Getting annoyed by bitcoin scammers on reddit and telegram.
I stringed one along just out of curiosity. They will assist you in setting up a bitcoin mining setup, but they will take 10% of their cut.
I’m not that daft. Most possibly the mining setup involves pushing out bitcoin miners to other people’s PC’s and the such.
Then most possibly a tug-of-war with other bitcoin miners who’ll want to use the same resources as you.
Nah, pass.
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
They aren’t even trying anymore.
I just got this on my phone:
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Unfortunately legit messages are also under threat of being mislabeled.
As an example :
Nearly deleted it, but clicked on the link and was grateful to see that it was NOT a scam, it was my vehicle licence on its way via courier which I have renewed online.
Don’t click on links. Copy them into ‘urlscan.io’ and let them detonate it.
I like the irony of telling us not to click on links, then giving us a link to click.
Thank you, will do that from now on.
Yeah, I know…
Although I would expect the denizens of CoG to manually type the URL into their browser, rather than trusting some random guy on the forums…
Oh noes! My PayPal account has been suspended! And I’m supposed to click on the link that starts with “mysp.ac” to fix it.
Really? Myspace? That’s the best brand name you could pick for your scam? You couldn’t use “twit.ur” or “face.buhk” or “insta.gram” or “tik.tok” or anything like that? You had to go with “mysp.ac”?
Ooookay. Deleting, moving on.
Lovely. And bonus points too.
Sudden legit-looking out-of-office replies from people I’ve never sent any emails to.
Luckily no nasty payloads was attached so far, which is a bit mindboggling, usually these come with some sort of email in order to exploit any vuknerabilities when opened.
And today I’ve received some soet of confirmation for a booking for training at some swanky resort which I’ve never booked for. That atttachment haven’t been opened yet, want to sort it out on a monday as we’ll need to look at adding this sort of thing to our email filters.
Buggery ne’er-do-wells trying allsorts of dirty trix just to get creepsy and tricksy and grabbeth all your money/data/whatever. Bastards.
It could be that the bad guys are using your email address in their “From” header. The victim gets the spam, you get the blow-back. Not much you can do about it, sadly.
Ja, I know about that one, and it is the most infuriating thing ever conceived.
A plan involving a fire ant nest should be good enough for these ne’er-do-wells.
But I’m too big a softy, will probably have a fire and bite said scammer/spammer and inform him/her that next time it’ll be a whole colony of ants.
Should be good enough to bring him/her on the straight and narrow.
Seriously guy, what is my surname?
C’mon, if you found it in “our database” then it means that you must know what my surname is?
Oh, you don’t? Get lost then.
Nasty databases, gollum.
Seriously? I haven’t seen one of these in years. Many, many years.
She’s still at it. It’s definitely the default name for whatever mass mailing program scammers and legitimate companies are using.
I’ve been getting some from a company that I did buy a ticket from for a Van Gogh exhibit. A month or two ago, it was an email for “The Friends Experience” (some sort of exhibit about the TV show).
Today’s was for “The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody”. Yes, it’s exactly what it says. The website shows the costumes are pretty accurate and apparently Yoda plays the banjo. Maybe as a parody of Kermit the Frog?
