I just Got an Interesting Message

Post by **jacek** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:49 pm

Apparently spammers will try literally anything to get you open their dam zip files !

EcazS · Post by **EcazS** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:02 pm

You live in the UK right? Even more fail then since it says "New York" lol XD

Post by **jacek** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:32 pm

EcazS wrote:You live in the UK right? Even more fail then since it says "New York" lol XD

I know, it's total dumb !

I guess it looks a bit like some kind of form though so they did somethign right !

EcazS · Post by **EcazS** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:05 pm

Also, who is up driving at 7:25 AM?

Post by **jacek** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:05 pm

EcazS wrote:Also, who is up driving at 7:25 AM?

People who have jobs far away and not on the internet ?

libeco · Post by **libeco** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:47 pm

One thing I don't understand about spammers: why do they send six messages at once to the same address? If I would have gotten one message like that I might have thought: that would make sense, but I got this exact message 6 times in one day on the same e-mail address... what do they think, if he gets six of them, he is more likely to believe it?!

Post by **jacek** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:18 pm

libeco wrote:One thing I don't understand about spammers: why do they send six messages at once to the same address? If I would have gotten one message like that I might have thought: that would make sense, but I got this exact message 6 times in one day on the same e-mail address... what do they think, if he gets six of them, he is more likely to believe it?!

I always figured that was poor mailing software, like your address got on the list 6 times.

EcazS · Post by **EcazS** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:20 pm

jacek wrote:
EcazS wrote:Also, who is up driving at 7:25 AM?
People who have jobs far away and not on the internet ?

I have a job far away....

CodeCanyon items · Post by **Tino** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:30 pm

I sometimes get up at 4:00 am if I have to work early. And I have a job only 10 minutes from where I live by bike

So if I'm outside at 4:30 am, I suppose people will also be driving 3 hours later

On the topic of spammers, yeah, they often are pretty dumb. The only ones that I have come across that are actually somewhat smart are those that do not have a subject, surprisingly, and then have a message about some school work they did for me that I might find useful.

Of course, sending those message during the summer holidays doesn't help, and sending them in English to a Dutch person also doesn't help :p

Post by **jacek** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:22 pm

Maybe the best spam would be a completely blank message with no subject and just the attachment called something like "file.zip". People would be too curious not to open it !

bowersbros · Post by **bowersbros** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:07 pm

jacek wrote:Maybe the best spam would be a completely blank message with no subject and just the attachment called something like "file.zip". People would be too curious not to open it !

Im curious, what damage can a zip file do anyway? Because wouldn't you need to actually open the virus.exe file inside or whatever also.. So downloading a .zip should be safe no?

Post by **jacek** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:13 pm

bowersbros wrote:
jacek wrote:Maybe the best spam would be a completely blank message with no subject and just the attachment called something like "file.zip". People would be too curious not to open it !
Im curious, what damage can a zip file do anyway? Because wouldn't you need to actually open the virus.exe file inside or whatever also.. So downloading a .zip should be safe no?

I think there are bugs in the windows default unzip thing that can be exploited.

DomC · Post by **DomC** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:11 am

I got something very similar the other day, the flaw:
1) I live in the UK
2) I am 15!

also I'm usually up by 4:30 / 5 am so it's not unreasonable that people would be driving at 7:25

Post by **jacek** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:35 am

DomC wrote:also I'm usually up by 4:30 / 5 am

DomC · Post by **DomC** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:49 am

jacek wrote:
DomC wrote:also I'm usually up by 4:30 / 5 am

what

Post by **jacek** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:54 am

DomC wrote:what

You only get up that early if you have a long drive or a flight to catch !

DomC · Post by **DomC** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:01 am

No!

That is a very suitable time to get up!

Although I only get up that early is because I have a small webdesign business with a friend and at day we are at school and I hate working after doing homework etc. so do it in the morning

Post by **jacek** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:12 am

DomC wrote:No!

That is a very suitable time to get up! Although I only get up that early is because I have a small webdesign business with a friend and at day we are at school and I hate working after doing homework etc. so do it in the morning

Wow ! That is serious motivation ! I'm impressed !

DomC · Post by **DomC** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:13 pm

jacek wrote:
DomC wrote:No!

That is a very suitable time to get up! Although I only get up that early is because I have a small webdesign business with a friend and at day we are at school and I hate working after doing homework etc. so do it in the morning
Wow ! That is serious motivation ! I'm impressed !

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