Bastard Fuckers
I just received a spam scam from a bastard fucker pretending to be the Red Cross. It’s an appeal for donations for victims of the Tsunami.
The email has a red background and has the following in small print at the bottom:
“Thanks to a new bill passed by Congress, your donations made through Jan. 31, 2005 for tsunami disaster relief are eligible for a tax deduction on your 2004 return.”
Beware of bastard fuckers exploiting this terrible tragedy.
January 26th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Sonsabitches.
January 26th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
People shouldn’t donate money to anything by clicking on any website button or email link. If people want to donate, they need to go to reputable websites (like red cross or amazon, etc.) and donate there. I can’t believe people are stupid enough to fall for shit like that.
January 26th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
I got the same thing last night and notified both the American and Aussie Red Cross; when I checked earlier today, the site was gone.
January 26th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Must have been from the United Nations!
LOL
January 27th, 2005 at 5:49 am
“I canā??t believe people are stupid enough to fall for shit like that.”
That’s a bit harsh. Considering my 86 year old grandmother-in-law uses email to communicate with family members, I wouldn’t consider her stupid if she ended up getting conned by something like this. It’s important to remember that people from all walks of life and varying levels of “computer-savvyness” get sent scams like this.
January 28th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
I don’t doubt that is was a spam-scam, but that bit about January 2005 donations being eligible as 2004 deductions is true:
http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050108/504_1.html
January 28th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
People shouldn’t use the internet if they’re not educated enough to spot a scam email when they see one. They’re fairly easy to spot (you can tell by looking at the URL if it’s bogus). If they’re not educated, they’re going to get taken advantage of eventually.
February 8th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Actually, they’re getting more and more sophisticated, often using images ripped straight from the real pages… or even exploiting security holes in the real web page. There was one back in November where they could hijack a pop-up link on the real website and make it pop up the bogus site. Worse, last week a security company found a flaw in internationalized domain names (i.e. not limited to English letters, numbers and dashes) that makes it possible to create a URL that looks identical to a legit URL, but points to another website entirely. (Ironically, because IE never got around to adding support for IDNs, it’s safe, but Firefox, Opera, etc. are vulnerable.)
—got here through BlogExplosion.