Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam?
CTDummy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The same reason a lot scam emails are riddled with typos, follow recognisable formats (eg nigerian prince) and can be easily determined as scams. If you can spot it you aren’t the mark. It’s a form of selection bias. If your recognise Nicole you probably aren’t new to Lemmy or the Fediverse and are a bad mark. I’d guess, I never followed the links, don’t generally follow links dm’d from random, days old accounts in general. Maybe Nicole truly is just thirsty for Lemmy friends and keeps getting banned lmao.
If you can spot it, you aren’t the mark.
This doesn’t make any sense to me.
Why would you deliberately make your bait less appealing to filter out the fish that might wriggle off the hook before you land them?
The typo’s are in order to evade bayesian spam filters which get suspicious about certain words.
The common formats are used because those are the ones that work.
The initial fishing is a low effort, wide net. What follows actually takes the investment of man hours and/or other resources. They would rather get 1 catch they can take all the way, than 500 where 495 will figure it out later and bail.
Sure but there’s no evidence that the typos effectively weed out the ones they don’t want.
No evidence that we have. The spammers obviously think it’s worth doing however, and they are the ones that would have the statistics.
Because you’re selecting with people who lack experience with scam/critical thinking to figure out they’re scams.
I understood you the first time. My point is, it’s nonsensical.
If you’re sending emails to potential victims you want as many responses as you can get.
It’s an absurdity to suggest that typing errors would intelligently select for people more likely to be scammed.
I’m not arguing about this. Especially not with a baby account. This is an opinion informed by expert opinion on the matter, and I work in tech. If you think it’s “nonsensical” that’s on you.
However, the reason why phishing emails have so many typos is simple—they’re intentional and are included by design. The scammer’s goal is to send phishing emails to a very gullible, innocent victim. If they have typos, they’re essentially weeding out recipients too smart to fall for the scam.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly people that do recognize it for what it is should respond. Keep them talking to waste their time so they can’t hurt someone else.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But then you’re also wasting your own time.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we all wasted 5 minutes we could shut down the system.
People really underestimate the power of collective action. It’s just meat based ddos.
Glide@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What a fascinating sentence.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean if “everyone” collective action ignored them together, no one would have to waste time ¯_(ツ)_/¯
But yes I understand it of course, protecting the weak is not a bad thing.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
“They” will be an LLM.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. I always love talking to Indian scammers when they call about my student loans that don’t exist.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I already asked 2 scammers on discord for bathwater and they never took me up on it :( it’s a cruel world
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yep, then of course this doesn’t matter :) go for it!
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
yeah but it’s fun
CTDummy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That easier done with more involved scams like phone calls you see YouTubers do. Especially since they likely paid for that info. Places like here there no buy in so it’s a volume game i imagine. If I can’t get you to another platform to buy me stuff I’d move on to the next one quickly as possible.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had one Indian scammer use my name so I was interested. Then he asked if my email was still current and gave an email that I used like 20 years ago in middle school. I laughed and told him he paid for shitty info. It was a goddamn Hotmail account to give you an idea.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Their time is worthless, they use slave labor.
Tower@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And if you can get them to do stupid things, you can post about it here!
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