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Mister Kingdom posted:The Norton emails I've been getting use weird non-English versions of English letters. Unicode is a gently caress.
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# ? May 26, 2021 02:58 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:44 |
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Midjack posted:Unicode is a gently caress. Born to send Unicode is a gently caress Kill em all 1978 I am mail man 410,757,864,530 DISTINCT CHARACTERS
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# ? May 26, 2021 03:03 |
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Here's a new twist on an old one. Received this in my inbox this morning. Nothing was changed/deleted: Stifft, Frank <f.stifft@zuyderland.nl> 12:31 AM (6 hours ago) to info@ronforrun.com.biz Mr. & Mrs. Patrick and Frances Connolly has nominated you for three million, five hundred British pounds for you to help the less privilege within your community. Contact them by their email address patrickconnolly3391@email.ch for more details. Announcer.
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# ? May 28, 2021 13:02 |
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What's the new twist that I'm apparently not seeing?
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# ? May 28, 2021 17:14 |
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Volmarias posted:What's the new twist that I'm apparently not seeing? IDK, I guess they're going to just give me millions of dollars to help my community as opposed to giving me millions to deposit a Nigerian prince's money in my bank account?
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# ? May 28, 2021 17:58 |
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Oh, I've seen that angle for quite a while, hence the lack of surprise. 419eater has plenty of examples to look at!
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# ? May 28, 2021 21:05 |
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This particular one is new to me. I usually get the fake job ones: "Make $3,000 a week working from home!"
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# ? May 28, 2021 21:26 |
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I'll admit that I never get those, even just in the spam folder. 419s have mostly disappeared for me but there's still an occasional one. Want to swap? I've got Hot Singles, Delivery Failure, Cheap Manufacturing (?!), We Have Your Password From Fifteen Years Ago, and Lending Tree. The last one is technically legit but they don't actually take unsubscribe for an answer, and it's been over a decade. I also sometimes get "Let Me, The Spammer, Build Your Website Out" and I simply do not understand why anyone would go for that one, but that's at least semi targeted.
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# ? May 29, 2021 22:11 |
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Volmarias posted:I also sometimes get "Let Me, The Spammer, Build Your Website Out" and I simply do not understand why anyone would go for that one, but that's at least semi targeted. I got a poo poo ton of these when I started a website purely for personal use, and outside of my web host selling my information (entirely plausible) I still have no idea how it got into the hands of so many spammers because I didn't advertise or do anything to put that information out there.
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# ? May 30, 2021 00:53 |
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Simsmagic posted:I got a poo poo ton of these when I started a website purely for personal use, and outside of my web host selling my information (entirely plausible) I still have no idea how it got into the hands of so many spammers because I didn't advertise or do anything to put that information out there. Is it in your whois info?
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# ? May 30, 2021 02:01 |
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I had a collection of the penis pill spams I was inundated with for a while a couple of years ago but I lost it in a glitch. My favourite was 'little blue pills to help you squeeze her dry!'
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# ? May 30, 2021 03:05 |
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The worst and most common spam I get are from seemingly ‘legit’ companies like Splash Wine or Liberty Mutual resellers that I’ve never expressed any interest in, but seeing the rotating email addresses used to try avoid my blocks makes me know I definitely should not hit that unsubscribe button. My ‘I only give out this email to people and services I really trust’ account still gets only very rare spam at least.
