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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Happy St. Valentine's Day!



Sunday, February 12, 2006  

Happy St. Valentine's Day!


This spam just got past my filter, and it amused me enough to share it.
Fucking St. Valentine

What are you to do if you have bad erection? Especially
in the forthcoming Saint Valentines Day???
Don t worry, it is not the last of pea-time...
The most simple way is to visit our site, order the
medication and that is all you are to do!

Do not kill the clock!
I'd of course advise against clicking their URL, but I left it in since it goes to a real site, and not just a huge link farm or redirect hell. It's actually sort of interesting, since it lists about every prescription drug on earth, and they even have links to full info pages with the ingredients, warnings, side effects, and more. It's fun to read about the horrible things that can go wrong, and I got as far as "swelling or peeling of the skin inside mouth" before I gave up. Not that I need a gout drug anyway; I was just curious.

What's up with their text though? I love that charmingly-broken English. "Forthcoming?" And what the hell is "pea-time?" Also, St. V-Day is like, Tuesday. Is your Viagra really going to arrive in time for the big night?


On another, somewhat related subject, does anyone have any idea how Pay Pal or Ebay actually conduct business at this point? I get at least 50 emails a day from money-stealing bastards pretending to be those corporations, as well as every major bank on earth. The few that make it through my filter get tagged as spam and deleted at once, but what do people do who actually use ebay or paypal? Do you read your mails and try to figure which ones are legit? Or do those companies do it all with user log in stuff, so you sign on when you visit their site and then get messages to your online account, or something like that? I've never used ebay and haven't used PayPal since they decided I was a porn site and canceled my account, so I'm curious.

When I hear those stories about hackers with their vast armies of trojaned machines, I always think of these companies and the fake mails they create. What percentage of people with trojans and zombie PCs got infected clicking a mail they were sure was from a legitimate financial service? Half?
Comments:

I use paypal, though I try to use it as little as possible. Though I never have any problem with confusing thier emails with spam, because I never get any spam, well, perhaps 1 a fortnight. _And_ I have a hotmail account, _and_ I've given my adress out to over a dozen websites. I don't know what everyone else's problem is.


 

I never trust my PayPal emails. I'll always log in and check out my notices from the site. It's the only reliable way.


 

I frequently get scam emails claiming to be from paypal that look very legitimate. I never click through any of the links of course, but I usually do hover over them long enough to see that what says "go to my paypal account" is actually linking to myaccount.paypal.com@254.23.122.75 or something similar (been a while since I have gotten one come to think of it).

Usually the scam mails will be pretty obvious though since they will be saying that your account will be suspended if you don't click through a link to verify your password. If you are foolish enough to actually enter a password in a link you got via email -on a non-secure site, no less- you kind of deserve to get ripped off.


 

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