Are the scammers just getting lazy?

jahalpin

I just recieved an e-mail from "PayPal"

PayPal


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The scammer didn't even try to hide their real web address, are they just getting lazy? They didn't even bother doing a proper mail-merge on the e-mail

Morlar

maybe its a sign the scammers are outsourcing these jobs ?

javaboy

jahalpin wrote: »

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The scammer didn't even try to hide their real web address, are they just getting lazy? They didn't even bother doing a proper mail-merge on the e-mail

Didn't you read this perfectly legitimate email? They can't send you to the normal paypal site because of a server update. Hence the penhill-news.co.uk link.

All looks above board to me. Go for it.

Mimikyu

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Dinter

Funny and all as these emails are you have to remember those fukers are in actual fact stealing money from people.

Fair enough, natural selection insists that the people scammed should be scammed due to their basic stupidity but for the same reason I wouldn't find a blind man being hit by a car he didn't see, funny, I don't think they're funny.

Fukin thieving, cowardly, pr1cks the lot of them.

Morlar

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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Even the OAP's & mentally ill ?

javaboy

Morlar wrote: »

Even the OAP's & mentally ill ?

Who's been letting OAP's on the internet? :mad:

Dinter

javaboy wrote: »

Who's been letting OAP's on the internet? :mad:

It's not even just the internet.

My mum got one of those through the post about a month ago!! It was addressed to her by her first name and said she'd one some sort of world lottery.

She was fairly disappointed when we all started taking the piss!

TeletextPear

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The scammer didn't even try to hide their real web address, are they just getting lazy? They didn't even bother doing a proper mail-merge on the e-mail

what's a COO??

seamus

TeletextPear wrote: »

what's a COO??

Chief Operating Officer.

Requires a degree in wankology and a PhD in bull****.

smellslikeshoes

That looks like one of the better ones to me, could easily click on that in a sleep deprived state, plenty of much worse ones.

p-flaps

has any one chanced clicking on it?!!

would it lead to a virus or is it just phishing for details, or a reply?

Curlypinkie

I reckon scammers like that should be shot. They target people with not very good english skills or internet skills. I used to work in a bank and we had this elderly chap from somewhere in the bog of Norway calling that he thought we were paying him money. In fact his account had been cleaned to the last penny. He was living on his own and was somewhere around his late 60ies early 70ies. We all felt so sorry for him but we couldn't do anything at all....:mad:

javaboy

seamus wrote: »

Chief Operating Officer.

Requires a degree in wankology and a PhD in bull****.

I'm doing a nightcourse in wankology. I'm hoping for a management type job.

ntlbell

jahalpin wrote: »

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The scammer didn't even try to hide their real web address, are they just getting lazy? They didn't even bother doing a proper mail-merge on the e-mail

Generally people are so stupid the scam/mer doesn't have to be very smart

phasers

Paypal send me nice thank you emails when I report these guys

Go-Go-Gadget

p-flaps wrote: »

has any one chanced clicking on it?!!

would it lead to a virus or is it just phishing for details, or a reply?

it brings you to another page to fill in your details.

A_M101

We had an elderly priest visiting at Christmas, he told of a scam where people got emails from there "bank", gave their details and were robbed (my brother and myself sit there smirking). He goes and tells that even a Trinity professer was scammed...but then for the best line...

"Turned out to be two Morrocans from Cork!"

Fighting Irish

jahalpin wrote: »

The scammer didn't even try to hide their real web address, are they just getting lazy? They didn't even bother doing a proper mail-merge on the e-mail

Theres enough stupid people around that you could probably name the site www.thanksforyourpaypaldetails.com and they would still click

Defenestrate

I got one the other day. I signed the e-mail address up for numerous special offers in the field of babycare, with his name set as 'Mr Stupid Moron'. I only wish I could see the look on his face when babycare companies start e-mailing him abuse!

Honey-ec

A_M101 wrote: »

"Turned out to be two Morrocans from Cork!"

Probably McCarthy Moors...

humanji

phasers wrote: »

Paypal send me nice thank you emails when I report these guys

Actually, there's a point. OP, did you report it to Paypal? It's an uphill struggle trying to stop these guys, but just like at ASDA, every little helps.

here.from.day.1

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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+1!