đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘
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I watched this talk this morning about replying to Spam emails, it was hilarious:
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talk
"We need to have a code" The fact that the scammer was willing to actually do it....
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8/10. Needs more artwork (at 60% of the page, no anchors to link to).
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The (crazy?) thing here is it eventually links to real rehab clinics. One would guess that such a noble profession as helping folks wouldn't result in spam.
They even provide helpful unsubscribe where they ask very politely for your email address so they can stop sending you messages.
Pfäeffikon is apparently a real place in Zßrich. Note that it's not to be confused with Pfäeffikon SZ on Lake Zurich but in Schwyz.
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I get this in my inbox every now and then.
I have an apple id attached to my work email but not this personal email address.
One day I'll do a password reset on this for shits and giggles to see if it works
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I get this in my inbox every now and then.
I get quite a lot of those. Unfortunately for them (and to my amusement), they show up as being from
Aplle Store <info@mbox.marcosgarage.it>
. Because corporate communications are going to use some random third party provider and speel their name worng?
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Company legal bod had this through today so it's gone to the right person. All the information is correct, the attachment is a .docm that's blank with a couple of macros I couldn't decipher. I called the DVSA and they had a recorded message warning about this scam.
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the attachment is a .docm that's blank
Golly, they couldn't have even tried to put something like "If your receipt appears blank, look for this and click that"?
Lazy.
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He was stranded there in 1990 ...
In the 14-years since ...
When was he stranded?
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When was he stranded?
The email originally circulated in 2004. Apparently nobody's bothered to update it.
It's OK, though, he made it back to earth: Mir re-entered the Earths' atmosphere in 2001.
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Too many emails? Maybe you should stop spamming me then.
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This falls under "not spam, I think, but holy shit can you possibly make your emails look any more like a phishing attempt"...
The real kicker? It requires Java in the browser to actually click that "Open" button...
pls wait while I pound my head against this desk repeatedly.
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Cisco likely thought that no hacker would ever want Java on his/her machine, hence the message would remain safe!
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So much better than "Open your account by clicking here and logging in to see your message", amirite?
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The learn more link is less interesting than I expected for something named "unifap".
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The learn more link is less interesting than I expected for something named "unifap".
See? You're learning already.
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Eh, at least one of my online banking websites uses "fap"... it means Financial Account Portal or some such.
Kind of hard to believe that nobody realized how terrible of an acronym that is, but that's what it is...
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The learn more link is less interesting than I expected for something named "unifap".
The "Learn more" link deceptively appears to have anything to do with the domain at all. Would have been more accurate to just put "This message wasn't encrypted" than that...
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No! Wait, don't cut off! You never told me what is the reason!
Now I HAVE to click that button. Trump's wisdom is just too enticing to resist.
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The real kicker? It requires Java in the browser to actually click that "Open" button...
pls wait while I pound my head against this desk repeatedly.
If this is legit, and not a cloned knock-off email, it looks like it uses the same crappy software that a certain largest US bank uses to deliver secure messages. I have to deal with them from time-to-time, and this is how the bank responds via email for corporate-level service calls.
The legit software used to be Iron Port. The bank portal still shows the original name, so they may not have updated for a while...like, years! (The referenced announcement is from 2007.)
Oddly, it looks like the portal hasn't improved much since Cisco took it over.
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Oddly, it looks like the portal hasn't improved much since Cisco took it over.
Yes it has! It has the Cisco logo on it! That means it must be ever so much better, yes?
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A run of the mill phishing email, except that it is in Brazilian Portuguese, which I can't read, and it was sent to a list of programmers, who are presumably too knowledgeable to fall for phishing scams.
The "Confirm" button goes to unih.co. The "More Information" button does nothing at all; it's styled to look like it should, including changing the pointer on mouse-over, but it's actually neither a button nor link, just a
div
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That sneaky Obama, always starting new cabals and trying to silence patriotic spammers who are fighting his dastardly schemes.
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Mind you, "Obama's Hackers" would be a great name for a rock band. Or techno. Or some kind of jazz fusion thing. Something like that.
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Yeah it wouldn't work for a boys band or a church choir.
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That sneaky Obama, always starting new cabals and trying to silence patriotic spammers who are fighting his dastardly schemes.
...and always being born in Kenya, no matter what the birth certificates say...
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You mean the birth certificate that was really obviously scanned, erased, and typed on top of in Arial font? That birth certificate?
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Well, it does say he was born in Kenya.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf
It's just that he isn't President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
That'd be like saying George W Bush couldn't be president because he already served 8 years.
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Oh, you're funny. Of course it says his father was born in Kenya, everyone knows that and it's not being debated.
That's not the one I was referring to, though. It's the one that was miraculously discovered after everyone pointed out how obviously fake the first one was.
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Coincidentally, his father was also named Barack Obama, so I can see where the confusion would come from.
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You are pizza? Count me in!
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- Hilariously backward
- Pretty nicely sad story, if badly written
- I cannot help imagining the "JUH" yelled when it appears.
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Her husband probably died because you have to punch him in the stomach every time he wants to say his surname.
TIL there are 28 Juhs in the US. http://forebears.io/surnames/juh
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@Boner said in The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
TIL there are 28 Juhs in the US.
That name reminds me of the first name of the current Secretary of Homeland Security:
Jeh Juh would be an outstanding name.
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Ok, these people aren't even trying:
**From:** Linkedin [liinkedng@outlook.org] **To:** abarker@work **Subject:** Linkedin Update, ``` text Dear Linkedin User
Due to the recent upgrade in linkedin you have to upgrade your account to keep using linkedin or your account will be terminated.
In order to login click the link below
http://www.tukasainn.com/li/e/sign.htm
to login and wait for responds from linkedin.
We apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Regards
LINKEDIN.
</blockquote>
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Huh. I just noticed that emoji replacements aren't applied to topic titles...
That's... strangely discoursistent actually.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
That's... strangely discoursistent actually.
Actually, that's more consistent than anything. Titles don't accept HTML or Markdown, so why would they accept emoji?
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Actually, that's more consistent than anything. Titles don't accept HTML or Markdown, so why would they accept emoji?
In that case, maybe the quotation tool should escape the emoji replacements so that it appears exactly like the title when quoted? Just sayin'. ;)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
Actually, that's more consistent than anything. Titles don't accept HTML or Markdown, so why would they accept emoji?
In that case, maybe the quotation tool should escape the emoji replacements so that it appears exactly like the title when quoted? Just sayin'. ;)
I don't know of any way to escape emoji, unfortunately.
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
I don't know of any way to escape emoji, unfortunately.
See, this is why I suck at naming things. I'm talking about the glyph that shows up in place of (for example
:email:
turns into )
@ben_lubar said in The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
should be@ben_lubar said in :âemail: The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah, but I'm not about to submit a pull request that says "hey, you should insert zero-width joiners after all your colons".
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
"hey, you should insert zero-width joiners after all your colons".
That would be funny!
And not all colons, just colons that might trigger the emoji replacement thing. ;)
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
"hey, you should insert zero-width joiners after all your colons".
of course!
the correct character would be ZWNJ not ZWJ
and yeah that should be done in titles, ne?
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@ben_lubar said in đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘:
zero-width joiners after all your colons
Helps with constipation