Interesting combination of SPAM + Phishing + stupidity
this is obviously no news and the attachment as you all probably know is a trojan executable. The interesting part and kind of a test to determine who is more stupid, the one sending the message or the one opening and executing the attachment, the message is supposedly sent by UPS but signed as DHL Customer Service, sort of "Welcome to Wells Fargo, your Bank of America support team", duhhh. Also, almost 3 months to notify you that a package was not delivered ? Are spammers getting smarter ? or users getting dumber ? Cheers
From - Tue May 04 17:34:08 2010 Return-Path: <anidiot@spamheaven.kom> Delivery-Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 18:25:37 -0400 From: "UPS Manager Sal Erwin" <help@ups.com> To: <xyz@potential.moron.com> Subject: UPS Delivery Problem NR 97981. Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:25:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01CAEBD8.A43991A0"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0006_01CAEBD8.A43991A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello!
We failed to deliver the package you have sent on the 6th of February in time because the recipient’s address is wrong. Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
DHL Customer Services.
------=_NextPart_000_0006_01CAEBD8.A43991A0 Content-Type: application/zip; name="UPS_invoice_4978.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="UPS_invoice_4978.zip"
On Tue, 04 May 2010 19:38:15 CDT, Jorge Amodio said:
Are spammers getting smarter ? or users getting dumber ?
http://uxmag.com/short-news/these-are-your-users-read-and-be-horrified Remember that statistically speaking, roughly half of all people are below average on the IQ bell curve. A stupefyingly high percentage of your users are either illiterate, innumerate, or both, or severely lacking in critical thinking skills. In addition, keep in mind that the spammers and other miscreants probably come from the ends of that same bell curve - some brilliant guys who think they can do better than the average office job, and some bozos who can't get an average office job. A few years ago, I was watching CNN, and they had a segment on Yellowstone Park installing new bear-proof trash containers. They basically had a complex latch that was too complicated for bears. Unfortunately, a lot of tourists would be stumped (or not bother) and dumped their garbage outside the dumpster, and the bears would come along and get into the garbage. The take-away line of the segment was from a ranger at the park: "There appears to be significant overlap in intelligence between the smartest bear and the dumbest tourist".
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