📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I've received no more than ten spam calls in the last three year
I wish. I get about around 10-15 per week. Of course, my phone number needs to be public since I'm one of the primary contacts for our dog shows. My cell phone only gets about 1 a week. Pretty much every one is a fake number so blocking won't do any good.
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@Gąska said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Gąska said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
My old number had monthly texts with the balance of a bank account in a bank I've never been to.
Bonus fun: the account was in active use because the balance was different each time.
The popular
phone numberemail address thread is
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@Gąska That reminds me that my parents' holiday home was once used for some sort of scam (or at least we think so).
Once we arrived there (maybe for summer holidays or something similar) and saw that a mailbox had been hung on the door (there is a mail slot through the door, and someone had latched another mailbox on top of that), with a random name on it. We didn't think much of it, just removed it (I think it was empty at that point). But in the next few days/weeks, we received some mail addressed to the name that was on the box (and that has nothing to do with ours, of course). Having no other way to find out more, my parents finally decided to open a couple of them. Some of them were bank statements with an "interesting" pattern in transactions: there was a large sum dumped on the account one day (by cheque? bank transfer? I don't remember), then many small cash withdrawals in the next few days, until again one large sum arrived. That looked very much like money laundering...
We brought all that information to the police and the bank, and never heard of it again afterwards. But we still use the name that was on the box as an in-joke for the resident ghost of the house.
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Just received a fresh spam mail. This one has something special:
Return-Path: <ad@cmshit.ru> Received: from admin.synergyfp.com ([216.75.21.58]) by ... Reply-To: <rickyearltonnesen69@yandex.ru> From: "Rick Yearl Ttonnsen"<ad@cmshit.ru> Subject: Nice to meet you
Yes, the domain is
cm shit
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He offers a quick loan: "We loan from USD/EURO 5M to USD/EURO 500M."
Well, anyway, his offer is likely shit.
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If you visit the Garage, you know what an epic targeted-ad fail this is. Of course I didn't load any remote images to let them know they hit a valid address, so I don't know what the shirts look like, but if "design for all ladies and women" means they're women's style shirts, not regular unisex t-shirts, doubly epic fail. Also, what is "humain feminism right"? Maybe they mean humane, like the Humane Society, euthanizing unwanted animals rather than letting them starve. (I'd better not say any more; this isn't the Garage.)
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Status: Holy shit, I didn't know SunGod was still around!
This was from a 2013 crowdfunding campaign:
Lost the fucking things, and hated them besides. Wonder if they have any better models now...
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@Tsaukpaetra So it's a crowdfunding campaign for a revolutionary new idea which is... sunglasses? That's it? The thing you can find literally tens if not hundreds of designs and variations in every shop, at every price?
I'm indeed surprised that they not only managed to gather enough money to actually ship something, but that they're still around years later...
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@HardwareGeek heh. That's actually pretty funny..
While they're at it I know this fox guy who'd love a MAGA hat...
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I don't have an eBook, visionary or otherwise. This one must have been intended for @mott555, surely:
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Fun, either this bot-driven account was removed from servers or it somehow magically found me.
I'm sure when the system can ask verify my age I'll definitely give it all my PII...
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This isn't exactly spam, but DBrand marketing is always good for a laugh
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
This isn't exactly spam, but DBrand marketing is always good for a laugh
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
This isn't exactly spam, but DBrand marketing is always good for a laugh
Linus made like 4 videos complaining about that case!
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Wow, a $100 gift from Amazon:
We are delighted to enclose a $100 Amazon gift card as our way of saying “Thank You”.
$100.00
Amazon Gift CardView details
Don't have an Amazon account?
Sign up to redeem.
Once applied to your Amazon account, the entire amount will be added to your gift card balance. Your gift card balance can't be transferred to other accounts, used to buy other gift cards, or, except as required by law, redeemed for cash.
Your gift card balance will be applied automatically to eligible orders during the checkout process and when using 1-Click. If you don’t want to use your gift card balance on your order, you can unselect it as a payment method in checkout.And guess where the link behind "View details" points to?
Amazon?
dev10.mikvahcalendar.com, hosted by GoDaddy since many years, so likely some häcked web site...
