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I’m pretty sure most spam senders black hole any response, the money is in the target clicking a link and no where else.
by jawr 4y ago
I’m pretty sure most spam senders black hole any response, the money is in the target clicking a link and no where else.
- crummy 4y agoDon't most of the "nigerian-prince" type scams involve some kind of back-and-forth?
- themitigating 4y agoUsing a link to a website to start the process
- BenjiWiebe 4y agoI get a number of spam emails with no links. Just plain text, wanting a back and forth.
- jawr 4y agoI suspect that’s more an attempt to warm up a domain/ip or something. Manually replying to emails wouldn’t scale
- crummy 4y agoHmm. I confess I don't often go into my spam folder but was just going from what I recall of the back-and-forths on https://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm https://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
- jabroni_salad 4y agoLook up 'pig butchering' when you get a chance. It is an elaborate process of convincing your mark to fall in love with your persona and asking them to send it money. It takes months to years to execute but marks end up losing their properties, retirement accounts, life savings, everything to it.