Do You Really Think I’m Stupid Enough to Fall for That?
Seen over the comment threads on some blogs lately:
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory(at)yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you (posted verbatim)
Classic social engineering attempt. Straight out of the Social Engineering for Dummies handbook (if there was ever one).
Do you really think people would fall for this one?
Okay, maybe a couple of dummies or so will contact you and link to your site in the hopes of lessening the spam comments they get.
The moment you write these people, they’ll have your email address and include it in their ever-growing list of harvested emails. They’ll sell these for a few bucks to other spammers or to shady companies that use not-so-nice marketing techniques (like spam).
Quite a crafty and creative way of doing things, if I might say so. Spammers are getting creative these days. But I’m not falling for it.
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SPAM Help Service - Scatterism said this on September 6, 2007 5:09 am
I got that same email as well – and actually it’s a form of blackmail as you can easily read between the lines: link to me and you won’t get spam, don’t and you will.
These scum may be getting creative but they’re walking a fine line between blatant blackmail, which I’m sure the authorities (ie: FBI) would be more than happy to hear about.
How long till we see another scammer arrested and sent off to prison and all that entails with it … ie: don’t fumble the soap
Jack said this on September 9, 2007 3:53 pm