We all get them. Emails of all sorts asking us to take their money out of Nigeria, update our billing information and in the case of this morning's email, provide information to "unlock my account."
Most of the time I'll delete these emails and move on, but every once in awhile, I'm curious to see how they went about setting up their scam.
Some setups are pretty clever, but I can't say the same for this morning's phish attempt.
Here's the email:
ORLY?
The link takes us here:
Nice URL. Yea, Seems Legit. Let's pop the hood and take a look around.
LOL! Well, hello user # 44215172 at [CENSORED].com.
I see what you did there (formMail.jsp aka a form emailer script)
These guys are not even trying.
/facepalm
Now, I should do my part as a good upstanding citizen and report them to the good folks at [CENSORED] to let them know their service is being abused.
...But First...
Let's submit their form... a few thousand times.
Yes. This is much better.
Now, I don't recommend revenge.
However, if you do fall victim to your inner desires, please respect the companies that are being exploited by these 14 year old script kiddies and mind your connection limits.
You just want to flood the kid's hotmail account with a few thousand emails and not bring down any ligitimate services in the process.
Yea ok, that was wrong, but it felt so good! :-)
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I'll delete these emails and move on
I have just downloaded the latest daily build and they have fixed the trailing slash issue but this still happen on my server.Thanks for this script...
Once your name ends up on just one list it keeps getting resold over and over. I had one email address that I only ever used to sign up for classmates.com years ago, who said they did not share information, but I had to shut the account because I was getting up to 200 spam messages a day. And I never posted that address anywhere, never used it for any other site, never gave it to anyone, never opened junk mail but somehow my address ended up on thousands of spam lists.
email scammers, what can I do about them? How can I get even, or stop them?
I hope this is right catagory.. I post a lot of ads on Craigs List, but most of emails I recive are people wanting to send bogus checks,and have me send check to shipping company I DO NOT BLAME CRAIGS LIST
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There must be a massive list for e-mail scammers on who they shouldn't e-mail back, and I must be on it. Recently, a couple princes wanted to send me money, an African woman wants to make a love connection with me and send me money, and I won the Spanish lotto..
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I have also getting up to 200 spam messages a day. And I never posted that address anywhere, never used it for any other site,What i should done with these....
email scammers, what can I do about them? How can I get even, or stop them?
I hope this is right catagory.. I post a lot of ads on Craigs List, but most of emails I recive are people wanting to send bogus checks,and have me send check to shipping company
Recently, a couple princes wanted to send me money, an African woman wants to make a love connection with me and send me money, and I won the Spanish lotto..
I used their support (live chat) for the first time last night and they sorted it right out which was great :-)
I do about them? How can I get even, or stop them?
Set the email as Spam/Junk. Or register a new email with a id that is not common word or easy to guess and share it only with your friend and don't publish online so that it will not be easy to guess.
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i bought an iphone from a scam e-mail i received and i want to mess with him because i'm pissed off, and don't tell me to let it go, i want to piss him off.
OK lets be honest , scammers will change e-mails , phones very often. When you start calling him he will simply buy new pre-paid phone, when you start to e-mail him , he will open new acc., if you paid for product and was not delivered call credit card and cancel the transaction
African woman wants to make a love connection with me and send me money, and I won the Spanish lotto..
he falls for scams but he isn't incapacitated. it isn't as if he can't get email in a retirement home. I think the easiest solution is for him to change his email address and not use it for anything other than friends and family and for the email newsletters that he wants. You can also install a spam filter (it's a software package).
I am being swamped with emails saying I've inherited millions, won millions, a charity has donated millions to me. I know they're scams, but can anything be done to stop these people. They often use big company names to look more legitimate, like Yahoo, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, ect.
Email scammers are the worst, especially if you receive an email for a service you dont use, i.e. an account you dont even have, but i like the way you handle it.
Ha ha, I'm going to give this a try tomorrow.
Set the email as Spam/Junk. Or register a new email with a id that is not common word or easy to guess and share it only with your friend and don't publish online so that it will not be easy to guess.
I always wanted to do this. Get an email program and reply maybe to their email about 100,000 time saying I am not interested. Don't know how legal this is so you may want to check with a lawyer first. (Denial of service maybe).
you could apply to the court to have him declared incompetent ..it means he's a menace to his own welfare.otherwise just tell him to his face that you're washing your hands of him, and mean it.
nice informations here.
I've had two emails now from Nigerian slammers, claiming to be a woman wanting money.I have an alternate email I use when signing up for most things.... so how did these people get my personal email address?
I am having this issue for about 2 years that those people keep spamming my email offering me millions of dollars and they want to know my full identity which I refused to give. What Federal Agency and Yahoo Service should I contact to stop this issue. Thank you.
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