Latest Email Scam

Jeremy Falcon

MehGerbil wrote:

If dumb people fall for that how are they not already broke?

Because I have free money to send you of course! You'd never go broke with all this free money I'm just giving away. I just need you to put in some credentials here...

Jeremy Falcon

PIEBALDconsult

If you keep your money in your mattress and only have an empty bank account for receiving such funds; then you're safe.

OriginalGriff

Wayne Rooney is a footballer, with a possibly negative IQ. He earns gets paid £300,000 per week.

MehGerbil wrote:

How much money can the people stupid enough to fall for this sort of thing have to steal?

Lots?

You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

ZurdoDev

If I received an email that said to hit a link, I'm not sure I could resist. Do it. Do it now!

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

jeron1

OriginalGriff wrote:

gets paid £300,000 per week

Kinda wish I was so 'stupid'. :sigh:

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst

R Erasmus

Now if they really wanted to uploaded a virus only my system they should have send me a job offering... E.g. Open this word document to view the job details.

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << please vote!! >>

sir_download_alot

In my everyday life I get sometimes the impression there are only 10% intelligent People on this planet ;P

Sander Rossel

The real question is: Is there such a thing as too much porn? :D

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}

Sander Rossel

Seems legit.

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}

Cristian Amarie

It's an infected file from Dropbox (in variant we received). Here is one analysis: https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/c6e61f29b7acd0a8fc147eabb756d33c70a17073e84c06b2632d19930cabcfc6/analysis/1408016349/[^]

PaulFlats

And they are the ones scamming :)

Lost User

10%? That high? It seems more like we're all at varying levels of un-intelligence :) There are probably rare exceptions, but I can't think of any.

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

Lost User

Ah, but he does devote a lot of his own time and money entertaining the elderly..

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

Lost User

I'm halfway there, woo-hoo.. now all I need is a mattress full of money.

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

G Tek

Ah, the eternal optimist :)

G Tek

I seem to remember someone posting on CP a while ago that these phishing messages were written with intentionally poor grammar and spelling so that they target the more uneducated that are seemingly more liable to fall for the scam. That way they are focussing their efforts. Not sure on the legitimacy of that claim, but I can see some of the logic.

Tomz_KV

This kind of scam has been going on for many years. But some people are still tricked into it, simply because of "trust", especially when a scam is in the name of charity.

TOMZ_KV

Alexander DiMauro

MehGerbil wrote:

When I see stupid phishing attempts like this I always wonder: "How much money can the people stupid enough to fall for this sort of thing have to steal?"

This is the saddest part about the whole thing. They target poor and the elderly. Those types of people fall for this, not 'stupid' people as everyone is saying. Someone with very little money may see that and click without thinking out of desperation. Also, elderly people who have no idea how the Internet works fall for it. They are ignorant, not stupid. I've taught elderly how to use computers before, and they are not stupid, it's just a different world for them. Just wait until you grow old and technology has left you behind, and see how you feel. That's what makes these people the scum of the earth, they not only steal, they target the less fortunate and the elderly who don't know any better. They know that rich people are less likely to fall for it, so they target the less fortunate. And for that, to bring back one of my favorite quotes from Shepherd Book, they deserve to burn in a very 'special hell'.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

9082365

G-Tek wrote:

these phishing messages were written with intentionally poor grammar and spelling

This is the conclusion reached by the Freakonomics team and published in "Think Like A Freak" and other works thereof. It makes sense. Your average scammer doesn't want to be bothered with anybody who has the nous to spot the danger at some point. That's just wasted time and effort for no reward. So they're more than happy for the likes of us to dismiss their mail as spam/scam and maybe have a giggle at the ineptitude before binning it. It's zero loss after all (they don't even have to pay for postage any more). Their only interest is in those who can be fooled.

PhilLenoir

I've always thought of negative IQ as someone so stupid that when they enter a room, the entire room becomes less intelligent. We've all met them!

Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.