Subj : Re: Austria/Belgium in cahoots with Italy
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Mar 04 2021 02:47 pm

Hi August,

On 2021-03-04 07:58:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> Why do you spend time on these obvious scams? I don't even
 WvV>> see most of them, because my spam filter takes care of
 WvV>> them. The few ones that get through I just delete... ;)

 AA> Why?  Partly because they don't look entirely obvious. I don't
 AA> use any special spam filters except for what Outlook (desktop)
 AA> might deem suspicious.   Gmail seems to do things pretty well
 AA> autonomously (I've seen repeated spam/scam there) And my ISP's
 AA> web interface using Roundcube has filters that I built to ignore
 AA> certain annoying and obvious ones like the .buzz TLD.

My ISP has their own spamfilter, which is managed by fulltime professionals. And I also use gmail, which probably has even more professionals dealing with this. As an amateur you can't do better, so I trust them.

 AA> The domain/link above looks entirely benign, although it was
 AA> hidden with the "graphic" button that the html message produced.

 AA> And.. I find it rather interesting how persistent some scammers
 AA> are with old techniques.

They don't care, as long as they get a couple of responses to the millions of messages the send out (at very little cost), it's worth there while...

 AA> One of the emails that utilized a header field to trigger the
 AA> potential launch of a script - really pissed me off.

 AA> Perhaps the best strategy would be not to share and disclose
 AA> "discoveries" like these in general, anywhere.  That way, the
 AA> perpetrator wouldn't understand why their cleverly designed
 AA> "DHL" emails for example are never taken as bait.

See above. And let the professionals deal with it.


Bye, Wilfred.

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