Are there no phishers who can spell?
Recently found in my email spam folder:
PayPal Security Mesure
Your account has been accessed by an uknowen party.
Please click HERE…
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Recently found in my email spam folder:
PayPal Security Mesure
Your account has been accessed by an uknowen party.
Please click HERE…
Doesn’t matter, I suppose. Anyone dumb enough to fall for such a scheme can’t spell either.
Misspelling is sometimes done deliberately to try to circumvent spam blockers.
Spelling bully:
I know, but isn’t that usually just in the subject heading?
Maybe a translation fail?
My fav.
Late last October I went to a great Uknoween party.
Some of them are very good.
I had some joker impersonate me to my users. At which point I warned them not to fall for the bait. And then set up gnupg to cryptographically sign all of my outgoing email.
Of course, this was after 3 or 4 incidents where some of my users had fallen for phishing attacks, and we’d been used as a spam/phishing/whatever conduits and I trashed ~10 million spams that were stuck in our queue because we’d been blacklisted and they couldn’t be delivered.
That made me very, very cross.
The link is missing. Maybe the dingo ate their link.
neo-neocon Says:
“I know, but isn’t that usually just in the subject heading?”
Usually, but some spam filters can be set to block words in the body of the message.
I used to see some very amusing clangers in Japan – my favorite (which I wish that I had bought!) was a gift shop item; a simple little pin in the shape of a slice of lemon, proudly labeled as part of the design — “Remon”…
This must have been how Southern Poverty Law Center started up.
n.n.:
Oh, I can assure you that the link was operational in the original email. And no, I didn’t click on it.
“Anyone dumb enough to fall for such a scheme can’t spell either.” – Yancey Ward
That’s the idea. Anyone dumb enough to read it is a grade A mark, ripe for the picking.
Thank You, Neo!! Not just the inability to spell, but little ability to construct, punctuate AND spell a simple or compound English sentence. And, Cursive Writing?? Soooooooooooooo Yesterday, Neo. As are REAL, PRINTED BOOKS. But, Buffy, Breezy and Binker are ALL About googling their app on their android & i-Thingy.
I truly Despair.
Knowing what a natural-born fool I am, I would probably click the link to correct their spelling. I don’t, but I can see how they’d trap me.
I would hope if anyone tried to impersonate, they would automatically fail because I am very scrupulous about my speling and grammer, and anyone who knows me would imediately recognize that I wold never make so many mistates.
Of course, we all make typoes sometimes.
Two of my kids do a lot of chatting and social media stuff online. One of them is like me and always writes formally with proper punctuation and spelling, etc.
the other always writes like this with little or no punctuation or capitalization etc. i havent been able to convince her to amend her ways
“Are there no phishers who can spell?”
*shrug* What do you expect from a spammer who can’t even spell “fish” correctly?
Stupid ghotiers…
It’s speculated by security professionals that the grammatical and spelling mistakes are deliberate. They serve as a filter to find the truly careless/unsophisticated who can be more easily taken advantage of.
Completely off-topic, Neo, but here is a hilarious essay from a liberal in LA. I laughed the entire time while I was reading it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/welcome-to-hooverville-california.html?_r=0
If the UN was doing its job, it would search out these foreign scamsters, arrest them all and give them stiff sentences.
But noooo.
The law abiding are victims of the lawless (even through annoyance) because the cops have better things to do.
The loss of the Rule of Law is the single biggest problem in this country in this century. And the Dems are at the heart of the matter.
neo-neocon Says:
“I know, but isn’t that usually just in the subject heading?”
It was; then the spam software started scoring the risk based on the body of the message too.
The Democrat party would use fairness in this fashion.
For every person that gets conned like that kind of spam, you get to pay 50% of their losses. That will be your “equality”.
There has to be some mechanism by which people separate out their ranking. In this sense, scammers are valuable human resources which allow us to divide the human species between competent and incompetent branches, in order to better distribute resources and education.
Whenever the UN or some government tries to help, they naturally go make it fairer or they make the scammers smarter and thus more effective. So a method that would normally have worked on dumb people, now will work on more people cause only the smartest scammers will survive with their restrictions. It’s enforced evolution. The marks don’t get smarter or wiser, but the scammers do under the government solution.
Just compare Nigerian email scam to Hussein.