Comment on I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers

morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• synapse3252@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like a phishing attempt. Check the URL listed on the embed

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  • StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Looks legit to me, everyone knows the hostname valve[.]app579823[.]com is owned by valve /j

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In seriousness, though, one of these type of sites looked like a scam but they warned me that my Driver Registry needed defragmentation to avoid WiFi Corruption and had a free download to fix it so, y’know, swings and roundabouts.

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      • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        my Driver Registry needed defragmentation to avoid WiFi Corruption

        That’s their tech literate filter, which helps them not waste time on people that would almost definitely catch-on to their scam before actually getting scammed.

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