We all hate spam. It
is annoying, clocking up our inbox, especially when we use free emails. Most of
the time we easily recognize and delete it. However spam can be very well done.
Attaching a fake invoice from one of the services that you actually use. It
contains a cryptolocker that encrypts your data, enforcing money from a victim
for unlocking it(if you are lucky). In Poland a couple of years ago, we had
huge allegro spam from Nigeria asking sellers to send merchandise using cash on
delivery(believe it or not, there were people who actually sent it :))
Spam not always shall be
frustrating. Here is an example that you can have some fun, chatting with
fraud:
1.Do you have any spam filter that actually works?
2.Have you ever been a victim of a cryptolocker? If yes, did you manage to recover your data?
3.Have you ever tried to answer a spam message and got some funny conversation?
Comments
Fortunately I've never been a victim of a cryptolocker. I never open unverified attachments. I only do this for educational purposes but in safe environment, where nothing bad can happen to my data.
I haven't thought about answering a spam. Maybe one day I'll try.
One more thing, don't settle for advertising when you register on the sites. But, if you did that you should be blocked email which sends to you spam .
I have never been a victim of a cryptolocker but I have read a lot of articles about that. You need to pay money to have your computer unlocked.
No, I have never answered to spam message... it's waste of time for me.
I also saw a guy who had actually helped out the scammer by sending him out a 30$ camera and making him make photos of his villiage. You can watch his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_yEnZlZFnM
I have my spam email adress compromised as in i get global telecom bills on it. Otherwise no i havent been a victim of anything major yet.
I dont have time for such experiments and more importantly nowadays u re even more vulnerable since most of the time we get files,pdf,zips with our spam mail.
Once my friend had situations with losing her whole computer. She opened mail from courier because she waited for parcel. Finally she got information that if she wanted to regain computer she had to pay. In the end she lost everything. No one could solve this problem.
I have never had any correspondence situations with unknown people.
Have I ever been a victim of a cryptolocker? Luckily not. I'm developer, so I see rather suspicious links/sites and just don't open/download stuff from there.
GMail's spam filter, which I use, has a high accuracy. They claim it is not so much due to the standard machine learning methods implemented but the community feedback they receive. Gmail community votes with their clicks to mark certain emails as spam and their algorithms learn from it.
I have not been a victim of cryptolocker myself, but the members of my family were and I helped them to recover their data.
I saw on reddit there are people who reply to spam emails for fun. Some claim that their Gmail accounts were blocked, because of sending too many replies with spam content. I would say, if you do it, be careful. Even if you create a fake account you may still face security risks. The emails that look like plain text may include strange compression formats or encrypted files. GMail is getting stricter about its allowed email attachment types (blocking many file extensions) but other applications were known to include, for example, preview pane exploits.
I use outlook mail currently and their own SPAM protection works great - I am not receiving any of that since 2 years.
2.Have you ever been a victim of a cryptolocker? If yes, did you manage to recover your data?
Yes, on one of my test VM. Did not have to recover anything - just used an option - Revert to snapshot and system was clean again. But that is just testing machine purpose of work.
3.Have you ever tried to answer a spam message and got some funny conversation?
Nope, because usually if you reply they will send you more.
No, I have never been a victim of a cryptolocker, I hope I will never face this problem.
No, I have never tried to answer a spam message, I think it's stupid and I don't have time to chat with random person .
The speech was more like stand-up show rather than TED talk. I can't say it wasn't funny or interesting, but it's hard to believe that someone spends a lot of free time on replying for these kind of emails. For me it's a waste of time and because of that I've never tried to reply on spam messages.
I think Gmail (which i use) has got spam filters build in. The only filters that i use are segragating my emails for few categories, such as: bilings, school, work etc. It's much more simpler to find specific mails.
No, I've never been a victim of cryptolocker. I believe I'm not valuable enough target.
No, I've never answered any spam emails. Actually, I usually don't open them at all, since they may contain malicious software. Usually it's detected by gmail filters or antivirus but everything could happen.
I don't have any problems with spammers or cryptolockers. Maybe I am just smart enough to not leave my e-mail everywhere I see.
Luckily, no, I haven't had any experience with this.
Yeah. You know these spam messages in the social media. In the past, I answered some of them but didn't get any answers. It was just boring.
I've never been a victim of cryptolocker.
I've never tried to reply to spam emails but everytime I see this video I'm about to just create a new email address and try to spread it everywhere on the internet and wait for spam. And then... try to get a conversation. But I'm lazy...
I use build in spam filters but sometimes they do not pass the exam.
Have you ever been a victim of a cryptolocker? If yes, did you manage to recover your data?
No I do not, but I heard about that. I also heard that even you pay the ransom, you do not get your data back
Have you ever tried to answer a spam message and got some funny conversation?
Not yet, but this guy inspired me to do so.
I use gmail mail that filters unwanted messages in a very good way. I have scripts on my servers that can serve mass messages as well. Fortunately, I have never been the victim of an attack, and all security programs keep me informed about the attempt to attack.
No, never been a victim to that, and hopefully I will never be. I do keep backups of my data that can't be locked without the person locking it having access to my physical disks. Even then, I still have backups in clouds, so I guess I'm good.
Yes, but not to waste much time writing the messages I just copypasted random questions from the internet. It was pretty hilarious, especially when I was getting legitimate answers to them.
I never answer a message I think I shouldn't have got. Just live it alone or delete.
No, I’ve never been a victim of a cryptolocker. I’m very careful about emails I’m receiving.
Haha, no, I’ve never done that. It could be funny, but on the other hand it’s a waste of time. But who knows, maybe someday I will try to troll some spammer :D.
I hope this hobby won't last for me for three years, as it was with speaker.
Algorithms for spam filtering today are not working well enough and our mailbox is filled with tons of messages. That only there are letters with viruses that can steal personal data and attack the computer. Spammers send millions of letters annually and receive dozens of answers. After entering into the correspondence, they begin to explain the situation, if necessary send confirmation documents, call by phone and in every way keep the victim. The ultimate goal is to make sure that the person has transferred money to the account of the swindler.
Even the most unfortunate consequences came to pass, when a deceived person not only lost money or his property, but also committed suicide.