Been getting a lot of the usual 'please update your security details' type of e-mail recently. My complaint is not that I get them, but the poor quality. I at least want some sort of challenge. Being told to download a form and complete it within 48 hrs or my bank account will be terminated just doesn't cut it.
							
						
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Yeah, losers.
A better approach is like this - "There's a slow-acting poison coursing through your system, which only I have the antidote for. "
							
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Got one the other day claiming to be from the Co-op Bank, warning me about a problem with my Barclays Online account.
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I've just been invited to Dropbox but I'm already on Dropbox and the link goes to some dodgy IP without even a domain name.Comment
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Got this one claiming to be from a Contracting site, when I got there it was nothing of the sort, just a load of dodgy links to Daily Mail articles.Comment
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Watch Crank at the weekend did we?Originally posted by AtW View PostYeah, losers.
A better approach is like this - "There's a slow-acting poison coursing through your system, which only I have the antidote for. "

							
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I do wonder how stupid the people that fall for this stuff actually are. Personally I only reply to spam from hot Russian girls looking for a nice man.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Which all seem to have been sent from my computer....Originally posted by doodab View PostI do wonder how stupid the people that fall for this stuff actually are. Personally I only reply to spam from hot Russian girls looking for a nice man.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by ZARDOZ View PostGot this one claiming to be from a Contracting site, when I got there it was nothing of the sort, just a load of dodgy links to Daily Mail articles.
 
							
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The worse thing is genuine emails that look like scam emails, you'd thing companies would know betterDoing the needful since 1827Comment
 
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