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Offline Conrad

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You call that a phish?
« 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


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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2016, 07:39:08 AM »
Where does the link take you? Might be interesting with all those XXXs.
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Offline Conrad

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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2016, 11:43:45 AM »
Did you click on your Xs?
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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2016, 03:40:27 PM »
I don't think he has an x.
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Offline Conrad

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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #5 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?
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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #6 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
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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #7 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

Interesting. So they filter out all but the most gullible.
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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #8 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.

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Re: You call that a phish?
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2016, 05:41:08 PM »
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Re: You call that a phish?
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