📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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So I have an email address which I hardly ever use. Guess: it was spam free. Upto ...
Well, a couple of days ago I sent 3 job applications. I used that clean email address. And today I received an "interesting" message from
survey-rocket-leads.ch
asking me if I was "fit for Switzerland" and if I took part in their survey, I could win a price in high SFR value.
Which of those 3 companies leaked my email address to that fucking spammer?
Can I easily sue that spammer in Switzerland (they are registered in Switzerland)?
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Which of those 3 companies leaked my email address to that fucking spammer?
This is why I now always suffix accounts signups with the name of the site I'm putting it in.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Which of those 3 companies leaked my email address to that fucking spammer?
This is why I now always suffix accounts signups with the name of the site I'm putting it in.
I do that, too. I rarely get spam to those addresses, though. Most of it comes to the base address, and of the spam that is addressed to a suffixed address, the vast majority is to (and often faked from) the address I use for LinkedIn. (And that's not counting the from LinkedIn and recruiters using LinkedIn.) Occasionally, I'll get something to the email I used for Adobe a long, long time ago.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I used for Adobe a long, long time ago.
In a galaxy far, far away?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
This is why I now always suffix accounts signups with the name of the site I'm putting it in.
Well, you need your own mail domain then. I use some free provider (and there a few reasonable offers here in Germany).
But still...
Imagine, you are some HR guy at InniTech, and receive a job application with the applicant's email beingBernieTheBernie-Innitech@BernieTheBernie.com
. What would you think of him?
Worse yet, next application goes to InitRode, and some where the applicant forgot to replaceInniTech
withInitRode
...
Of course, that won't ever happen.
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@BernieTheBernie we learned you are presenting yourself to be innitech. You are hereby ordered to cease this immediately and transfer control of berniethebernir-innitech@berniethebernie.com to us immediately and perpetually.
Signed,
Innitech legal.
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@Luhmann said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I used for Adobe a long, long time ago.
In a galaxy far, far away?
When the music used to make you smile?
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@Watson said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Luhmann said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I used for Adobe a long, long time ago.
In a galaxy far, far away?
When the music used to make you smile?
And they're always glad you came.
Except for Cliff, who's still in the postal service, and probably will be for life.
And not a tab was opened - the beer steins all were broken.
he said Norm I believe this is killing me, as a bra dissolved under his touch
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Worse yet, next application goes to InitRode,
And why would
@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
InniTech
have anything to do with anything?
....
.........
Wait, what exactly do you think I'm doing?
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(to be clear, that name is nothing like my real name)
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@hungrier I think a clarification that you're not someone named Marielle wasn't really necessary
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Oh no! The 2021 Christmas season is close. I need to start buying gifts.
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I guess I've made it in the software business. I'm now getting recruiter spam. Ok, only one company (Amazon), but seriously. Stop it. I got two email within an hour of each other this morning:
Hi <me>,
I hope all is well! My name is <name> and I am a Technical Recruiter with Amazon.
Imagine a partner that can help navigate your career growth and customize an excellent match based on your skillset. Primarily we are looking for engineers with a focus on the back-end. There is a lot of tech that we use and vary somewhat by teams, ranging from languages such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design and systems design experience. Best part, YOU get to choose your own team.
If you’re open to it, I’d love to get you into the process here. The first step is to apply and complete the online assessment.
Let me know if you’re interested, and I’ll send it your way along with some prep material.
If now is not the time, feel free to connect on LinkedIn anyways!
Have a wonderful day,
<name>I've gotten dozens of similar ones (different <name> and slightly different text) from about 5-6 different recruiters over the last few months. I experimented with telling one of them that I wasn't interested--all it did was make the next email come from someone else.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I guess I've made it in the software business. I'm now getting recruiter spam.
I only get conference spam from the International1 Conference on Multidisciplanry Technology on Computing, Health, Geosciences, AI, Betaverse, Chemical Engineering and Sociology.
1 Might also be called "American" if it's a journal instead of a conference, but is still Chinese.
E: Unintentional typo left in for authenticity.
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Multidisciplanry Technology
Aka doomsday devices.
on Computing, Health, Geosciences, AI, Betaverse, Chemical Engineering and Sociology.
