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Variations on a Theme

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Variations on a Theme

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Postby Rhyd6 » November 25th, 2020, 3:32 pm

We no longer receive emails from "rich" Nigerian princes offering to gift us large sums of money if we'd only send them our bank details. These days we get phone calls and emails purporting to be from Royal Mail - 'we have your parcel but you need to pay us £1 postage' on yer bike, especially as your emailaddress contains the word moscow. Apparently Amazon are also desparate to send us the iphone we ordered which is at a special price of £1, their email address was in German. These are just a couple of examples of crooks trying to relieve us of our hard earned - I wouldn't care if it was a really clever scam but these are so obviously fake that I find it hard to believe that anyone falls for them. A pox on all their schemes.

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Re: Variations on a Theme

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Postby UncleEbenezer » November 25th, 2020, 3:58 pm

Meanwhile, I've had two in the last couple of days in Another Flavour of Nasty:

Your reputation and business are at stake!

We on your behalf in the message your website address [redacted] and your contact information (including in social. Networks and messengers) will send:

+ on 15,897,318 sites, threats with insults to site owners, US residents, Europeans, LGBT and BLM.

+ 790,000 messages to bloggers with threats and insults

+ 2 367 896 public figures and politicians (from the USA and Europe) with threats and insults

+ 70,000 negative reviews about you and your website [redacted]

+ 23 467 849 contact forms of sites with threats and insults

+ 150,000 emails messages to people with disabilities with threats and insults, many of them will definitely sue you

+ 57000 emails of messages to veterans with threats and insults, FOR THIS YOU WILL BE EXACTLY SITTED

Following from all of the above, you will get a lot of losses:

+ an abuse from spam house, amazon and many webmasters (for spam, insults and threats) will come to your site [redacted], as a result, your domain will be banned and blacklisted

+ people will sue you because you threatened and humiliated them

+ in court you will not prove anything, everything will look as if you did it all, MOST YOU WILL GO TO PRISON

+ internet will be inundated with negative reviews about you and your website [redacted]

+ threats and reprisals from BLM and LGBT community members, in fact, these are dangerous community guys

Total: you will lose your business, all your money, you will spend on lawyers and compensation for court decisions, you will go to jail, your life will turn to hell ...

We already have everything ready to launch all of the above, but we decided to give you a chance to avoid all this, you can buy off a small amount of money.

Make a payment, transfer 0.39 Bitcoins to this address

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We are waiting for the transfer from you until November 27, on Saturday November 28, if payment does not come from you, we will begin to destroy your business and you along with it.


For the record, sending abuse and spam purporting to be from some innocent victim goes back to the 1990s (or earlier, if you include the pranks of a more innocent era) and it's happened to me a few times. All that's new is the ransom demand (BTC address NOT redacted). Perhaps they should've targeted owners of non-techie businesses?

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Re: Variations on a Theme

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Postby UncleEbenezer » November 25th, 2020, 4:10 pm

On a different note, the first Nigerian prince's letter I ever saw was not email, it was on paper, delivered in an oldfashioned envelope!

This was around mid-1990s, and the lucky recipient was the owner of a bar in Rome, where I was a regular (once a week) customer. They wanted to transfer money through his business. They wrote in English, and he showed it to me 'cos he thought a native speaker might see something that eluded him. I didn't, but we both agreed that it had the feel of a word shared by both Italian and English: mafia.

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Re: Variations on a Theme

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Postby jfgw » November 25th, 2020, 6:00 pm

The more scams there are, the more suspicious we will be and the less likely it will be that we are fooled. That's my theory anyway; unskilled scammers may well be doing us a favour.

Julian F. G. W.

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Re: Variations on a Theme

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Postby genou » November 25th, 2020, 9:32 pm

jfgw wrote:The more scams there are, the more suspicious we will be and the less likely it will be that we are fooled. That's my theory anyway; unskilled scammers may well be doing us a favour.

Julian F. G. W.


It's my understanding that it is the other way round - most initial scam emails are designed to be implausible as a filter to identify the truly gullible.


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