📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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No I didn't add you, fuck off with that passive-aggressive bullshit.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
No I didn't add you, fuck off with that passive-aggressive bullshit.
You never know.
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If you really want me, maybe call me by my name, not my email address.
$12k/month? No thanks; that's less than I normally make.
Thunderbird is right.
Up to $11,000+? Is it up to, or more than? Per week? Now you're talking about significant money ... if I believed it was real, which of course it's not.
Calling me by my email address twice doesn't help.
Given that I'm applying for contract positions that are fully remote (and pay more than $12k/month), yes. However, I'm not interested in the non-existent job that you claim to be offering.
Why are your "confirm here" and "unsubscribe" links exactly the same? Could it be the only thing you really want confirmed is that email address is valid, so you can sell it to other spammers? Hmm...
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The winner of the "Recruiter Spam of the Day" for today:
Never mind that I do verification, not design. An onsite job in North Dakota, at the start of winter? Summer ain't exactly a ton of fun, either.From Wikipedia:
Because of its location in the Great Plains and its distance from both mountains and oceans, Fargo has an extreme humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), featuring long, bitterly cold winters and warm to hot, humid summers. It lies in USDA Plant hardiness zone 4a.[12] The city features winters among the coldest in the contiguous United States; the coldest month of January has a normal mean temperature of 9.2 °F (−12.7 °C). There is an annual average of 43 days with a minimum of 0 °F (−18 °C) or lower.[13] Snowfall averages 51.4 inches (131 cm) per season.[13] Spring and autumn are short and highly variable seasons. Summers have frequent thunderstorms, and the warmest month, July, has a normal mean temperature of 70.7 °F (21.5 °C); highs reach 90 °F (32 °C) on an average of 12.7 days each year.[13] Annual precipitation of 24.0 inches (610 mm) is concentrated in the warmer months. Record temperatures have ranged from −48 °F (−44 °C) on January 8, 1887, to 114 °F (46 °C) on July 6, 1936; the record coldest daily maximum is −29 °F (−34 °C) on January 22, 1936, while, conversely, the record warmest daily minimum was 82 °F (28 °C), set four days after the all-time record high.[14] On average, the first and last dates to see a minimum at or below the freezing mark are September 30 and May 8, respectively, allowing a growing season of 144 days.[13]
In 2011, Fargo won The Weather Channel's "America's Toughest Weather City" poll. After almost 850,000 votes, blizzards, cold, and floods secured the title for the city.[15]
How about no.
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Clbuttic:
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A bit of a tip on dealing with salespeople and their propensity for spamming you if you have a call with them:
But first a little backstory,
A week or two ago I spoke with a salesperson at a technology company. Nice guy, not high pressure, good call. I could tell he is not used to the people he speaks with cursing on calls. It was regarding the board room that we will be outfitting for teleconferencing. On the call I discovered that Zoom Rooms appliances allow you to join a "meeting" with no outside attendees and then share your stuff on the display the same as you can in a normal teleconferencing Zoom call. I remarked something like:
"Really? That's a pretty cool feature and making it simple for non-techy people to connect to TVs and displays has always been a challenge. But since the world became a dumpster fire most everyone has gotten well acquainted with using Zoom."
"Yeah, it is very intuitive for most people and really lowers the barrier to entry for the less technologically savvy."
"Yeah, I could see that. But let's be real here. The more you idiot proof anything the more the world challenges you by creating bigger fucking idiots. I have no doubt that there will be those that will manage to not understand this and fuck it all up in new and interesting ways."I didn't get the impression that he was offended by what I said, but he certainly seemed caught off-guard by my choice of words.
Anyway, as is the case with talking to salespeople, I get in their CRM and get the scheduled generic follow-up emails. I get it. They either send the periodic emails and attempt to keep the sales process moving and keep you thinking about them, or they get forgotten. I don't take offense to it.
What I find works is to politely ask them to either turn down the frequency of emails and if they can't to please turn them off. In most CRM they should be able to turn down the frequency and I have never had a salesperson say anything other than some variation of:
Not a problem, I totally understand.
Sometimes they will even express appreciation for you asking them to do so and not just have all of their emails sent to spam.
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@Polygeekery said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I didn't get the impression that he was offended by what I said, but he certainly seemed caught off-guard by my choice of words.
You sure he wasn't caught off-guard because of your excellent observation?
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@Zecc said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
You sure he wasn't caught off-guard because of your excellent observation?
He seemed to be pleasant but stuffy and the picture that came through as his email avatar made him look like a Mormon missionary, so it could go either way.
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@Polygeekery said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
avatar made him look like a Mormon missionary
Ah, yeah, that'll do 'er.
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@Polygeekery said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
fuck it all up in new and interesting ways
We are looking forward to seeing many examples here on WDTWTF.
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Just received an important reminder from WhatsCrapp:
You have a new voice mail.
Wow, really wow, because ...
I do not have a WhatsCrapp account.The link on the
Play
button goes to:
http://光影朦胧.media/detectsa.php?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=impacting
Google Translate tells me that the heap of chinese characters are read
Guāngyǐng ménglóng
, and meanhazy
.
Also interesting:
Received: from 25.235.169.192.host.secureserver.net ([192.169.235.25])
Sic:
secureserver
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
secureserver
GoDaddy names their infrastructure for maximum irony.
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@Polygeekery said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
GoDaddy names their infrastructure for maximum irony.
So does Microsoft.
From the headers of a spam mail:Received: from NAM04-DM6-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.102.94])
Sic:
.protection.
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Polygeekery said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
GoDaddy names their infrastructure for maximum irony.
So does Microsoft.
From the headers of a spam mail:Received: from NAM04-DM6-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.102.94])
Sic:
.protection.
They were originally going to name it outbound.condom.outlook.com, but corporate thought that was much too unrealistic for a bunch of computer programmers.
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Guys we've done it!
Now who wants to scambait?
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@Tsaukpaetra with that kind of security aren't we immune?
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Silly Reagan!
...
I don't feel able to overcome to figure out what the japanese want...
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Status: Really helpful Google. Can't tell me the content or anything other than "Someone sent us this email and it was marked spam. ACTION REQUIRED!"
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According to today's spam, I can borrow up to $5000 from servicephp host.
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From my email spam folder:
Don't quite remember, was to busy to post this earlier, but I think the red square was our domain name ("www.initech.com {IT Support}") in the text part, but of course not IT support's email address1, and the green part was my mail address.
Yeah, because IT absolutely sends me emails to do the needful.
1 What do you actually call the free-form text and the real address in the from field, e.g. "Bob from IBM <randomspammer123@gmail.com>"?
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@topspin said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
What do you actually call the free-form text and the real address in the from field, e.g. "Bob from IBM <randomspammer123@gmail.com>"?
Display name and mailbox I think
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@topspin Ah, see: "Haltungskorrektur der Wirbelsäule" - the spammer knows about your posts on a predator following you for a couple of seconds...
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Those spammers were lazy:
From: Hinweis fur {berniethebernie} rmphpbqfkd<prestprest.mdnhgsffkv@xivpmybcsv.eitgcnynqv.com> To: fdgfg kbe76uf1ps <oliverskinner006@yahoo.com> Subject: Auftragsbestatigung – NinjaAiFryer: hi ivwiutyhmn Thread-Topic: hi horgfiufth Sender: <tevydolhhk@restedusoon34.onmicrosoft.com>
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In today's not-really-spam email, the subject line could be generalized to
How many tools do you need?
The answer, of course, is "at least one more than I have."
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Dear Spammers, please make sure that the links you embedded in your spam email actually could work...,
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@BernieTheBernie Is that Linux or are you running one of the least bad versions of Windows?
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@Zecc That's Atari.
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@BernieTheBernie I didn’t know com6025 was a valid TLD.
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@Arantor Never have you been required to write your correct email address into the
FROM
header...
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@BernieTheBernie no, but the sane providers check the From and the Return-To for existence and compliance to things like SPF and DKIM…
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@Arantor said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie no, but the sane providers check the From and the Return-To for existence and compliance to things like SPF and DKIM…
QED
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@Arantor said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie I didn’t know com6025 was a valid TLD.
I'd make a joke, but this isn't the .
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@Zerosquare Well then, by all means, remain serious
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Zerosquare Well then, by all means, remain serious
When you can't even style your spoof training email to look legit enough...
'course this guy totally clicked it.
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That's a funny failure mode. The Gist is perfectly accessible, but even if it wasn't, whytf would embed a forum title bar there?
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@LaoC said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
That's a funny failure mode. The Gist is perfectly accessible, but even if it wasn't, whytf would embed a forum title bar there?You didn't put httpa there so it made it a relative link and cut out the domain part?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@LaoC said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
That's a funny failure mode. The Gist is perfectly accessible, but even if it wasn't, whytf would embed a forum title bar there?You didn't put httpa there so it made it a relative link and cut out the domain part?
Nah, I should have linked @BernieTheBernie's post which looks like this, at least here. The link he posted is fine.
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@LaoC Ah, right. iFramely doing a weird then...
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My McAfee Total Protection license has expired, tells me
"GMX Magazin" <ZOMWtyi@pardisnews.com>
:
The whole email links tosdfsdfdsfsdf.syd1.digitaloceanspaces.com/mcfdeeee.html
thus disallowing for selecting text. What a dangerous thing - a click into it (for selecting the text) opens the default browser with that page...
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@BernieTheBernie They do not yet give up. Today they alerted me that my system recognized 828 viruses. Wow! They'd better contact CDC than me in such a case.
Again, they use the very creatively named sub-sub-domain fosdfsdfsdfsdf
. But they decided to change the page name -mcafeee de.html
, and the email was in german this time.
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Hmm, that looks legit. I wonder where the link goes to.
h t t p s : / / trknglinkazueprof.blob.core.windows.net/trkazurepro/LLDKDKDK.html
Yeah, that looks totally trustworthy. I'm sure I'll be unsubscribed if I click that.
And the address is totally real, too.
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Do you really think if you use weird unicode characters to get through email filters, I won't immediately mark you as spam?
And yes, it's on Beall's list of predatory journals.
Јοin to be the Lead Guest Εditоr:
Once the prοpοsаl is accepted, you will ѕҽrvҽ as the Lead Guest Εditоr. It is an honorary position. What roles and bеnеfіts the Lead Guest Εditоr have are listed below:- Obtain the Certificate of Honor in electronic format;
- Establish the prestige in your аcаdemіc field;
- Be at the forefront of information exchange in your area of rеsеarсh;
- Network with ѕcһolars over the world.
Oh yes, the prestige. I do the prestige all the time. Fuck you, pay me $45000.
The really clever part is that they mask their own crap and then include "excerpts" stolen from your text so you're basically training spam filters against your own work.
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I got some malware / phishing spam about:
Please attached is the new shipment plan for the materials
It purports to contain some Excel file, but really links to something on sharepoint.com:
Now, without visiting it, my question is: what's the deal here?
Is it just going to contain an Excel macro virus? Some malware directly hosted on sharepoint? Or is it somehow going to steal your MS credentials when sharepoint.com forwards you to your own SSO thing?Because the whole "all of our stuff goes through an MS login now" is so completely intransparent, I have no clue anymore what it actually does.
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@topspin All of that, of course.
Beyond that, are you sure that the domain name does not contain cyrillic characters which look like latin ones?
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@BernieTheBernie said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@topspin All of that, of course.
Beyond that, are you sure that the domain name does not contain cyrillic characters which look like latin ones?Not really, but all of that is "standard" phishing crap.
What I'm really interested is if just opening somebody else's sharepoint subdomain can itself be used to steal credentials or something similar.
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spam of the day:
Most of what's blacked-out in that screenshot is my own domain name. Um, I'm very sure nobody at chirika.co.jp is an administrator of my domain. If anybody with an administrative interest in my domain (other than me) would be contacting me, that somebody would be with my ISP, which hosts my domain and through which I registered it and renew the registration; they're definitely not a .jp domain. The link in the email definitely wouldn't go to bing.com/long_opaque_parameter_string; the email would tell me to me to log into my account at https://members.myISP.example.com/. Finally, my password hasn't expired in 20 years; it's damned unlikely to expire in a few hours.
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@HardwareGeek I got almost the exact same one a couple days ago. Wasn't from
.jp
, but was definitely some other bogus address (not my domain host).
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Well I sure hope mr Customer is greateful fur teh Suscriztion.
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Status: Better than being a horrible person?