Holiday Giveaway - Day 2

TylerM wrote:

 

 @mmaner

 

That's so awesome!  Thanks guys, I really appreciate it :).

This is the only one I've seen recently that didn't immediately make Spidey sense tingle :).  Is simple, and therefore more effective.

mmaner wrote:

This is the only one I've seen recently that didn't immediately make Spidey sense tingle :).  Is simple, and therefore more effective.

 

 

Playing on people’s Christmas positivity and hoping their guard will be down no doubt!

I usually delete them all but this one from last year i did keep because I found it 1) utterly rubbish to point of being funny and 2) totally irrelevant as I don’t even pay tax on my vehicle! 🤣

MunkeyMan wrote:

mmaner wrote:

This is the only one I've seen recently that didn't immediately make Spidey sense tingle :).  Is simple, and therefore more effective.

 

 

Playing on people’s Christmas positivity and hoping their guard will be down no doubt!

True story.  These groups have zero limits, which means out mitigation techniques have to allow for that.

I also liked the ones that did the rounds this year in Twitter with “celebrities” giving bitcoin away...I mean how naive can some people be?

mmaner wrote:

MunkeyMan wrote:

mmaner wrote:

This is the only one I've seen recently that didn't immediately make Spidey sense tingle :).  Is simple, and therefore more effective.

 

 

Playing on people’s Christmas positivity and hoping their guard will be down no doubt!

True story.  These groups have zero limits, which means out mitigation techniques have to allow for that.

Yeah nothing surprises me anymore. Its also the charity themed scams that really make my blood boil!

I find that most people are far too trusting when it comes to computers, they just feel inherently protected.  Its like “a computer can’t lie right?” :).

One of my favorite quotes…

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

It’s true, but really crappy that we have to be such a cynical society these days.

Yeah it is, I agree 100%.

Look at the email address. It should be Rogers.com

I know I’ve seen better ones than this, but generally don’t really hang on to phish emails.

This one I saw recently gave me a little chuckle. I am totally going to email them to take me off the list. lol

 This is a common one which I got but they always crop up all the time. But why would the Australia Post send me anything when I am in the UK?
 

But always watch out for seemingly harmless survey ones, the surveys just harvest all your presonal information. Facebook for example is full of them.

Jasper_The_Rasper wrote:

 This is a common one which I got but they always crop up all the time. But why would the Australia Post send me anything when I am in the UK?
 

 

But always watch out for seemingly harmless survey ones, the surveys just harvest all your presonal information. Facebook for example is full of them.

 

 

Yeah! The amount of relatives that share these sort of posts on Facebook is ridiculous. I am forever messaging family members to let them know that their Aldi or Center Parcs freebies are fraudulent and they ain’t winning anything!

I don’t receive too many phishing attempts. Perhaps we have our email filtering set too tightly?

The best ones I’ve seen are always copies of valid emails from PayPal, Amazon, or Microsoft from obviously fake email addresses and with links changed to unrelated addresses.

Here is one from a customer

Jasper_The_Rasper wrote:

 This is a common one which I got but they always crop up all the time. But why would the Australia Post send me anything when I am in the UK?
 

 

But always watch out for seemingly harmless survey ones, the surveys just harvest all your presonal information. Facebook for example is full of them.

 

 

I don’t do any type of Survey PERIOD! 😉

ProTruckDriver wrote:

Jasper_The_Rasper wrote:

 This is a common one which I got but they always crop up all the time. But why would the Australia Post send me anything when I am in the UK?
 

 

But always watch out for seemingly harmless survey ones, the surveys just harvest all your presonal information. Facebook for example is full of them.

 

 

I don’t do any type of Survey PERIOD! 😉

Oh yeah. Have definitely seen some like that PayPal one. They can be pretty deceptive if you don’t know what to look for.

I got a Paypal one and yea right $399.00 for Norton 360 Renewal.

And another in the Spam Folder and it matches the email address above??

MunkeyMan wrote:

mmaner wrote:

This is the only one I've seen recently that didn't immediately make Spidey sense tingle :).  Is simple, and therefore more effective.

 

 

Playing on people’s Christmas positivity and hoping their guard will be down no doubt!

Yes, sadly this is a great time of year to scam people.

Ive started to get a few recently about my “Wallet” and “Apple Pay”.

Does make you think as I use these all the time.

Shame they show a link which is obviously fake though, poor efforts!

These are all great thanks everyone!