I keep banging on about this stuff, but this phishing attempt (in the same way that most do) really makes me laugh. Because it’s sooooo crap, and so obviously false. This is one that you’d have to be really stupid to fall for (in as much as a lot of the other ones I’ve seen look professional enough that the untrained eye could easily fall for it)… just read the text, consider the grammar, the typo’s, the language… everything. Classic.
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I highlighted a few of the bits that are wrooooong. I hope a phisher doesn’t read this, take my advice then actually create a good one of these. Um.
Yep, I’ve had all the “Warning eBay is about to delete your account so fill in your details at this random website and it’ll be fine…” rubbish, but this time someone actually purchased my item! Woohoo.
Hello dear seller,
Am Mr raw mills, one of the chinese delegate on Communication Matter.Am interested in purchasing your product for a good friend of mine who is a governor in Lagos Nigeria on his 57th Birthday, which is coming up very soon. Please, my mode of payment is with Postal Order. Kindly mail me your name andaddress so i can pay nowTHIS IS THE SHIPPING NAME AND ADDRESS
yinka baruwa
11 tejuosho street
surulere yaba
lagos
Nigeria
THANKS
closely followed by:
HOW ARE YOU DOING,I WILL LIKE TO CONTINUE THE PURCHACE THE YOUR ITEM,I WILL PAY YOU £120.00 INCLUDING THE SHIPMENT COST OF THE ITEM SENDING IT VIA ROYAL MAIL, DHL OR FEDEX, I AM BUYING IT FOR MY FIANCEE IN NIGERIA AS A BIRTH DAY GIFT,AS I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE THERE DUE TO THE DISTANCE,WELL AS FOR THE PAYMENT I WILL BE PAYING VIA BIDPAY. BECAUSE I AM A REGISTERED BIDPAY MEMBER AND I HAVE BEEN USING IT FOR THE PAST 2YEARS IT’S VERY SECURED, IF YOU DON’T HAVE A BIDPAY ACCOUNT THERE’S NO PROBLEM, THE PAYMENT WILL PROCEED IT’S NOT COMPULSORY THAT THE SELLER HAS AN ACCOUNT.SO I WILL MAKE THE PAYMENT VIA BIDPAY AS SOON AS I GET YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS,YOU WANT FOR THE DELIVERY OF YOUR MONEY BY THE BIDPAY AGENTS.THEY BIDPAY WILL SEND A PAYMENT NOTIFICATION TO YOU AS SOON AS THE PAYMENT IS BEEN DEDUCTED FROM MY ACCOUNT.SO LET ME HAVE YOUR INFOS ASAP.AND THE SHIPPING COST OF YOUR CHOICE I AM PURCHASING IT FOR MY FIANCEE IN NIGERIA
so it’s either a birthday present or a wedding present, I don’t know, but yep!
(So if you get any emails like this, be assured it’s a scam and don’t go through with it.)
Sorry, comments on the blog are temporarily turned off after a frightening influx of spammy spam spam.
If like me you use SPAMassassin as one of your filters to block SPAM, a friendly reminder: don’t forget to check your spam box! For whatever reason, I configured it to filter all likely SPAM emails to a folder (rather than simply deleting them), and then somewhat cunningly, totally forgot about it (mainly due to the folder only being accessible through Webmail..).
Cue random thought. Login to webmail, check SPAM folder. 1,439 PAGES. Not emails. PAGES. Webmail is configured to display 50 emails per page… 71950 SPAM emails, and let’s say an average of 10kb* each… we’re talking 700mb in storage space.
I wondered why my server was beginning to grind a bit.
[ * this is probably an overestimate, or certainly not very accurate, and is for illustrative purposes only. I'm not sure of the exact disc usage. ]
These robots who post to my blog with shit like
“Thanks for the great info”
because I posted something about being drunk, and their details just happen to be a DUI lawyer. You see, I reckon if I put enough keywords here, leave it long enough for it go be Googled, I can then get heaps of SPAM on all sorts of stuff. So let’s see…
Drinking, drunk, lawyers, help, drinking, drunk, driving under the influence
Penis, small penis, bigger penis please, help small penis
No erection, bigger erection, big big big erection please, I want viagra
Custom logo design, flash design work, I need custom logos, more business
Hmm. I wonder if this will get me barred from Googley. Who cares!
After this, I actually got a reply!
Dear B. Igcock.
Please this transaction is not a joke,could you please be more serious,are you interested in my offer or not?.
Yours Faithfully.
Barrister Markus Bridges
So I had to reply…
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Allegedly. I normally ignore this stuff, but I was bored so I thought I’d see what happens.
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