This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our info@lemmy.world mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like.
~Lemmy World Team.
Hello I am Tim from Microsoft Apple Your computer has a virus and I need you to do the needful
having info@microsoft.com as your personal email would be pretty sick. i would love to put that on my resume
Such good English, too. How could you not trust that?
Jesus. Phishing emails like this have become so commonplace I actually miss the old Viagra spam emails in l33tspeak.
When’s the last time you checked your spam folder, 2003? I legitimately haven’t seen the 1337sp34k spam in 20 years. Lately it’s been Africans leaving me money at the embassy that I have to go pick up
For some reason I seem to be getting a lot of spam emails in French. And all of the links are pretending to be French Canadian postal service websites.
I don’t know why because I’m neither French nor Canadian. Nor have I ever been to Canada.
Why are these sorts of things always written by somebody who can clearly barely speak English?
I read that this was to weed out savvy people. People who aren’t skeptical of poorly written emails or messages are their target audience. Could be wrong though.
I think it’s mostly an unintended benefit. These scams are usually run out of countries with English as a second language, so you get some grammatical errors in translation. It does increase the conversion rate, though, so they don’t bother spending extra money getting a native English speaker to copy edit.
Yes, exactly this. You want people who can’t see behind the simple facade. Because they are more likely to be easily fooled. You don’t want to work someone who is very sceptical or just moderately sceptical. In that time you could work through a bunch of people that can’t see behind this and pull out money from them.
Scammers want easy marks. Why wouldn’t someone make it easier for themselves by naturally filtering out people that can’t be easily fooled?
What is unclear? All you have to do is resolve the Lemmy world app on Android and install the errors on your iPhone mail.
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