Bafflingly complicated doomsday devices.
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Merde!
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How many red flags can you spot? One not obvious to you but obvious to me: I've never had a Subscription with GEEK SQUAD, with or without random capitalization.
Edit: I got another one from a different sender, basically the same, but with a different version of the Geek Squad logo, like a letterhead, smaller and not grayed-out. That one is only $249.99. Such a bargain!
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
One not obvious to you but obvious to me
Along those same lines, I never use a debit card (except to get cash from the ATM)
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@HardwareGeek And I am not so sure if that bill is about $389.99 (as shown in the text) or $399.99 (as shown in Subtotal/Total). Hope they won't cheat about these $10!
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@BernieTheBernie $10 stupidity tax.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie $10 stupidity tax.
Plus, not charging sales tax ain't gonna fly with the California Franchise Tax Board.
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I haven't used Telegram in over 2 years, and when I did use it, I used it only for D&D. I just got a service notification about custom emojis from Telegram itself. Whatever, IDGAF. And almost 150 messages from "85Cryptocurrency Future". And to Telegram for letting this account spam people.
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I'm having a 90s flashback rn.
For some reason, probably a company training years ago, I'm on PuppetLabs' "Puppet Education" distribution list. I didn't even know because they haven't sent anything for years. Until today, when it turned out that at PuppetLabs instead of using a mass mailer, they just used Mailman, and they fucked up the configuration. Apparently someone registered the mailing list address for some Atlassian support ticket and sent this:
I am glad you are all here. We have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty
Now my inbox is exploding with "UNSUBSCRIBE" messages from O'Reilly Auto Parts, "We are working on it" from Atlassian support, "Why am I receiving this?" from Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility & Instrument Development Lab and random people making fun of Puppet for needing half an hour to undo the config fuckup and and "It’d be quicker with Ansible tbh."
The first Rick Astley GIF just came in. Good old times. Let me check if I have a copy of Back Orifice to send to the list …
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Why do I have to appear when a parcel is to be delivered to me?
Just put it in front of the house door.Courier Services
Delivery id 1234567810/25/2022
The parcel will be sent back to the shipper if you fail to appear.
View details
Terms of Use | Privacy Notice | Terms and Conditions of Carriage
The
View details
button leads to a php page onnvcbiotech.com/wp-content/
.
I guess I will just default.
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@BernieTheBernie Clicking on links in spam?
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Which of those 3 companies leaked my email address to that fucking spammer?
A few years ago, I created an account on one of the big job-search websites and uploaded my resume. Except it wasn't an actual resume. I was feeling a bit at the time and so my "resume" consisted of 2 pages of random gibberish spewed out by some text-generator program that I found somewhere.
For more than a year afterward, I would get emails from people saying "We saw your resume and think you would be a good fit for our company."
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
nvcbiotech.com
Well, BitDefender won't even let me go there, so I can't even see what sort of shitty WordPress it is.
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@Gern_Blaanston Joke's on you. They were specifically searching for people who write random gibberish.
(choose your favorite media company to be the target of this joke)
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@Arantor said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
nvcbiotech.com
Well, BitDefender won't even let me go there, so I can't even see what sort of shitty WordPress it is.
Your typical hacked one that's mostly fine except a few dropped php fucks.
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@hungrier said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Clicking on links in spam?
I still use such an incredibly old-fashioned mail client on a "real" computer (i.e. not a phone, and with a real keyboard and real mouse connected to it), which allows me to hover the mouse over the button and then get notified where that link is supposed to go to.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
allows me to hover the mouse over the button
I
right-clicktap hold suspicious links to do with precise thing.I like how it's impossible to scroll the URL. But it gets me basically there.
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@Zecc said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
They were specifically searching for people who write random gibberish.
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Some spammers really take some effort. Got a mail advertising a chinese crypto coin, available now via a single official seller for buyers in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Wow! I need that!
The email was sent from
newspursuits.com
(verified in the headers) and the links in it also lead there. That is a rare spam event.They also give a "real name" and a real address. The place with that post code exists, and there is also a road with that name there. Just do not know if the guy mentioned really lives there. And the name is consistent with the name in the
from
andreply-to
headers. His email address is given asinfo@newspursuits.com
.When googling for that name and address, I found
Ehm, embeddedly no moar woking...
