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Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by saidnooneever »

mbernstein wrote: post #4
saidnooneever wrote: post #2

definitely a big issue especially with all the big places now vibe coding and leaking all our damned data in plaintext. a lot of people are getting hit real hard now. its not a joke or overstatement.

I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

I usually answer unknown numbers if they are from my own country only. And then i open with a sound like 'huh??' so they cannot do the voice cloning. if no one says anything then hang up. usually its robocalls using crappy TTS but there are crews with more advanced capabilities out there.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by c16 »

The only advice I give now is: If you're contacted and think it might be genuine, go direct to the website. Don't click anything.

I suspect it's the only reasonable advice now?

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by hmokiguess »

> Unlike most people, I actually read my spam folder on a regular basis.

I too suffer from this, and one thing that has been increasingly annoying to deal with, even worse than spam imo, is the cold outreach campaigns from software vendors, recruiters, marketers, etc.

I get so many of them that I am now getting to a point of considering writing my own rules engine to filter the noise, it's infuriating.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by bux93 »

windward wrote: post #65
iamcalledrob wrote: post #56

The "Cloud Storage Full - ACTION REQUIRED" emails sure aren't helped by Google, who communicate in a similar way. The amount of borderline harassment I get about my Google Drive being almost full is shocking. They have really amped up the ferocity of the language they're using to try and extract money from you for Drive. No wonder spammers are copying that.

My usage hit ~90% 5 years ago and hasn't shifted since. Apparently Google lack the means to see this line doesn't intersect with 100%, and no action is required. Thankfully they do have the means to change the wording of the emails I can't unsubscribe from. I don't know what the official reason is but the result is I have to modify my filters. Apple are no better. Choose between a permanent nag notification on Settin…

They know. They're hoping you don't notice the line doesn't intersect.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by georgefrowny »

iamcalledrob wrote: post #56

The "Cloud Storage Full - ACTION REQUIRED" emails sure aren't helped by Google, who communicate in a similar way. The amount of borderline harassment I get about my Google Drive being almost full is shocking. They have really amped up the ferocity of the language they're using to try and extract money from you for Drive. No wonder spammers are copying that.

I remember when Google promised Gmail storage would increase (quote) "forever". A mind blowing at the time 1GB at launch in 2004 to 2GB only a year later. Then 4 GB in 2007. This was prime Google doing cool stuff constantly time. Up to 10 by 2012 and then they rolled up Drive and Photos to 15GB in 2013.

It hasn't moved since.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by tempodox »

iamcalledrob wrote: post #56

The "Cloud Storage Full - ACTION REQUIRED" emails sure aren't helped by Google, who communicate in a similar way. The amount of borderline harassment I get about my Google Drive being almost full is shocking. They have really amped up the ferocity of the language they're using to try and extract money from you for Drive. No wonder spammers are copying that.

> No wonder spammers are copying that.

Are you sure it’s not the other way around?

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by Pwntastic »

rkomorn wrote: post #34
SchemaLoad wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scams got sophisticated a while ago where they would exactly replicate things like password reset emails and such including a whole fake replica website that looks identical to the real one. I saw someone fall for one recently where a scammer had created a fake announcement from an email sending company stating they were adding political messages to the bottom of your sent emails, and to log in to opt out. The look a…

Scams are getting good enough that I'm now skeptical/paranoid every time I get a legit email. "Click link" ? I think not. Gonna log in myself in a new window and try to navigate to the same thing on my own.

it doesn't help that all these companies' legitimate emails contain suspicious-looking links in the first place. the link tracking/shortening that's built into these services isn't doing them any favors for their actually important emails

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by MarleTangible »

Ucalegon wrote: post #25

Leaders in the email security space have been seeing this for a while now [0], this is not new. The problem is the means to protect consumer mailboxes outside of Gmail, isn't cost effective since most people do not actually pay for their consumer mailbox and the impacts of compromised accounts do not actually impact the providers. It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the consumer space as the co…

With various websites planning to introduce micro-transactions to read their contents, maybe the end-users should start charging for email deliveries.

You want to send me an email? Please give me $1 first, and if I don't like your content I can, without notice, change that number to $50 per email.

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