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I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
Really cool. Two remarks: 1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help. 2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue! 2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
One of the goals is to find someone who'll fall for such a scheme. If it was more plausible, they'd waste time on someone who'd end up not pulling the trigger when they realized it was too likely to be a scam.
I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
I usually just pretend that i just killed someone to get the money they asked for.
In amongst the scripts to waste their time have a few to freak them out.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue! 2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
I have inputs.space expiring on Feb 17, do you want it?
EDIT: Opened https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/7 to track this.
I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
One of the goals is to find someone who'll fall for such a scheme. If it was more plausible, they'd waste time on someone who'd end up not pulling the trigger when they realized it was too likely to be a scam.
The problem with Spam has always been the minuscule cost of doing it. If the cost can rise above the profit, spam could become unattractive. Imagine if spam attracted a sudden swarm of bots, just as a new email addy attracts spammers now.
El cheapo bots have pretty basic English skills which can help them fit naturally into the spam target patterns.