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Title: You call that a phish?
Post by: Conrad on October 30, 2016, 06:58:14 AM

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 (http://xxx.xx/xxxxxxx)


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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."    - Al Capone (1899-1947)

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Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: gPink on October 30, 2016, 07:39:08 AM

Where does the link take you? Might be interesting with all those XXXs.

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Conrad on October 30, 2016, 09:31:06 AM

Those are my x's. I didn't want to post the real URL just in case someone decided to click on it.

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: gPink on October 30, 2016, 11:43:45 AM

Did you click on your Xs?

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: VirginiaJim on October 30, 2016, 03:40:27 PM

I don't think he has an x.

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Conrad on October 31, 2016, 04:49:12 AM

Quote from: gPink on October 30, 2016, 11:43:45 AM

Did you click on your Xs?

Not yet, tell me how it goes will ya?

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: DaddyFlip on October 31, 2016, 07:17:24 AM

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 (http://www.davidhoma.com/Think%20Like%20a%20Freak%20-%20Steven%20D.%20Levitt%20&%20Stephen%20J.%20_10492.pdf)

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Rhino on October 31, 2016, 10:03:21 AM

Quote from: DaddyFlip on October 31, 2016, 07:17:24 AM

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 (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.

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Classvino on October 31, 2016, 02:13:20 PM

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

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Conniesaki on October 31, 2016, 05:41:08 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkF88BkpeE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkF88BkpeE)

Title: Re: You call that a phish?
Post by: Rhino on November 01, 2016, 06:56:47 AM

Quote from: Conniesaki on October 31, 2016, 05:41:08 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkF88BkpeE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkF88BkpeE)

 :rotflmao: That's brilliant!