Unwashed Village
General Discussion => Unwashed Village => Topic started by: BlueCross on January 07, 2015, 06:41:59 PM
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I just registered a new domain name, and within 24 hours I got an email with this subject line:
"Reminder: Search Engine Email ID Verification For trcroller.com is Pending"
Huh?
Well, all they wanted was my password for verification.
Right.
And the web site URL they included in the email ('http://searchregistry.biz/confirm?id=blah-blah') ('blah-blah' was some random ID code) actually pointed to a web site in India.
Googled and couldn't find anything on this subject nor on the domain name in India so I forwarded the whole thing to https://www.us-cert.gov/report-phishing which is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, and actually a pretty cool site.
I guess the Bad Guys wouldn't do stuff like this if it never worked. :(
I really do wish there was a way to make these people pay, either fines, jail time, purgatory, whatever.
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Yeah, and scamming people is so impersonal and automated now, its crazy. Those "people" sending you phising emails or nigerian scam emails aren't people at all, but bots who send out thousands at a time. It just blows my mind.
I like to think romantically of a time when people still bartered on the streets, and being scammed meant trading your gold for something worthless that you were led to believe was valuable. Almost like scamming was an artform that required wit, and the victim would feel shameful but since it happened in person, you would remember and learn from it. I don't know if things really happened like that, but Its interesting to think about. I don't condone thievery, but it has a certain idealistic charm to it.