Sample Fake Names
https://gist.github.com/siebertm/192658
Please send him a couple of great crypto suggestionz!
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Ehm, embeddedly no moar woking...
I blame gist for that.
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My opinion is that you're overpriced, arrogant, and far too politically left.
Also, I'd be far more likely to think your survey was legitimate if (a) your email wasn't sent to the address I use for LinkedIn, leaked by them, and now used targeted by (probably) half the spam I receive, and (b) your links actually went to a stanford.edu domain, instead of qualtrics.com, whatever the heck that is.
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@HardwareGeek Qualtrics, “the leading experience management software”. So customer surveys that “provide better value and engagement” and all that shit.
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@Arantor FTW. Somebody else looked it up so I didn't have to.
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@HardwareGeek I was genuinely curious what corporate kool-aid BS it would be.
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Yo, @Tsaukpaetra, what the fuck?!
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Ok, which of you Polish sons of potatoes is spamming me now And no, I didn't open it or try to translate it.
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@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Sorry, it's a screen shot of my high-resolution screen.
Edit: full text:
Subject: Przeczytaj zaktualizowane Reguły katalogu Zmiany w naszych Regułach katalogu: co i jak Cześć 4f9edghicj, piszemy z ważną wiadomością – w grudniu wejdzie w życie zaktualizowana wersja Reguł katalogu Vinted. Zachęcamy do zapoznania się z nią do tego czasu. Aby Ci to ułatwić, przedstawiamy skrót najważniejszych zmian: Więcej o dozwolonych przedmiotach Po aktualizacji pojawi się więcej informacji na temat tego, co wolno, a czego nie wolno sprzedawać na Vinted. W przypadku dozwolonych przedmiotów rozwinęliśmy fragmenty dotyczące kategorii, takich jak urządzenia medyczne i kosmetyki, aby stały się bardziej zrozumiałe. Dodatkowe informacje na temat zakazanych przedmiotów Podzieliliśmy niedozwolone przedmioty na trzy kategorie: nielegalne, wykluczone oraz niebezpieczne. Przedmioty sprzedawane w UE Zgodnie z Regułami katalogu przedmioty muszą być wprowadzone zgodnie z prawem do obrotu na terytorium Europejskiego Obszaru Gospodarczego (EOG) przed wystawieniem ich na Vinted. To oznacza, że muszą zostać wcześniej sprzedane zgodnie z prawem na terytorium EOG lub zgodnie z prawem importowane na terytorium EOG z państwa niebędącego jego członkiem. Bezpieczeństwo i uczciwość na Vinted Zmiany w Regułach katalogu zostaną odzwierciedlone w sposobie moderacji aktywności na platformie Vinted. Co jeszcze warto wiedzieć? Zaktualizowane reguły będą dotyczyć wszystkich zamówień złożonych po wejściu w życie aktualizacji, czyli od 29 grudnia 2022 r. Do tego czasu obowiązuje obecna wersja Reguł katalogu. Masz pytania? Zadaj je tutaj. I koniecznie zapoznaj się ze zaktualizowanymi Regułami katalogu, aby móc dalej kupować i sprzedawać bez przeszkód. Dziękujemy za poświęcony czas, Zespół Vinted
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Zespół
That's the Polish transliteration of
cesspool
.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
4f9edghicj
I don't think that's a word, even in crazy moon language.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
4f9edghicj
I don't think that's a word, even in crazy moon language.
looks like Czech to me but without diacritics
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@HardwareGeek This combination of characters is used as an identifier. The sender of the email can now see that
4f9edghicj
is @Benjamin-Hall at WDTWTF, and he has his real life email address, too.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
This combination of characters is used as an identifier.
What language allows identifiers to begin with a digit?
_
, yes.$
, some. Weird Unicode characters, a few, unfortunately. But digits?
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@HardwareGeek I'd guess it's a hash value. Given the length, probably a 64-bit hash, base64 encoded, then case adjusted (because obviously only the first codepoint of a first name should be uppercase, and the rest lowercase).