Con Phishing
Those lovable rogues! When they're not trying to cut me in on a deal for a percentage of a Nigerian fortune, they're poking my email address to harvest personal details to steal my identity and hence my credit.
Should we admire their industrious nature as they take advantage of the flawed system of capitalism and thank them for exposing security loopholes in the software we all take for granted, or have them put into stocks in the village square and pelted with rotten tomatoes until they die, whereupon their remains be sent back to their relatives in a series of boxes with increasingly bizarre labels, such as 'Open now - you may be a winner' (when they open to find their father's severed fingers, they should see a message on the inner lid, 'Not this time. Please try again.')? It's a tough question, and you should all follow your hearts.
It's like they're not even trying. It says it's from info@eircom.net, but when you hit Reply, it goes to eircomunit01@live.com. Really? At live.com? WHAT THE HELL? Also for, some reason, although all parts of the original email were in English, I'm now writing to them in Chinese.
Now this is more like it! They've put a bit of effort into it, at least. There's a presentation panel that looks like it might be from Facebook, and everything seems to be in order. But then when you hit the button, you are presented with a login page on www.facebook.com.de11wke.be. The genius here is that the actual domain name is something.be, but it looks like it's something.com with bits after it. So, a small prize for those people, but they can still fuck off.
And lastly, for comic relief, a screencap from one of my dummy gmail accounts. This one attracts a lot of spam because I use it for Very Bad Things. That said, if you're trying to get me to sign up to something educational, you should spell "university" and "diploma" correctly. Four separate emails. Four different incorrect spellings. Is this a record?
Should we admire their industrious nature as they take advantage of the flawed system of capitalism and thank them for exposing security loopholes in the software we all take for granted, or have them put into stocks in the village square and pelted with rotten tomatoes until they die, whereupon their remains be sent back to their relatives in a series of boxes with increasingly bizarre labels, such as 'Open now - you may be a winner' (when they open to find their father's severed fingers, they should see a message on the inner lid, 'Not this time. Please try again.')? It's a tough question, and you should all follow your hearts.
It's like they're not even trying. It says it's from info@eircom.net, but when you hit Reply, it goes to eircomunit01@live.com. Really? At live.com? WHAT THE HELL? Also for, some reason, although all parts of the original email were in English, I'm now writing to them in Chinese.
Now this is more like it! They've put a bit of effort into it, at least. There's a presentation panel that looks like it might be from Facebook, and everything seems to be in order. But then when you hit the button, you are presented with a login page on www.facebook.com.de11wke.be. The genius here is that the actual domain name is something.be, but it looks like it's something.com with bits after it. So, a small prize for those people, but they can still fuck off.
And lastly, for comic relief, a screencap from one of my dummy gmail accounts. This one attracts a lot of spam because I use it for Very Bad Things. That said, if you're trying to get me to sign up to something educational, you should spell "university" and "diploma" correctly. Four separate emails. Four different incorrect spellings. Is this a record?
