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Posted May 06, 2015
Well, you wouldn't get these if you weren't part of the e-mail 'date' base... :P
Posted May 06, 2015
LMAO... that e-mail... LOL (XD)
Posted May 06, 2015
Aww! You're using Linux Mint Cinnamon! I'm proud of you! +1
Posted May 06, 2015
Datebase is the best base.
Posted May 06, 2015
Lately i watched some TV commercials during the Snooker WM.
Now THAT are scams.
And like the others...if only one from 10.000 responds...

GOG (Good old Germany) is currently flooded with telephone scams.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Wow... LOL
Posted May 06, 2015
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OlivawR: I don't like it. It's a catch-all email setup. While I have no idea if spammers do bother with catch-all email addresses, I still prefer to create an weird name like g_man@mydomain (instead of google@mydomain) address.
If you are ok with checking 126 email addresses, then of course you are just fine. If you only want to check one address though, yet still know who leaked your email, the regular expression may be better.
So, to clarify the example.
You have the man@mydomain email address. For google, you sign up with google.man@mydomain, for gog you sign up with gog.man@mydomain, for amazon you sign up with amazon.man@mydomain and so on. All the mails will end up in the man@mydomain address, though they will have a different to: field.
Yes, this does mean that you may also get mail addressed to any.man@mydomain, though I'm not sure if such an address would be created instead of harvested.

But as I said, whatever works for you :)
Posted May 06, 2015
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Getcomposted: Or the phone calls from "Microsoft" about my poor beleaguered PC that they've been monitoring.
I ask them if they know that secretly monitoring people is against the law, and also if they ever heard of Linux.
They tend to hang up before I get into my diatribe about having to wear a Tin! Foil! Hat! all the time so that the evil Microsoft can't monitor my thoughts as well, and how they're the secret masters of the world in secret co-operation with slimy, tentacled aliens from the other dimensions.

XD
Ah yes the helpful calls from "Microsoft". I haven't yet actually picked up on one, but when I do I plan on testing their general knowledge of computer to the limit ;)
I once heard someone telling a story about how they played dumb for a scammer, kept them on the phone for over an hour. Their reasoning was "They longer I keep 'em talking, they less time they have to scam someone else".
Posted May 06, 2015
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OlivawR: I don't like it. It's a catch-all email setup. While I have no idea if spammers do bother with catch-all email addresses, I still prefer to create an weird name like g_man@mydomain (instead of google@mydomain) address.
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JMich: If you are ok with checking 126 email addresses, then of course you are just fine. If you only want to check one address though, yet still know who leaked your email, the regular expression may be better.
So, to clarify the example.
You have the man@mydomain email address. For google, you sign up with google.man@mydomain, for gog you sign up with gog.man@mydomain, for amazon you sign up with amazon.man@mydomain and so on. All the mails will end up in the man@mydomain address, though they will have a different to: field.
Yes, this does mean that you may also get mail addressed to any.man@mydomain, though I'm not sure if such an address would be created instead of harvested.

But as I said, whatever works for you :)
I think I didn't explained well the way I do things. All my mails go to one address, but I don't use a catch-all system like you described. All those 126 emails aliases (or whatever you want to call them) go to admin@mydomain.com so I check only that, but first I have to create them. I don't like the catch all system, because someone can figure out that they can send an email at whatever_blabla@mydomain.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Randalator: It's a sad fact that people in general are mindbogglingly stupid at the best of times. As soon as money is involved, even the last trace amount of intelligence takes a nosedive. So, as unbelievable as it sounds, even these ridiculously obvious scam attempts fool enough people to be insanely profitable.

Feel free to lose whatever hope you had left for humanity any time now...
It's sad that there are people who are so mindbogglingly selfish that they'll scam other people to steal money from them and even more mindboggling they target the elder and the people that have less than average intelligence especially. As if the ever more digitalized world isn't complicated enough as it is for elder people and people with mental handicaps.

Yes, it's hard to keep hope for the humaneness of humanity.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Leonard03: Ah yes the helpful calls from "Microsoft". I haven't yet actually picked up on one, but when I do I plan on testing their general knowledge of computer to the limit ;)
I once heard someone telling a story about how they played dumb for a scammer, kept them on the phone for over an hour. Their reasoning was "They longer I keep 'em talking, they less time they have to scam someone else".
I've had a ton of these off and on. They seem to come in batches, with weeks between them, then I'll get 6 to 10 in a week's span. I've run the gamut of things when dealing with them, but one of my favorites was when they told me my Windows computer was throwing serious errors and was infected with a virus, I said "all my computers have Linux operating systems". He hung up.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Getcomposted: Or the phone calls from "Microsoft" about my poor beleaguered PC that they've been monitoring.
I ask them if they know that secretly monitoring people is against the law, and also if they ever heard of Linux.
They tend to hang up before I get into my diatribe about having to wear a Tin! Foil! Hat! all the time so that the evil Microsoft can't monitor my thoughts as well, and how they're the secret masters of the world in secret co-operation with slimy, tentacled aliens from the other dimensions.

XD
Had one of those calls, only they said they were from "Windows". There is a joke here about operating systems "phoning home", but I'm too lazy to make it.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by tammerwhisk
Posted May 06, 2015
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Getcomposted: Or the phone calls from "Microsoft" about my poor beleaguered PC that they've been monitoring.
I ask them if they know that secretly monitoring people is against the law, and also if they ever heard of Linux.
They tend to hang up before I get into my diatribe about having to wear a Tin! Foil! Hat! all the time so that the evil Microsoft can't monitor my thoughts as well, and how they're the secret masters of the world in secret co-operation with slimy, tentacled aliens from the other dimensions.

XD
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tammerwhisk: Had one of those calls, only they said they were from "Windows". There is a joke here about operating systems "phoning home", but I'm too lazy to make it.
I got one of those a few weeks ago. I eventually got him so pissed he started yelling and cursing at me which was double the fun because he had a really think Indian accent. XD
Posted May 07, 2015
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Wishbone: I know it seems ridiculous, but there's a method to the madness. A lot of the rather unconvincing scam mails floating around are deliberately unconvincing. The thing is that scamming too many people is sure to draw unwanted attention, and when scamming people, it helps to deliberately target, well, the most stupid segment of the population, not to put too fine a point on it. So lots of scam mails are deliberately badly made, as a kind of intelligence filter, making sure that the only ones to take the bait are the ones least likely to cause problems for the scammers.
Yep, I think this makes a lot of sense. By making scams deliberately implausible, scammers cause the dumbest potential victims to self-select. The scammers don't want to waste time and effort on trying to hustle smarter people who probably wouldn't fall for their schemes.
Posted May 07, 2015
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tammerwhisk: Had one of those calls, only they said they were from "Windows". There is a joke here about operating systems "phoning home", but I'm too lazy to make it.
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tinyE: I got one of those a few weeks ago. I eventually got him so pissed he started yelling and cursing at me which was double the fun because he had a really think Indian accent. XD
Kudos for wasting their time. :)
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