
usps.com says:
Sorry, 96036 is not a valid ZIP Codeâ˘.
Please double-check it and try again.That's why I said "looks" valid :)
96035 is GERBER CATIL: Don't click a link in the preview window. It does not open in a new tab.
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@dcon said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
preview window
What's that?
Why is the only cell phone emoji we have that actually looks like a phone explicitly an iPhone? ď is pretty meh.
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-one/static/images/1f4f1.svg
Did any iPhone have a non-round Home button?
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@Maciejasjmj huh, If I just click on the link it throws up 404,but it opens fine in a new tab. Does NodeBB use the DiscoRouter too?
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@Maciejasjmj said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Did any iPhone have a non-round Home button?
I dunno, but the emoji is : iphone:
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@HardwareGeek said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@Maciejasjmj said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Did any iPhone have a non-round Home button?
I dunno, but the emoji is
:iphone:
FTFY
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@boomzilla flagged for "flaged".
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@boomzilla Google is trying to protect me from my employer.
(For the record, the email contained no phishing-related text or links, but it did have a forwarded Inedo support ticket, so I think the first two fields confused it.)
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They started out so strong with those real-looking notifications and then they just dumped hot pink size 70 text and and all over it.
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OH WOW I CAN GET A delicious-meal THAT FEEDS Four (4) PEOPLE AT MY NEAREST MCDONALD'S
I'm not sure what I like best about their menu:
- They only sell one chicken sandwich
- They list wraps and salads on the same line despite being completely unrelated foods
- Whatever the hell a Nuggets-Desserts is
I'll be sure to enjoy a meal with friends and/or family and/or on-Us.
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What the hell did they train that Markov chain on? Flying Circus fan fiction?
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
OH WOW I CAN GET A delicious-meal THAT FEEDS Four (4) PEOPLE AT MY NEAREST MCDONALD'S
Deliciously malicious
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@dse said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Deliciously malicious
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
They list wraps and salads on the same line despite being completely unrelated foods
Actually, the only real difference is the tortilla.
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I got some phishing email that looked pretty standard (other than being four years out of date, which I just noticed while writing this post):
I wanted to know where the link actually went so I looked at the source code. They've got some weird attributes on their html tags:
<div whimpers=9 style="...">
<b deservingly='96' style="...">Ex</b>
<span vestige="woodpecker"
<a hegemony="viennese"
<a heatedly="6"
I'm assuming this is to try (and fail) to fool spam filters by including English words?
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@hungrier said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
I'm assuming this is to try (and fail) to fool spam filters by including English words?
Yes.
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@anotherusername said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@hungrier said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
I'm assuming this is to try (and fail) to fool spam filters by including English words?
Yes.
"Does it use lots of invalid HTML attributes" seems like an easy heuristic to write.
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@ben_lubar I like the âinconvenienced elkâ, and the âthey would gherkin like on each designâ sounds
Fortunately they âNeed a new website.â
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@hungrier said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
<a hegemony="viennese"
Sounds some kind of early 20th-century European political statement... Do they have a 100-years-old spam algorithm?
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linked in....... what the actual fuck?
LITERALLY NOTHING I'VE TOLD YOU HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS AD! It's a sponsored message, was there not enough people to send it to that might have been interested in this crap?! or did you just take their money and poop on it by throwing the ad about randomly?!
i hate linked in and our industries apparent requirement to use the damn thing.
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@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
industries
I was going to correct this, but then I saw who the poster was.
Ah, WTF:
@accalia said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
industr
iesy'sFTFY
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From the latest spam message posted on this forum:
Hey friends
Yay, we're friends with them!
this is very bumper Idea and great solution
Idea for a new pinball game? I'm in!
do you have any confronting problem
How did you know about my social anxiety?
lead issue
Well, it's very heavy and also poisonous. I'd call those issues, yes.
(The spam message was removed very swiftly by the mods, but was about fake support for a certain brand of laptops in a certain country.)
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@Atazhaia I particularly liked the part where they invited you to "dial" a link.
A mangled image link, in particular.
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It's a pity we're not still on Discourse. I hear that's immune to bots