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# ? May 30, 2021 16:41 |
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Was there a recent data breach or something? I got eight scam calls yesterday, which is more phone calls than I usually get in a month.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 14:31 |
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In the UK? I got seven "HMRC ARE COMING TO ARREST YOU" calls yesterday morning.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 14:46 |
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I've heard, maybe in this thread, that it's probably just another group of scammers recycling a list of numbers from someone else.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 14:49 |
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They've always come in waves for as long as I've owned a cell phone. It'll be mostly dormant for a couple weeks and then I'll get bombarded with 25 of them across 3-4 days, then back to mostly silence. As regular as the tides.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 15:16 |
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It's just waves and your time is up, my wife and I were bombarded a week and a half ago but it's relatively quiet right now.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 16:41 |
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YggiDee posted:Was there a recent data breach or something? I got eight scam calls yesterday, which is more phone calls than I usually get in a month. Weird, I just had a friend ask me the same thing -- she got a ton over the weekend. Guess you guys are on the same lists.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 19:43 |
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hyperhazard posted:Weird, I just had a friend ask me the same thing -- she got a ton over the weekend. Guess you guys are on the same lists. I'm in the UK and I've noticed a huge influx over the last month. Both SMS and calls spoofed from numbers three digits different to mine.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 19:57 |
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At least in the US, I’ve heard there might be some spikes relating to scammers trying to test workarounds to STIR/SHAKEN before some deadlines land.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 20:24 |
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I'm in Ontario if that makes a difference but
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 20:40 |
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Blue Moonlight posted:At least in the US, I’ve heard there might be some spikes relating to scammers trying to test workarounds to STIR/SHAKEN before some deadlines land.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 21:29 |
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Tubgoat posted:What is that? To simplify it a great deal (and likely introduce some hopefully-forgivable inaccuracies), it basically is a signal a telecommunications provider adds to an incoming call indicating that they can guarantee the call is being made by equipment authorized for the given phone number. So, if my cell phone is 555-555-1212, and I call someone’s cell phone, they might get the OK that I’m legit, but if a spammer calls that same person with a spoofed number of 555-555-1212, they won’t get the OK. It won’t say it’s spoofed, it just won’t have the additional endorsement. It works fairly well between cell phones, or VOIP lines, but once there’s analog equipment in the mix, transfers between telecom providers, etc., it gets a bit iffy. On iPhones, you can check the call log - any incoming calls with a ☑️ symbol have been verified. Oddly, no toggle to only accept verified calls, which I’d prefer over the blanket “block anyone not in your contacts”, but so it goes for products.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 22:32 |
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It's the super special certified url bar where the padlock gets a green background, and absolutely no one notices it out understands what it means. It's a good start but IMO not sufficient.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 02:10 |
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Since everyone thinks it's clever to point this out now even though the concept has been around for ages: have there actually been any examples of people using "what is your favorite pet's name? or "what was your first car?" Facebook posts or online polls to harvest password reset questions en masse? Seems like a lot of effort considering that Facebook itself doesn't have security questions.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 12:14 |
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lavaca posted:Facebook itself doesn't have security questions.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 21:48 |
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I hadn't thought about it but MLM's have really made out during Covid 19 and it makes prefect sense https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7eb34/mlm-arbonne-coronavirus-recruitment quote:“With everything going on with coronavirus and the way that the world is being impacted,” she says earnestly, “if you have any doubt in your mind about your future or any concern that you might not be able to make a payment or that your health isn’t the best, and you’re worried that this is something that is going to seriously affect you, then just reach out to me and let’s just have a conversation.”
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 23:34 |
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# ? Jun 4, 2021 00:01 |
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I turned 40 the other week and all the ads and spam I'm getting switched over to older man spam immediately, it's depressing.
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# ? Jun 4, 2021 10:03 |
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cakesmith handyman posted:I turned 40 the other week and all the ads and spam I'm getting switched over to older man spam immediately, it's depressing.
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# ? Jun 4, 2021 10:28 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I hadn't thought about it but MLM's have really made out during Covid 19 and it makes prefect sense Definitely dropped a few friends on Facebook seeing them try to prey on recently unemployed folks. Absolute scum.
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# ? Jun 5, 2021 16:48 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I hadn't thought about it but MLM's have really made out during Covid 19 and it makes prefect sense If you're still dumb or unaware enough to fall for an MLM in 2021 you probably deserve it tbh
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 18:23 |
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Cage Kicker posted:If you're still dumb or unaware enough to fall for an MLM in 2021 you probably deserve it tbh Here's your other post in this thread: Cage Kicker posted:Imagine being so cringy you remain trapped in a situation where you're free to leave at any time Quit blaming victims. It seems dumb as poo poo to us but plenty of people are even less financially sophisticated than we are and as such are easy pickings for the predators.
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 18:55 |
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Double fire
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 18:55 |
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What the gently caress awful app
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 18:56 |
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Quad damage.
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 18:56 |
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Multi level posting.
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 19:00 |
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Quit blaming multi-posting victims. It seems dumb as poo poo to us but plenty of people are even less technologically sophisticated than we are and as such are easy pickings for the mobile app. I agree with you but couldn't resist
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 22:15 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 22:38 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:44 |
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Midjack posted:
Go gently caress yourself, if you fall for an OBVIOUS SCAM you are at least partly to blame for not exercising better judgement.
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# ? Jun 8, 2021 23:33 |