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#51 2011-08-02 15:00:31
- The_Dancing_Donut
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Re: Wow, I can't believe how dumb some spammers/emailjackers are.
helltank wrote:
wmays wrote:
The_Dancing_Donut wrote:
I get lots of emails like this:
Dearmy friend,
Congratultons!! You has won $10000000000 [I'm not American] in special prize draw [I never entered]. Send all your personal details to us and we will transfers the money to your bank account.
Thanks you,
John Itchshiwahashiguruma
^^ A bit like that, in bad English and so obviously faked that it's scarcely believable that people actually fall for it!Dearmy?
I've found that people that make these things never bother with spelling.What a well designed scam email!
I would definitely have fallen for that.
It has only 10 spelling errors! I would hardly know the guy's not American. Wow, scary nowadays huh?
Yeah. I nearly fell for it, after all I'm sure John Itchshiwahashiguruma is real (with such a likely name), and American. And $10000000000 is soooooo useful fo a Brit, right? xD
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#54 2011-08-02 15:37:34
- ProgrammingFreak
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Re: Wow, I can't believe how dumb some spammers/emailjackers are.
You can usually tell when it is spam, because it's so plain and dull. So if it's supposedly from a professional company, you can tell if it's fake.
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#55 2011-08-02 15:40:01
Re: Wow, I can't believe how dumb some spammers/emailjackers are.
ProgrammingFreak wrote:
You can usually tell when it is spam, because it's so plain and dull. So if it's supposedly from a professional company, you can tell if it's fake.
Oh yeah, and one time my dad got a email from his bank saying that he needed to renew his online account with his credit card number.
Luckily windows blocked it for him 
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#56 2011-08-02 16:17:21
- brettman98
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Re: Wow, I can't believe how dumb some spammers/emailjackers are.
bananaman114 wrote:
Really.
I just stumbled onto one of their sites saying that I was Ontario's winner for July 4th, and asking me to claim my prize within 115 seconds. It had 3 choices- one a best buy gift card, one a gift card to the apple store, and the third I didn't notice.
Heh, we don't have Apple stores in Ontario. We might be getting one in Kitchener
(or was it Waterloo?) next year, but...
Discuss fails of this variety.
Wait, isn't July 4th an American holiday?
Whereas you live in Canada.
Wow.
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#57 2011-08-02 17:04:03
- ProgrammingFreak
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Re: Wow, I can't believe how dumb some spammers/emailjackers are.
jfmlove6 wrote:
ProgrammingFreak wrote:
You can usually tell when it is spam, because it's so plain and dull. So if it's supposedly from a professional company, you can tell if it's fake.
Oh yeah, and one time my dad got a email from his bank saying that he needed to renew his online account with his credit card number.
Luckily windows blocked it for him
Good. 
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