Latest Email Scam
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In my everyday life I get sometimes the impression there are only 10% intelligent People on this planet ;P
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In my everyday life I get sometimes the impression there are only 10% intelligent People on this planet ;P
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.
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If you keep your money in your mattress and only have an empty bank account for receiving such funds; then you're safe.
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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)
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In my everyday life I get sometimes the impression there are only 10% intelligent People on this planet ;P
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
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.
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
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.
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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.
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.
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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)
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.
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
people, at least in this country (US) are stupid, look who they elected as president a second time.
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
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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.
They say that you can't scam an honest person. If you've been sent money from someone you don't know, surely the honest thing to do would be to hit reply and say "I think this is a mistake". Now the best scam would be to mine someones contact list and send using a known name, but still, the question should be "why is MehGerbil sending me money?" Unfortunately, there are plenty of vulnerable, gullible and stupid people who are also greedy!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It's an infected file from Dropbox (in variant we received). Here is one analysis: https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/c6e61f29b7acd0a8fc147eabb756d33c70a17073e84c06b2632d19930cabcfc6/analysis/1408016349/[^]
is anybody else concerned by how many 'green ticks' there are for that? Now I know 'we' on CP would never run anything on our computers, but we do all head tech support for the family right? They are not so wise!
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people, at least in this country (US) are stupid, look who they elected as president a second time.
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If they're US-American the government gives it to them. And remember, the average person's IQ is 100.
Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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is anybody else concerned by how many 'green ticks' there are for that? Now I know 'we' on CP would never run anything on our computers, but we do all head tech support for the family right? They are not so wise!
It just appeared on our radar 24 hours or less. AFAIK, signature will get released any time from our AV labs as well. It's also a polymorphic one (if I got this one right), that's why analysts performs more tests on this one. Also, if one reads VirusTotal list, it can be seen that: - two vendors name it Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.BCISU and second Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.CISU (good thing a letter differ between two different vendors) - others name it Trojan/Generic or Malware Gen, which is usually another name for "we know is doing something bad but we don't really know what is" - Symantec signed it with Suspicious.Cloud.5 which is documented from 2010, but the virus is first seen on 2014/08/14 (yesterday); I don't know what to think here - Sophos name it AIJV[^] and also mention it as AviraTR/Agent.CISU.1 (CISU again !) All in all, I'm not in an AV guy, but I know enough to read between the lines that this is 1. an 1-day item 2. drops on computer only if clicked and downloaded and executed (from Dropbox in the sample I have seen) 3. quite easy to detect and remove (registry key modification, relatively large size - 188 Kb) * * * That does not mean it is something the regular user can ignore. But they do. No matter how many times I tell my father "if someone you don't know and looks suspicious pops up at the door, do you let him in? it's the same with programs; you don't know what is, you don't trust who did it or why pops, close it and never look back" he keeps clicking on Yes on anything it moves. I promised myself than one day I will do a MessageBox with something like "Is your mom a very nasy slut?" I bet that at least 75% of the users will click on yes.
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Here are the latest email scams I've received: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolanda Holloway has sent a money to you. [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more info about this issue. Regards, First Bancorp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently, Yolanda isn't the only one giving out money to total strangers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have got a funds from Omar Richardson. Transaction REF: OIR41165212481 Total amount: $276 [link removed] Please hit the link given at the top to view more details about this issue. Regards, Security Service Federal Credit Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?"
Another variant using payment: ===Begin of message=== You have received a funds from Alexander Mcknight. Payment number: RHI <some number> Amount of transfer: $ <number amount> Open your payment details Please visit the link provided above to have more details about your order. Regards, Lloyd Banking Group. ===End of message=== Just reading the message: 1. You have received "a funds". 2. Payment number, then payment details, and finally "your order" ? 3. How many times a bank send a link? I have never seen one. Clearly it wasn't written by someone with and en-US mother tongue. I would never open such a message
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If they're US-American the government gives it to them. And remember, the average person's IQ is 100.
Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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There are about 7 billion people on the planet. I have no idea how many of them are on the internet, but assume roughly 50% - that's 3.5 billion people. Judging by what some people say[^], the proportion of dumb people on the internet is pretty high. But, for argument's sake, let's assume it's around 1%. That's 35 million dumb people. If you can steal $1* from each of those people, most people would consider that a success. * Unless it's a Zimbabwean dollar.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
