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Received this fine e-mail last night.
Geeze, at least make it look legit!
But I do love the Al Capone quote!
Hi,
I created $1,885 in two times.
That was only the crown of the iceberg.
Find Out More NOW:
http://xxx.xx/xxxxxxx
Administrator
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947)
Msg.IDYGPsom247689
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Where does the link take you? Might be interesting with all those XXXs.
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Those are my x's. I didn't want to post the real URL just in case someone decided to click on it.
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Did you click on your Xs?
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I don't think he has an x.
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Did you click on your Xs?
Not yet, tell me how it goes will ya?
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There's a reason phishing scams look so obvious and ridiculous; reference the Nigerian email scam. Steven Levitt in Think Like a Freak explains why these scams, including the one you found, are setup this way. It's to eliminate "false positives", responses that would cost the scammers money, or worse, to pursue without resulting in a payoff. Scroll to the middle of page 76 of this .pdf to read the article.
http://www.davidhoma.com/Think%20Like%20a%20Freak%20-%20Steven%20D.%20Levitt%20&%20Stephen%20J.%20_10492.pdf
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There's a reason phishing scams look so obvious and ridiculous; reference the Nigerian email scam. Steven Levitt in Think Like a Freak explains why these scams, including the one you found, are setup this way. It's to eliminate "false positives", responses that would cost the scammers money, or worse, to pursue without resulting in a payoff. Scroll to the middle of page 76 of this .pdf to read the article.
http://www.davidhoma.com/Think%20Like%20a%20Freak%20-%20Steven%20D.%20Levitt%20&%20Stephen%20J.%20_10492.pdf
Interesting. So they filter out all but the most gullible.
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I was more impressed by the idea of someone building a chatbot that targets scammers like this. That sounds like a worthy project for some codejunkie.
Jamie
That's brilliant!