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No, not this mystery meat, I'm talking about the ones in your email inbox.
Spam in your inbox. Something which we're all familiar with. The older your email account, the more spam it gets. The spammers probably got your email address from site shady website that you registered on, by hacking address lists of friends, from chain mails that got forwarded a million times, or bulk emailing random email addresses.
Spam comes in many shapes and sizes. It's really quite funny to read these spam mails caught in your filter. Some try to get you to click on a shady link, either to get clicks for advertisements or to download viruses. Others try to convince you to help out a 'friend in need', aka some random Nigerian prince. It's pretty damn amazing that to this day and age, people still get fooled by them. It's like downloading a file named "p0rn.jpg.exe" from some shady website.
I was searching through my spam filter out of boredom, and came across a few interesting ones that I'll share here:
JV Enterprises
550 Hillview Drive, SE 18 7NL,
South East London.
England.
Tel: +44 770 880 0114..
Email; jvickersx77@yahoo.com
Dear Esteemed Supplier,
We are a fast growing supplier, we saw a similar product on a trading
site, So please confirm to me if your Company can make provision for
exact products as shown on trading site.
We await your response with quotation and specifications immediately to
enable us proceed with order placement.
Ѓ@
Thanks,
Mr John Vickers
Managing Director,
JV Enterprises
550 Hillview Drive, SE 18 7NL,
South East London.
England.
Tel: +44 770 880 0114..
Email; jvickersx77@yahoo.com
Dear Esteemed Supplier,
We are a fast growing supplier, we saw a similar product on a trading
site, So please confirm to me if your Company can make provision for
exact products as shown on trading site.
We await your response with quotation and specifications immediately to
enable us proceed with order placement.
Ѓ@
Thanks,
Mr John Vickers
Managing Director,
JV Enterprises
Such spoofing would be better if he got his facts right... Firstly the address is wrong. 550 Hillview drive is not in SE18 7NL. Next, people in the UK don't write it as SE 18 7NL, they'll write it without the space between SE and 18. Finally, looking up the original email, the message was sent from schuelerpaten-berlin.de (that's not UK) and the reply-to path leads to a different email (jvickersx77@yahoo.com)... So much fail.
Let's take a look at another fail spam post:
LinkedIn
REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:
• From linkedin.com (Gwen Baker)
• There are a total of 3 messages awaiting your response. Visit your InBox now (hyperlinked).
Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings (hyperlinked.
REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:
• From linkedin.com (Gwen Baker)
• There are a total of 3 messages awaiting your response. Visit your InBox now (hyperlinked).
Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings (hyperlinked.
The message structure got disrupted, but you get the idea.
Who's Gwen Baker? Don't know her. If you mouseover the hyperlinks (indicated), they link to a bunch of weird websites that I'm not experiment with... Also I'm receiving a ton of these spam messages, I don't think I'm THAT popular on linkedin though..
I have a ton more spam mail, too many to share here. I could just change my active email addresses, but that only delays the inevitable swarm of spam. Oh well, I'll just treat them as entertainment when I'm sitting around waiting for my restriction enzymes to work~
