Phishing
Phishing
(OP)
From my email provider,an excerpt, " Be suspicious of grammatical or spelling errors. These are usually indications of a fraudulent message."
So don't misspell stuff if you are trying to cheat. You will be discovered.
So don't misspell stuff if you are trying to cheat. You will be discovered.
Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.





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And here I thought the Prince of Nigeria just spelled poorly when he asked me for my bank account number!
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Thanks for the advice.
-Mike
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The bad giveaway is that it starts off with "Dear Chase Customer." Jeez, you'd think that if I actually had an account with these guys, they'd mailmerge my correct name into the salutation.
TTFN
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Oh and I told the Prince of Nigeria and his extended family to shove it up their collective (insert body parts here).
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How many of these things do you guys get per day?
(I get about 2 or 3, 99% of them are deleted immediately as the anti-spam spots them).
Maybe this is more of an Overcoming Obstacles to get my Work Done topic.
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Once was from an obscure bank saying that due to some crash or whatever they needed to upload again the details for the customers. I went to the real bank website and forwarded the phishing email to tehm. Did they thank me? Of course not.
The other one was a version of Nigerian Prince but this time with Savimbi's widow (the rebel fighter of Angola's civil war) that poor lady had some big $$$$ hidden somewhere and needed my help to go get it for her.
Personally, I find these emails quite amusing, but I am sorry for the persons that fall in these cons.
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Something to the effect that a. "you've been recommended to us as an honest person," and b. "we'd like you, the honest person, to help us commit bank fraud." Gotta luv those nitwits, tho...
TTFN
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I have noticed that some of the spammers for drugs, medicines or bootleg software have taken to including extracts from noevls to fool the spam programs.
Why do I get the feeling that the bad guys are winning out there?
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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A smart idea. (if it worked) It would be interesting to see just what there is in life today that doesn't use what could be legally defined as "computer technology".
This isn't just denial of internet access or access to a PC, no mobile phones, game boys, TV or radio (lose definition), slot machines etc.
Nice idea but tough to achieve (how many drink drivers still go out and drive?)
So maybe that baseball bat and some good vigilantism isn't such a bad idea after all.
What time are you having your "bring a bat" party Ziggi?
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Blacksmith
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TTFN
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Sounds pretty good doesn't it? The fact that I don't have Chase online account seems to be irrelevant. This one is actually a poorer one, since the really good one has links to jp-chase.com, etc., nice words about privacy protection
fischermanman? fer crying out loud!!
TTFN
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They're getting less un-clever, but I guess it's like natural (virtual) selection?
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VERY subtle. The only issue was that only one link is illegitimate, and that particular link is now dead.
TTFN