Dear all,
a message from a silent Italian friend (I'm a subscriber having
been several
times in Santa Fe for the SwarmFest and other meetings).
What is very interesting for me is that the "Archangel Michael's
Message For You"
text reproduces a quite archaic format used in Italy, b
I also am mildly fascinated by spam/phish mail. Much of it, like Eric,
leaves me wondering A) WHO would take the bait and why and B) WHAT are
the mechanisms afoot?
I like to think that I am mildly more sophisticated than the average
e-mail user but still likely subject to some of the more soph
There is also the possibility that simply having an e-mail delivered could
trigger an exploitable behavior in your e-mail client, e.g. code that runs when
a meeting invite arrives, displaying an image, etc.
On 8/17/19, 9:07 AM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson"
wrote:
Eric, Glen,
Eric, Glen,
There are two moments when I am vulnerable to pfishing. Yes, the first is when
I am bored. Stipulated. But the second, and worst, is when I am
extraordinarily stressed. So, if, on such a day, a message comes which says
that "my mastercharge account has been breached", the "leetl
So, being technically only semi-literate, here is the main response I have to
the spam-ocean in which we now all seem to be adrift.
As for Michael below, I cannot imagine anyone would deliberately follow up
anything like this, except bored people who click on a link to see what kind of
entertai
This is the best spam I've received in a long time! And it's all thanks to my
broken spamassassin config. Am I alone in finding spam and phishing email
fascinating? I'm procrastinating fixing SA because my spam is more interesting
than my "ham".
Maybe the most interesting was the one claiming t
