📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@hungrier it's an acrostic... SDIAFII and so forth. Hth.
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What is this spam about? NFTs? Knock-off luggage? Porn? I don't know, and I don't intend to find out. (Address obscured, because it contains a string that just happens to be a widely leaked username of mine. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.)
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@HardwareGeek Obviously, teenage russian mail order brides with bubble butts are now available with people of color skin tones too.
It would be a very niche market, but still a market. Just a shame about those trade sanctions...
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@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
teenage russian mail order brides with bubble butts are now available with people of color skin tones too.
Ooh! Does it come in neon purple?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
teenage russian mail order brides with bubble butts are now available with people of color skin tones too.
Ooh! Does it come in neon purple?
That's not a color.
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@Gribnit said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
teenage russian mail order brides with bubble butts are now available with people of color skin tones too.
Ooh! Does it come in neon purple?
That's not a color.
Hey if spammers can promise the impossible I should be well within my rights to request the frickin impossible!
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@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
russian mail order brides
You can substitute with Ukrainian mail order brides. Who could tell the difference?
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
russian mail order brides
You can substitute with Ukrainian mail order brides. Who could tell the difference?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
russian mail order brides
You can substitute with Ukrainian mail order brides. Who could tell the difference?
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Eh, this seems needlessly fraught. On the one hand, one nation is explicitly said not to be a brothel, by some sources. On the other hand, the nation that is definitely a brothel among other things, is currently closed.
Therefore, Czechoslovakia.
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My wife received yesterday a bog-standard "rate how we did" email from a train company. Which is annoying spam by itself, you can't buy anything nowadays without being harassed afterwards.
But the kicker is that it's for a trip she did... last January.
Wow. Such timeliness. Much reactivity.
(cue jokes about train companies and being late and obligatory Garfield comics)
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@remi said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
My wife received yesterday a bog-standard "rate how we did" email from a train company. Which is annoying spam by itself, you can't buy anything nowadays without being harassed afterwards.
But the kicker is that it's for a trip she did... last January.
Wow. Such timeliness. Much reactivity.
(cue jokes about train companies and being late and obligatory Garfield comics)
They must be surprised she hasn't complained about them on twitter yet.
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@PleegWat It's a French railway company so honestly I'm surprised they even (seem to) care about customers' experience.
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It's amazing how much spam I sent to myself. My ISP flagged 18 emails in the last 24 hours, and I sent 15 of them (if you believe the From address). Apparently, I work for Home Depot, Netflix, McAfee, Dollar General, Southwest Airline, DermaCorrect, and I've developed a weight loss product, toenail fungus remedy, prostate remedy, penis enlarger, fad diet, and discovered a link between tinnitus and Alzheimer's — all on the same day.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
a link between tinnitus and Alzheimer's
I think there is one, yes. It rings a bell, but I can't remember.
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@Zecc said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
It rings a bell, but I can't remember.
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@Zecc said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I think
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Um, I wasn't planning to do that anyway, but thanks for the advice, I guess.
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@HardwareGeek And
Medieval Device
is also an interesting company name. What else do they have to offer?
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@BernieTheBernie Leeches, and pots of hot tar to cauterize amputated limbs.
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@PleegWat said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Leeches, and pots of hot tar to cauterize amputated limbs.
These devices sound suspiciously modern. What about basic fletching, cooping, and knapping notions?
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I'm confused. Am I supposed to enter now, or almost 5 years in the future?
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@HardwareGeek Because Home Depot's future is broken, you must fix their presence now.
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Dull Austrian-inflected monotone, “Come with me if you want to live.”
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@Gribnit said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@PleegWat said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Leeches, and pots of hot tar to cauterize amputated limbs.
These devices sound suspiciously modern. What about basic fletching, cooping, and knapping notions?
Medieval ≠ prehistoric.
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@PleegWat said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Gribnit said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@PleegWat said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Leeches, and pots of hot tar to cauterize amputated limbs.
These devices sound suspiciously modern. What about basic fletching, cooping, and knapping notions?
Medieval ≠ prehistoric.
2 of 3 such tradenames survive as modern surnames.
Come at me, bro.
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So I received an email from
Why would I want to buy a match?Tinder <redacted_1@redacted_2.dreamhostps.com>
with the subject lineIt's a Match!
Then there's a button (at least it looks like one) with the textFIND OUT WHO
. Again, I am confused: what should I find out about the World Health Organisation?
