đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘
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I'm not downloading that, what kind of moron do you think I am?
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Uh...
Wow, they put a lot of effort into making this look like a middle schooler made it in the 90s.
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A sample of the back-scatter I've been receiving since 0300UTC yesterday morning:
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Blanked out my real name, work email address and a bit of company identifiable information from the inquiry case number.
no this isn't actually from postmaster, our real email blocked emails look rather different and come from a different email address. no that exe isn't actually attached.....
i have no idea what that spammer was actually trying to do here...
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Ooooh! An old-fashioned 419 scam incoming!
Good day. I have attached a business proposal to this email that I believe will be of mutual benefit to both of us. Please go through the attached proposal and let me know if you are interested in the project. After reading the proposal, you can email me back on: â â â â â â â .â â â â â â â @â â â â â â â .com so that we can I can give you more details on how we intend to accomplish this proposal. If for some reasons you are unable to view the attached proposal, kindly inform me so that I can so that I can resend it in a different format or as a plain text.
Regards,
Mohammed.
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Reminds me of http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Go-Phish...
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Email clients should put up a huge warning message if someone tries to send an email containing the password they logged in with.
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if(emailBody.contains("hunter2")) { // TODO: Make this check for the actual password dialog = new WarningDialog("Never send your password to anyone!"); dialog.show(); }
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if someone tries to send an email containing the password they logged in with.
Which can be checked by keeping their current password as a variable on the clientside. Or possibly a GET parameter so it's right there in the URL
&PASSWORD=Hunter2
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That seems insecureâyou just need to take a hash of every substring of the entire email, and throw up the warning if one of the hashes generated is the same as the user's password hash. Boom.
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Bonus points if having the password twice or more doesn't count.
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Since that claims to be a UWM address, I hope you forwarded that on to university IT to hunt down the owner and apply the proper size cluebat. (Unless the from is a forgery, of course.)
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Well, there's a Received header that says this:
Received: from [10.179.85.234] (41.203.69.6) by BLUPR04MB867.namprd04.prod.outlook.com (10.141.202.155) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.1.118.21; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:57:07 +0000
The IP address in parentheses is from Nigeria. I very much doubt there is someone in Nigeria that goes to my university.
weiskopj is apparently a lecturer who doesn't have a website or any classes. Consequently, this is also the page that they probably got my email address from - typing ben into the search box results in 248 email addresses with no captcha or obfuscation of any kind.
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Also, my university's IT department explicitly says not to forward phishing emails - presumably to avoid a situation like that front page article that was linked above. With the IT staff.
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Polish Beer:
Now with twice the unsubscribe links!
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... Partner fĂźr fĂźr die ...
Ummm... My German is really rusty but that doesn't seem right...
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The German in the E-Mail isn't all the great, yup.
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Well, I managed to understand it, so points for that, I guess?
Any other badness is something I cannot comment on, again, rusty (and wasn't all that great to begin with).
Ok, other than possibly
Addresse E-Mail
, seems backwards to me. Or how you would write it in French, rather. Unless that is the way that term is used in German?
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It's usually E-Mail-Adresse, which is a giant WTF. Yes, one "d". Not two.
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I informally pressed "delete forever" and sent it on its way whirling.
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This is even more evil now that Facebook actually puts NO INFORMATION in their f-belgium-king emails.
I could say "
$generic_name
updated his status: I'm so tired of people talking abo..." in an email with a "realread whole update" option and get almost everyone I know to click on it, since Facebook does that too!
Filed Under:
f-belgium-king
emails
Addendum:sed s/php_real_whole_update()/read whole update/
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Fuck me, ďacebook, last time I looked at my phone's notifications, there were no less than 18 seperate notifications from facebook:
- You have 10 unread messages.
- Some guy you went to school with said a thing.
- You have 11 unread messages.
- Some woman took a photo!
- You have 12 unread messages.
- Please look at our website, please!
- You have 14 unread messages.
- On and on with this shit...