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Typical phishing spam:
Your payment for Microsoft 365 Apps for business [sic] was declined blah blah blah...
Let's see how badly they failed to phish me:
- I don't have Microsoft 365 Apps (for business or otherwise).
- I use some version of Microsoft 365 at work, but it's not Apps. (It includes Outlook and Teams, which Apps does not.)
- It ain't my job to pay for it.
- I don't think MS would send notifications to the single-purpose address I used for (and which was leaked by) Adobe.
- I don't think MS would link to
thebrainfield.com/arabic.php
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I'm on my phone and to find and link images, so imagine a Doctor Evil "How about no!" meme here.
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I don't know why anyone would subscribe me to a muck boots uk company's email list, but I am not amused...
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Subject: You appeared in 4 search this week
From: LinkedIn redacted@nesn.com
Hm, yes very LinkedIn
Then follow some links. Let me see ...
zhongshixingchuang.com
Surely, LinkedIn just bought help from China.
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The amount of spam I’m receiving has increased tenfold the last few weeks. I thought it’s a solved problem but apparently there’s still money to be made in sending garbage to the gullible:
Yes, I’m sure a German hardware store is sending me
unsolicited shitgift vouchers in Chinese. Unfortunately I can’t read your scam so I don’t know where to send the moneyz.
And I’m not solving triple integrals while I’m on holiday, either.
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
The amount of spam I’m receiving has increased tenfold the last few weeks.
Oh good. I'm not the only one...
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
The amount of spam I’m receiving has increased tenfold the last few weeks. I thought it’s a solved problem but apparently there’s still money to be made in sending garbage to the gullible:
Yes, I’m sure a German hardware store is sending me
unsolicited shitgift vouchers in Chinese. Unfortunately I can’t read your scam so I don’t know where to send the moneyz.
And I’m not solving triple integrals while I’m on holiday, either.They just fucked up the encoding. The character right of the boxed ? isn't Chinese either.
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@BernieTheBernie it’s the same as Klingon for all I care.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
The amount of spam I’m receiving has increased tenfold the last few weeks. I thought it’s a solved problem but apparently there’s still money to be made in sending garbage to the gullible:
Yes, I’m sure a German hardware store is sending me
unsolicited shitgift vouchers in Chinese. Unfortunately I can’t read your scam so I don’t know where to send the moneyz.
And I’m not solving triple integrals while I’m on holiday, either.They just fucked up the encoding. The character right of the boxed ? isn't Chinese either.
Generated payload in packed 7-bit SMS encoding but then set the headers to UTF-16?
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@topspin
It starts out as the script of a porn movie though ...
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From: "Cotsco" (I haven't had a Costco membership in 20 years, so it's very unlikely they'd be sending me email out of the blue, but I had to look at it 3 times to notice the misspelling.)
Subject: "simply complete our"Complete your what, your subject line?
I have no intention of looking at the contents to find out what sort of scam they're trying to pull.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Someone messaged me on LinkedIn that they want to talk about how their software can help me release products 20X faster with state of the art cloud testing infrastructure.
I got a direct email asking me to fill a survey about how we're using VR in the company, and if we want to incorporate it into the organization.
I'm going to pretend Hypatia is still being actively developed and see where that goes.
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@Tsaukpaetra Hey, if they're paying $250 for an hour, I'd be willing to lie to them about how we totally do VR here. Or about how we did it at my old school.
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@Tsaukpaetra I can't get over the parenthesized name.
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@Gąska said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra I can't get over the parenthesized name.
I elided that to make it obvious they did not put that. Perhaps I should have used [] brackets instead?
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@Tsaukpaetra I suspected that it might be your anonymization, but then I thought that knowing you, you probably wouldn't've bothered.
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@Gąska said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra I suspected that it might be your anonymization, but then I thought that knowing you, you probably wouldn't've bothered.
I felt encouraged to be playful for some reason.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Gąska said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra I can't get over the parenthesized name.
I elided that to make it obvious they did not put that. Perhaps I should have used [] brackets instead?
Editing the text directly makes it less obvious than e.g. a rectangle placed over the text in the screenshot
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Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
Did you ask him what you need to do to get your drugs and money back?
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@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
Did you ask him what you need to do to get your drugs and money back?
No, they immediately hung up after I said hello.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
Did you ask him what you need to do to get your drugs and money back?
No, they immediately hung up after I said hello.
Then how do you know about the drugs and money that was seized?
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@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
Did you ask him what you need to do to get your drugs and money back?
No, they immediately hung up after I said hello.
Then how do you know about the drugs and money that was seized?
That was the second transfer. The recording told me about it, and immediately transferred, I said hello, they hung up.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Status: Huzzah! I got called from "US Border and control" from India! Did you know I have drugs and money seized?!
Did you ask him what you need to do to get your drugs and money back?
No, they immediately hung up after I said hello.
Then how do you know about the drugs and money that was seized?
That was the second transfer. The recording told me about it, and immediately transferred, I said hello, they hung up.
Next time try sounding like an old lady
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The Deputy Director of the FBI contacted me (using my full name "Beneficiary") from what appears to be his personal email to tell me about some nonsense and threaten me with this:
Too bad I only found it more than 72 hours after it was sent. I guess if you see any more posts from me it'll be from tax prison in the US.
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
The Deputy Director of the FBI contacted me (using my full name "Beneficiary") from what appears to be his personal email to tell me about some nonsense and threaten me with this:
Too bad I only found it more than 72 hours after it was sent. I guess if you see any more posts from me it'll be from tax prison in the US.
hold on is that "take our free money or we'll send you to jail"?
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@sloosecannon It wasn't the FBI's money, but some money that was intercepted, with my name on it but missing some paperwork to indicate it's not tax evaded money being laundered. So the lesson is, if you do financial crimes, make sure you have those forms and everything will be A-ok
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@sloosecannon It wasn't the FBI's money, but some money that was intercepted, with my name on it but missing some paperwork to indicate it's not tax evaded money being laundered. So the lesson is, if you do financial crimes, make sure you have those forms and everything will be A-ok
Ahh seems logical...
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Do we have a version of this thread? LinkedIn is trying to tell me why I should hire for diversity instead of talent or fit.
(Hint: I have no responsibility for hiring, at all, for any reason. I can probably count on one hand the number of times, in my 30+ year career, that I have even been involved in the interview process.)
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Do we have a version of this thread? LinkedIn is trying to tell me why I should hire for diversity instead of talent or fit.
(Hint: I have no responsibility for hiring, at all, for any reason. I can probably count on one hand the number of times, in my 30+ year career, that I have even been involved in the interview process.)
Interviewing is so much fun. It's like a game where the interviewee and interviewer has to figure out who is lying about what, or at all.
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Hey everyone! Your iCloud account has been breached!
Enjoy the after-birth!
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I'm fairly certain the CEO of my employer's client is not going to email me from "an important conference meeting" asking for my cell phone number because "i need some certain task to be carry out by you". I'm even more certain he's not going to send such an email from "melindamargaretta063@gmail.com". His name is not Melinda nor Margaretta, and for business email, I'm fairly certain he'd use his business_name.com account, not some random gmail.com. I've never met the CEO. I doubt he even knows who I am; a VP or two, yes, but the CEO, no. AFAIK, he does not involve himself in routine, low-level engineering operations, and that's the only sort of task I "be carry out", so no.
Spear phishing fail.
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@HardwareGeek Someone in my company got a similar one. They got both the CEO and the employee's names correct, but the message was still from some random gmail address so he was suspicious. He posted the email on Teams, and since we're a small company the CEO confirmed that indeed he didn't send anything like that from a random address.
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Not technically spam, because I have an "established business relationship" with the sender, but for crying out loud!
I looked at some quasi-industrial shelving for my garage, with the thought of making the clutter both more compact and more accessible. I found some shelving units I like, but they're a bit pricey, and I haven't decided yet whether I actually want to spend that much money. (I'm still working on building emergency savings, plus I'm anticipating car repair and medical expenses as soon as I get off my and stop procrastinating, so large discretionary purchases really should be deferred at least a few more months.)
Since then, eBay has been bombarding me daily with "Storage units we picked out for you" or "Storage units: this could interest you..." emails. Every. Single. Day.
Dammit, eBay; if I'm not actively searching your listings for X, I'm not interested in buying X now (and for some of the other junk mail they send me, not ever).