What's going on in the cyber-crime world?
Am I suddenly not so popular, or seen as less wealthy than in the past?
The quality of scam emails I'm receiving have seriously deteriorated recently.
Exhibit A:
No attempt at a realistic email address. Not bothering to use the correct website name. It not being a fake website (it actually redirects to Amazon.com). The use of "?" in place of an apostrophe. Directing me to the website to login, so no need for me to open the attachment.
Exhibit B:
I won't post it (mainly as I deleted it already) - suffice to say a standard "Nigerian Prince" type email, but with completely mangled syntax, spelling, vocabulary - the lot. Not a single coherent phrase in the email. Nothing in the mail even encouraging me to hand over bank details, just some vague suggestion that I could if I liked.
Diverse banks who I have never banked with asking me to login and change my password - all with my name and multiple others all showing in the "To:" field as they couldn't even be bothered to BCC, all coming from addresses such as [email protected] as they couldn't be arsed trying to pretend to be the actual bank...
It's like an insult. Like somehow the spammers and scammers of the world have decided that I'm just not good enough for their top drawer emails and have now decided to outsource the job, only bothering to continue sending me anything at all as a courtesy. Maybe the next step will be to withdraw their services altogether unless I buy a subscription.
Am I suddenly not so popular, or seen as less wealthy than in the past?
The quality of scam emails I'm receiving have seriously deteriorated recently.
Exhibit A:
Originally posted by From: [email
Exhibit B:
I won't post it (mainly as I deleted it already) - suffice to say a standard "Nigerian Prince" type email, but with completely mangled syntax, spelling, vocabulary - the lot. Not a single coherent phrase in the email. Nothing in the mail even encouraging me to hand over bank details, just some vague suggestion that I could if I liked.
Diverse banks who I have never banked with asking me to login and change my password - all with my name and multiple others all showing in the "To:" field as they couldn't even be bothered to BCC, all coming from addresses such as [email protected] as they couldn't be arsed trying to pretend to be the actual bank...
It's like an insult. Like somehow the spammers and scammers of the world have decided that I'm just not good enough for their top drawer emails and have now decided to outsource the job, only bothering to continue sending me anything at all as a courtesy. Maybe the next step will be to withdraw their services altogether unless I buy a subscription.
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