Fortunately, I have App Ops installed, so ďacebook app now no longer has the permission to make notifications. It wasn't like I was going to go look at it anyway...
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Android?
You can just block notifications for apps natively in the App Manager.Oh, and you can turn them off in Facebook. You should probably disable email notifications too otherwise you'll just get emails for the same.
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Lol. Facebook on my phone is in a strange state where it fails to actually get updates unless I open the app (I probably caused that but meh). Last time I opened it, I got about 20 notifications spammed at me. Then I permanently disabled them.
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Mine's been quiet. Turns out it's signed itself out for reasons and wants me to sign back in. It's taken me a couple of days at least to notice that
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If that happened to me:
Ooops. Oh well. Guess I'm not getting notifications on here for a while until I
DO MY JOBlog back in
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Mine's been quiet. Turns out it's signed itself out for reasons and wants me to sign back in.
Was anything of value lost?
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Lol. Facebook on my phone is in a strange state where it fails to actually get updates unless I open the app (I probably caused that but meh).
Did you install Greenify recently?
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Did you install Greenify recently?
"Stop your phone from losing battery life because of all the craptastic apps you've installed by...
Â
... installing yet another app."
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Did you install Greenify recently?
Yeah, figured it might be that.
>"Stop your phone from losing battery life because of all the craptastic apps you've installed by...
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... installing yet another app."Yeah, but Greenify and Amplify really help a lot with battery life. And if they kill Facebook in the process,
oh wellextra bonus!
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Was anything of value lost?
Would anything of value be lost if Facebook entirely ceased to exist? I think not.
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Other than
suckers'investors' money.
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Yes.
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IIRC some researchers have been allowed to use anonymized interaction graphs of users for some psych research so the data that they build up has value.
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psych research
Are you referencing the time facebook literally to mind fucked with specific users to see if those users got statistically more depressed?
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No, it was something to do with mapping who the users were interacting with predicting something rather than the more recent actively mucking with people one. But that is another example of research being done using facebook.
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psych research ... data ... has negative value.
FTFY
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Would anything of value be lost if Facebook entirely ceased to exist?
But this is really no different than comparing it to, say, Steam. Or HBO.
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In the case of HBO, I agree; nothing of value to me, positive or negative, would be lost if HBO ceased. People have paid real money for games, which would be lost if Steam were to disappear.
One may argue that all of Facebook, Steam, HBO and the like have zero, or even negative, value to society as a whole, because the time people spend on them is time they are not being productive. In the case of Steam, however, the possible non-loss to society is offset by the monetary loss to the individuals who have paid for games. One might also argue that the existence of Facebook provides value to small businesses, independent artists and such who use it to publicize themselves, and this is probably true, but such value is offset by the net loss to society caused by "some guy went to school with said a thing" distractions.
Filed under: Rational cost/benefit analysis of Facebook is a barrier to snark.
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but such value is offset by the net loss to society caused by "some guy went to school with said a thing" distractions.
Such is your opinion, which was my point.
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I hate no unsubscribe option, we're obviously not an Uber Customer.
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I hate no unsubscribe option, we're obviously not an Uber Customer.
And that's what the "this email is phishing" button is for.
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An excerpt of the broken English in a franchise business spam I got last night. While people in Tennessee do talk funny, they don't talk like this:
Rachel Collins, a proprietor of Dunkin Donuts in Nashville Tn is one lucky woman who has found her complement. Hear from her: âI have achieved my new companion in LocalVentures.org. They are similar to the girls in another block who accumulate for tea inside afternoon and discuss their business intelligence. My husband has loved the newest business because we've got more time for each and every other. I will even attend cocktail parties with him any day! Truly, LocalVentures.org has stored my marriage and my life all at the same timeâand thatâs simply just with doughnuts! What if I have gone for that other opportunities, correct? â
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While people in Tennessee do talk funny, they don't talk like this
You're right, that was mostly intelligible.
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Couple of good ones in my work email this morning:
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Fairly standard markov chain, but what came up in the preview made me double take: