📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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@mott555 said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I'd have to find a new WordPress plugin for that.
You couldn't add, like, a "what's two plus two" box, and have that be included in the email body?
edit: or "type the word 'rhubarb' in this box"... then filter emails not containing the word "rhubarb" straight to trash.
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@anotherusername The contact form is a black-box WordPress plugin. I don't want to modify it, I might risk getting some PHP on me, and I'm not going to change things unless the level of spam increases enough to be annoying.
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Not emails, but I've now gotten several voicemails on my work extension (which is set to silence and instead forwards the voicemails as .wav files to my email) from people who believe that that number belongs to a golf-cart repair place. The one I got today seems to have gotten the number from the previous one, who called for an update on his golf cart.
How one confuses a school number (that you need an extension to call directly) with a golf-cart repair business I'm not sure. If it were a normal number I'd understand. But dialing an extension?
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@Benjamin-Hall sounds like prank calls from kids.
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@boomzilla said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall sounds like prank calls from kids.
Except the voices are very much adults. One middle-aged male, one older (older than the guy) female.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
who called for an update on his golf cart.
Next time, spin them a story. Something like their golf cart was accidentally parted out and sold on Craigslist by an employee trying to raise some meth money, or it was taken for a test joyride on the nearby beach and got flattened by a suddenly-beaching whale carcass.
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@mott555 I never actually hear the calls in real-time, because our phones don't ring. Period. Anything important is done via email. Parents call once in a blue moon, and then I call back when I can. Or I call out. But all incoming calls go to voicemail.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
How one confuses a school number (that you need an extension to call directly) with a golf-cart repair business I'm not sure.
A previous home number used to be confused all the time with a taxi hire place.
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The spammers made a typo in the subject so they resent the mails.
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Uh, Do I sunglasses outlet?
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Polite spam for a real service is still spam, Jillian. You're clearly mass-sending those messages. If you want to know about our services it's all on our webpage.
For the curious: "Connectise" handles company expansions to Singapore, which is not exactly on our radar right now.But TRWTF is that another employee responded with a long introduction
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Today, I got a bunch of messages in my WordPress comment queue with the comment, "Don't wear seatbelts lest you drown in your own urine?"
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@mott555 said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Today, I got a bunch of messages in my WordPress comment queue with the comment, "Don't wear seatbelts lest you drown in your own urine?"
The "The Official Likes Topic" robot is leaking?
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@mott555 said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Today, I got a bunch of messages in my WordPress comment queue with the comment, "Don't wear seatbelts lest you drown in your own urine?"
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Snipped from spam from WeTransfer
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Eh...you mean the one you just sent this spam to?
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@boomzilla said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Eh...you mean the one you just sent this spam to?
No, the one you keep your dick pics in.
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Apparently this one was sent by the new Google Amazon Web Services.
All of the links in this email are
mailto:
addresses. Yes, all of them.
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All of the links in this email are also
mailto:
. Apparently I signed up for a mailing list about my email address or something?
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United States Embassy Seal
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Heeelpppp mmmyyy keeybboardd is stuuuck
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oh no is this dangerous
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you have been AUTOMATICALLY SELECTED to receive this SPAM EMAIL
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Ben, you get a lot better spam than I do. And more if it. What's your secret?
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@El_Heffe said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
Ben, you get a lot better spam than I do. And more if it. What's your secret?
one time I accidentally clicked unsubscribe on a spam email
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@El_Heffe said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
What's your secret?
He doesn't keep his email address secret.
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ok, thanks
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@ben_lubar I feel like that gmail warning is still too subtle for the kind of person that would fall for an email scam.
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Received a standard recruiting spam via LinkedIn (according to the email - no trace in my LI inbox). I'm in a bit of a rude mood, so...
If you actually looked at my LinkedIn profile:
a) You would see I am not skilled in full stack. I'm a Windows C++ dev.
b) This email is in no way associated with LinkedIn, hence this is spam.
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@dcon Hope you sent that to LinkedIn vs to them. Waste of time otherwise.
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@Gribnit said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@dcon Hope you sent that to LinkedIn vs to them. Waste of time otherwise.
That would mean looking up their linkedin profile.
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TIL DivX is still a thing.
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So today I got cc'ed on a recruiter spam, apparently they had reviewed everyone's resume and wanted to present all of us. Seemed like a good time to use reply all.
In case you got an email today that seems to stem from this incident - this kind of stuff happens all the time and it wasn't me.
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@loopback0 Is that the codec DivX or the Circuit City keep-the-disc-and-pay-to-watch-it format?
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@loopback0 The last time I was using DivX/XviD was when Windows XP was the OS of choice to screw over my encodes with a mistimed Windows Update. Those were the days~
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@ben_lubar Is that some sort of clever directed spambotting? Look for programming questions on Twitter and then send spam of the "I'm a girl who needs to be fucked" variety going for the stereotype that all programmers/computer nerds are lonely men who's desperate to feel the touch of a woman?
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@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@ben_lubar Is that some sort of clever directed spambotting? Look for programming questions on Twitter and then send spam of the "I'm a girl who needs to be fucked" variety going for the stereotype that all programmers/computer nerds are lonely men who's desperate to feel the touch of a woman?
I mean he's married and has a baby, so probably not any intelligent algorithm.
I've seen some of those spambots on SwiftOnSecurity's replies as well.
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
I mean he's married and has a baby
For all we know from these pictures, he might be a baby-kidnapper taunting the victim's parents...
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@ben_lubar said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
he's married and has a baby
Poor baby, to have a dad with a face like that.
Not that my kids don't have the same problem, but fortunately they didn't inherit my ... less attractive ... facial features.
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Guess they've given up on sending these via USmail now...
(there was more to the email, but
to knit multiple images together)
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How about spam texts?
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@Polygeekery That looks more like a "simple" wrong number...
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@dcon I get them 5+ times a week from the LA county area code. They all follow the same type of script and they always want you to accept payment via credit card. I bet if you ever took a project from one of them the charges would either never come through or would be reversed.
Anyone who wants to give them a call and tell them to go fuck their hat can go right ahead.
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And another one.
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@Polygeekery Ah. Yeah, spam. <Block/> Somehow I just get the spam phone calls, not texts. (recording starts, "fuck you", click, block)
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This is the modern version of "Bill Gates is giving away 100 million dollars to everyone who resends to this email".
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@anonymous234 Yes and no. Those old emails didn't link anywhere IIRC.
I've opened one of those links in the past and they seem to require you to transfer a given amount of Bitcoin to "register your receiving address".
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I got this link in a spam email, and it's bizarre.
It starts with something that kinda sounds like free money - as expected from a spam/scam site, but then warns you that it won't work. Then it repeats the same sentences 3 times.
Then some meaningless words and links that don't lead anywhere. Create up-to-date!
Then it finally asks for 0.02BTC (that's 114€) to "Download File". The payment seems legit, though I'm not spending 114€ to check what's in the file.
Bonus: it uses this "payment processor" library. Check it out, they have a fucking certificate on their site