Most believable scam email :marseyxdoubt:

Do people honestly fall for this stuff? They must, I guess. But I can't understand why.

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They intentionally make them pretty obvious so only the most r-slurred fall for it. They don't want to waste their time on someone who might realize it's a scam halfway through

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Oh yeah I never thought of that. But I still can't believe people fall for it. Most intelligent species my butt.

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People are always looking for the easy way. It's just easier to give money then to file complaints and go to the police. You know that guy who is desperate and willing to buy a car without the keys? That's who this is directed at.

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There's a good chance that some people are watching porn on their computers and since there are always news stories about organisations and government departments getting hacked and data being stolen, some people will believe this scam.

All you need is enough people who are just stupid enough to believe this, and they don't need to be too stupid, just easily panicked. Fire out thousands and thousands of these scam emails every day, you'll hook some fish.

We got one of these on a work email and I'm more annoyed that our shitty IP provider let a list of email addresses get leaked/hacked than this attempt. What's funny is the evolution of such scams - there used to be heartstrings-tugging emails from widows who just needed the use of my bank account to transfer the huge sums of money their dear departed husband had left, now it's switched up to 'yeah this is blackmail you pervert' 😁 I don't know what that says about society!

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The smart scammers usually spoof the email so it looks like its send from your own email. Makes it much easier to believe for some people that someone hacked into their system.

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Yeah, that's what they do with the ones we get at work (it's an old email address that is going to be shut down soon). I could spend time trying to track down the real address, but it's not worth the bother, so I just read the scam, laugh, and delete it.

Someone who gets it on a private email address, though, might be scared enough to pay up, and that's all the chance these scammers need.

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Are you beach body ready?

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