Spam emails

[kane_magus]

Over the past month or so, I have gone from getting no spam at all to over 80 of the goddamned things sitting in my inbox this morning (and probably have received at least half that many more again just between this morning and now). It started as a trickle a few weeks ago or so, but now it has become a fucking deluge.

And it's really loony, flagrantly spam shit, like...

• "MESSAGE : 🔞 Hello, 💋𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🍑𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐝!______kjtkn"
  • from "🔞Meet&Fuck💋"
• "💦𝗣E𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐥𝟎𝐧𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐂𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐑𝐞𝐭🍌🔥(𝐖O𝐫𝐤𝐬_𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲_𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞)🥒►𝐖𝐀𝐓c𝐇_𝐅re𝐄_𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄O🔥► 68798"
  • from "🍌𝗘𝗗-𝟭𝟴.𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗛🔥"
• "💲Your Money>>💰5000$_ Added To Your Account ✅✅💸 Check Your Account Now 💲✅You Have Been Paid💲💲💰___314"
  • from "💲CashApp"
• "Payment-Declined-Order#290-1572-NML"
  • from "ᴅɪsɴᴇʏ +"
• "YouhavewonanFireTablet-2985161 -505"
  • from "@Walmart"

...and other such brazen dumbshit like that. And all of the email addresses associated with this blatant spam shit are invariably giant strings of random characters and certainly not anything that would even remotely resemble an email from Disney or Walmart or any other actually legitimate business.

On the one hand, I don't get how spammers can be so fucking stupid as to think that anyone at all ever would fall for glaringly kooky shit like that.

On the other hand, I know damn well that some people out there really are so fucking stupid that they would fall for lame shit like that, otherwise the spammers wouldn't keep blasting out dozens upon dozens of emails like that hoping for a bite.

At first, I was just updating my spam filters on Thunderbird to better automatically delete them on arrival, but now I've also started forwarding them to a few .gov emails that I found online which apparently exist explicitly for the purpose of having spam/phishing emails forwarded to them. Probably a useless endeavor, though, outside of mild catharsis.

Comments

[goldpseudo]

Spammers actually make their spam blatantly obvious like that on purpose: They don't want to waste their time hooking anyone with half an actual brain in their head, they only want people who are stupid enough to actually fall for something like this. Being a blindingly obvious trap is a natural filter against basic intelligence.

[kane_magus]

That makes sense. Little point in wasting time crafting a more carefully made email scam that might still tweak a half-way alert person's "too good to be true" nerve regardless.

In any case, if there's one thing that the last almost decade has laid bare and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, it's that there are far too many very clueless, gullible people out there, and some (slightly) smarter people willing to overtly scam them for everything they're worth. ¬_¬