I prefered not to click on the button which links tohttp://milkiebar.com/wp-content/redacted_3.php?redacted_4
.Oh, by the way, the source of the email is highly readable:
...gICAgICAgICA8L3RyPiANCg0KIA0KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg ICAgICAgICAgIDwvdGJvZHk+ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDwvdGFibGU+ ICAgIA0KIA0KICANCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDwhLS0gRU5EIFNvY2lh bHMgLS0+PC90ZD4gDQo...
It has some
interesting
header items:Nonbiodegradable-Bunker: redacted_5 Ballrooms-Supremacy: redacted_6 Roused-Denominations-Dint: redacted_7 X-Spam-Flag: YES
This email was sent by Tinder.
Oh yes we have a thread for Tinder's value.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
gICAgICAgICA
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Phish much?
There are so many red flags in this, it's like May Day in downtown Beijing.
- IRS using an email account in Japan. (I didn't even notice this one at first.)
- Why would the IRS be sending me a W-9?
- W-9 is a single-page blank form that I can download from the IRS website. It's a small PDF; there's no reason to zip it.
- It's a blank form for me to provide identification to someone from whom I'm receiving some non-employee income. It's blank. It contains no personal info until I fill it out. It doesn't need to be password-protected.
- "Attached please find your W-9 for ...". The anonymized bit is my domain name. Not my name. It contains my last name, but it is not me, nor is it the name of a business that might possibly getting a W-9 from a worker.
- If I had a business with a payee from whom I needed a W-9, I would (I think) get the W-9 directly from the payee, not the IRS.
- "Department of Treasure" instead of "Department of the Treasury"
- "Personal assistant" What kind of job title is that? As a job title, that would typically be "Personal Assistant to {Person|Role}". And it's not a job title you'd generally find in government. "Deputy Assistant Under-Foo for Wasting Time and Money", yes, but not "Personal Assistant".
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Incompetent recruiter spam:
Because sending me the same job info every minute is going to increase the probability of my being interested in the job.
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@HardwareGeek They're just that gosh darn excited to talk to you.
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I got a fake Whatsapp message i my spam, and similarly to @BernieTheBernie it had some strange SMTP headers:
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@hungrier I'd rather redact the values - they might be meant to identify you.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@hungrier I'd rather redact the values - they might be meant to identify you.
I thought it might be a GfyCat but sadly...
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@BernieTheBernie It's possible, but if that's the case they would only be found on the spammer's own system or whatever list they're using, and they already know
myemail@gmail.com <myemail@gmail.com>
. I tried searching the coffee cup hex string on a couple search engines and got nothing.
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Listen from 11:25 for about 2 minutes. I listen at 1.5x but they're Irish so they might be incomprehensible at that speed.
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@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I listen at 1.5x
Don't see a button how to do that. However, I had listened to it in the one-box and figured that more controls might be available on their website:
Create an account or log in to scrub (???) through songs.
Lol yeah, fuck off. Morons.
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Don't see a button how to do that. However, I had listened to it in the one-box and figured that more controls might be available on their website:
I'm signed in on the website and there's no obvious button there either. Not that I actually wanted to listen at 1.5x anyway.
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@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
they're Irish so they might be incomprehensible at
thatany speed.FTF
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
they're Irish so they might be incomprehensible at
thatany speed.FTF
Fair clarification. Those speechlike sounds are just mimicry, like budgies.
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@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
they're Irish so they might be incomprehensible at
thatany speed.FTF
I fully intended to make that joke, but after listening to the section he said, it seemed perfectly understandable. (Although, why did that stop me? )
Next time we need a link to .
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
after listening
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@DogsB said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
they're Irish so they might be incomprehensible at
thatany speed.FTF
I fully intended to make that joke, but after listening to the section he said, it seemed perfectly understandable. (Although, why did that stop me? )
Next time we need a link to .All links to definitely have to be in the , because we can't be posting falsehoods on the main forum.
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TIL was the flag of Ireland and was presumably the flag of Scotland.
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I didn't order anything. Strike 1. That's not my name. Strike 2. This was sent from from a well-known personal email service domain rather than a business email domain. Strike 3.
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@Mason_Wheeler But ... you might want to order one now? At such a bargain price? And such quick delivery? Oh, just call the number shown there...
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Let's all say hello to @Emma-Watson, who unfortunately has been banned for posting spam about clothes, or whatever it was.
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@Zecc said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Let's all say hello to @Emma-Watson, who unfortunately has been banned for posting spam about clothes, or whatever it was.
Man, fuckin' Emma Watson....
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Status: ah, a bot, just my type!
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@Tsaukpaetra "Fuck me hardly or hardly fuck me"?
And rarely.