And when they come for the spammers, I will say "You missed one over there."
Since the day Miles was born we have lovingly referred to him as Mr. Miles, because as far as we're concerned he has always been a very cool kid.
When we Skype, Miles sits in front of my wife's laptop and bashes the keys like any curious 8 month-old would do. This morning on Skype, my wife said Mr. Miles wants to send me an e-mail. It arrived eventually, from my wife's e-mail address, with the words 'LOVE DADDDDDDD'.
But about ten seconds before it arrived I also received spam from a 'Mr. Miles':
...informing me that a recently deceased family member (which presumably could only be my mother) has left me 6 million quid, which Mr. Miles will forward to me in exchange for phone/fax numbers and a forwarding address to send the huge bundle of cash after filing all the necessary LEGAL documents. Look, just send me the money, okay?
I've read a bit about Skype security, eavesdropping and encryption, but I have a question for the techheads on my FL: is it possible for an eavesdropped Skype call to employ voice-to-text software and generate immediate spam this way, or is this just a massively unlikely coincidence?
When we Skype, Miles sits in front of my wife's laptop and bashes the keys like any curious 8 month-old would do. This morning on Skype, my wife said Mr. Miles wants to send me an e-mail. It arrived eventually, from my wife's e-mail address, with the words 'LOVE DADDDDDDD'.
But about ten seconds before it arrived I also received spam from a 'Mr. Miles':
...informing me that a recently deceased family member (which presumably could only be my mother) has left me 6 million quid, which Mr. Miles will forward to me in exchange for phone/fax numbers and a forwarding address to send the huge bundle of cash after filing all the necessary LEGAL documents. Look, just send me the money, okay?
I've read a bit about Skype security, eavesdropping and encryption, but I have a question for the techheads on my FL: is it possible for an eavesdropped Skype call to employ voice-to-text software and generate immediate spam this way, or is this just a massively unlikely coincidence?