NLT> Have you received the one with the subject line, "Bad things are
being said on line". It give you a link to go to find out your
"reputation report"
I would say that my junk mail has at least a dozen of *forms* of
phishing in it, though maybe that is *my* junk *plus* my that of my
wife's, as I provide (poor) tech support for tuning her junk filters as
well. There must be a compiled list somewhere of these (Snopes?)...
here are the ones that come to mind right off the bat!
Your Credit Score Changed
Your PayPal (peypal.com!) account needs attention
Your FezBewk/LinkedOut/Pincherest/Tumblation/Gmule/etc... account has
been hozed...
Nigerian (or lots of different) official has a bunch of ill-gotten gains
for you, just send your bank account info...
Dating (straight, L, G, B, T, fetish, dom, sub, <disgusting stuff deleted>)
Your Mac/PC is low on memory/has a problem/has a virus
YOU MAY HAVE WON! (anyone go see Nebraska?)
Bad things have been said about you! See what they are!
Your friend (insert generic name) is trying to reach you!
et cetera
...
What fascinates *me* are the ones which have *no* apparent point. I've
gotten a LOT of interesting poetry in the last few months... one liners
to usually no more than six liners with a link (almost always some
eastern european/Russian country DNS)... There are also often strange
gibberish (Lewis Carrollesque "Slivey Toves" and "Borerang" type
nonsense)...
I'm wondering if these "no apparent purpose" games are some kind of salt
or tracer... sending it out (modified by an algorithm) to see where it
shows back up? Something like e-mail Tomography? (Finding mail
archives, discussion groups (like this one) who discuss such things,
etc.???)
Great business model. All I can do not to look to see what they have
on me. But I figure that with the number of people named Nicholas
Thompson in this world (we are as thick on the ground as rabbits in
Australia) if somebody is saying bad things about at least one of us,
the world is a very strange place, indeed.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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