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    Spam / Fraud e-mails

    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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      #3
      Got one the other day claiming to be from the Co-op Bank, warning me about a problem with my Barclays Online account.

      It's like they're not even trying

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        #4
        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.

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          #5
          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.

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            #6
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            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. "

            Watch Crank at the weekend did we?
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              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.'

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                #8
                Originally posted by doodab View Post
                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.
                Which all seem to have been sent from my computer....
                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.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by ZARDOZ View Post
                  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.
                  Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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                    #10
                    The worse thing is genuine emails that look like scam emails, you'd thing companies would know better
                    Doing the needful since 1827

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