Pathetic scammers

[driverrob]

I just received an email from Amazon (purportedly).

It began:

"Dear Costumer,

Greetings from Amzaon.co.uk

We received a request to update your account associated with this e-mail address. This is a request from our server, please follow the instructions below.

Click the link below to continue using our secure server:"

Would many people be daft enough to click on the link, do think?

[anonymous-user]

Because people are stupid and make assumptions.

[ZesPak]

driverrob said:

Would many people be daft enough to click on the link, do think?

Yes.

Even if it's only 0.1%, if they send out 10000 mails/day, they get 10 accounts.

[Hugo a Gogo]

driverrob said:

I just received an email from Amazon (purportedly).

It began:

"Dear Costumer,

Greetings from Amzaon.co.uk

they have to dress it up like that, in order to disguise it

you'll never clothe these people down

seriously though, I read that they deliberately mis-spell things and use poor grammar, people who don't noticed it are likely to be more gullible/stupid, so you've filtered out many of the people who wouldn't fall for it

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Monday 24th November 09:48

[driverrob]

Hugo a Gogo said:

.... I read that they deliberately mis-spell things and use poor grammar, people who don't noticed it are likely to be more gullible/stupid, so you've filtered out many of the people who wouldn't fall for it

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Monday 24th November 09:48

That's an interesting thought.

[Hugo a Gogo]

driverrob said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

people who don't noticed it

That's an interesting thought.

that's a deliberate typo in there!

[masermartin]

It's not helped when banks (Lloyds, I'm looking at you) insist on sending marketing emails with "login" links in them..

I've rung them and complained on numerous occasions but they still keep doing it.