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artfizz

Just curious about:

1. can a thread self-identify as a Troll? 

2. can a thread intended as humorous be a troll? e.g. "Chess.com is con because ... most of the people there can't play chess!"

andropov

Im not familiar with the term "Troll". Do you mean spam information?

AtahanT

IBTL

artfizz

Spamming is sending the same inappropriate message to lots of people.

Trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory comments in order provoke people into responding.

artfizz
AtahanT wrote: IBTL

Not necessarily. That comment can still be deleted, you know.

artfizz

Phishing is very popular in Sweden.

AtahanT
artfizz wrote:
AtahanT wrote: IBTL

Not necessarily. That comment can still be deleted, you know.


But I'll still be IBTL even if my comment is gone.

andropov

There has been some incidents. But I think thats a problem anywhere there is a market or a bankingsystem on the net.

Sweden has a quite good digital infrastructure so that probobly why criminals try to use the potensial of som naive people who are not used to how to protect themselfes.

artfizz

"There is we believe some kind of worldwide minimum standard for phishing expeditions, which demands at least a level of literacy, a false bank log-in page and a plausible alert to hook victims.

 

If you really can't be arsed with all that, though, why not just throw out a quick email and wait for those intimate banking details to roll in? We're obliged to the Reg reader who was this morning delighted to receive this pitch:

From: HSBC BANK [benno209@gmail.com]

Dear valued customer Incidentally,there is an emergency shortlited varified problem in your account which there is a need to restore Pls send us all the enqiures of your bank account so that the varified problem will be entirely and stupidiously retrieve. Thanks for banking with us

And that represents the entire content of the email. No graphics, no links, nothing, save some exceptional English and a truly stupidious gmail addy. Make no mistake, this classic has been shortlited for bone-idle scam email of the year."

artfizz

I hadn't come across the term vishing before.

Aaron81

I recently recieved a cell phone call phishing scam! "Hello XXX Bank recently experienced...." And it was a bank that I do bank at.  It was an auto dialer with numerical options.  I didn't fall for it, but it was very convincing.

artfizz
Aaron81 wrote:

I recently recieved a cell phone call phishing scam! "Hello XXX Bank recently experienced...." And it was a bank that I do bank at.  It was an auto dialer with numerical options.  I didn't fall for it, but it was very convincing.


They just installed a new answering system at the clinic I attend. It asks anyone suffering from obsessive/compulsive disorder to press one repeatedly. If he or she is paranoid, press two but don't look behind you. If you have multiple personalities, have your alter ego, press three, four and five. And, if you have a self-esteem problem, don't waste our time. 

Conflagration_Planet

 It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

artfizz
woodshover wrote:  It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

You're not confusing this with a zombie thread, are you?

kco
artfizz wrote:

They just installed a new answering system at the clinic I attend. It asks anyone suffering from obsessive/compulsive disorder to press one repeatedly. If he or she is paranoid, press two but don't look behind you. If you have multiple personalities, have your alter ego, press three, four and five. And, if you have a self-esteem problem, don't waste our time. 


 (cont.) If you are having six right now, press six.

Conflagration_Planet
artfizz wrote:
woodshover wrote:  It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

You're not confusing this with a zombie thread, are you?


 I feel like one right now.

domecraft

no reason for this page to be up.  MODS..... DELETE

 

 

GUESS WHAT THIS IS....

8==D

artfizz
domecraft wrote: no reason for this page to be up.  MODS..... DELETE ...

I would contend that this does not qualify as a troll.

ChessieSystem101

Bump.