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They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by MarleTangible »

integralid wrote: post #30
shusaku wrote: post #29

For years I’ve read people claim that the reason spam emails were low quality was to filter for idiots. If the spammers are now reaching for coding agents to clean up the presentation, it seems that theory was bunk.

That theory was always bunk. People just can't comprehend, that the average spammer really is that bad. So that theory was created to make sense of that. Because of my work I investigated a lot of spam, and I discovered real life identities of senders in many cases (because of horrible or no exostent opsec). Most of them were either underage, lived in third world countries, or both.

The new trend is that the legitimate corporations sending you spam regardless of your communication settings, or even after unsubscribing for the 10th time.

Yes, I'm looking at you Teal HQ, you're spamming us even 3 months after deleting our accounts.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by Ekaros »

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.

Both spammers and google's mail is in my spam box in gmail... Both messages are very similar... And google's contain the classic urgency baits. Not being able to receive email and so on...

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by delimit »

The spam angle is interesting but the bigger problem is vibe-coded API changes that silently break downstream consumers. Someone generates a new endpoint, renames a field, changes a response shape — and nothing catches it because there's no schema diffing in the CI pipeline. Silent breaking changes in internal APIs are way harder to catch.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by wolpoli »

vancroft wrote: post #51

Email clients should just strip out hyperlinks. You link in the email? Write it directly, then people can copy/paste it. It wouldn't stop all phishing, but it would be a start to increase people's awareness of shady links.

I am quite surprised that Google hasn't done this in the name of security, as email, one of the few channel that brands do not have to pay any middleman, is a competitor to search ads.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by gitmagic »

varispeed wrote: post #11
gitmagic wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, except for when I’m expecting a delivery, then I tend to answer calls from unknown numbers.

I solved this by renting small office that has reception and they handle deliveries. They are not far and so if I get something I get a text and then I collect when is convenient for me. I really hate waiting for couriers to ring, so it's a massive stress relief.

That’s also what I want to do. I currently have my office/lab at home and waiting for deliveries to come is very stressful as I basically have to be ready to answer the door at any time, which can be many hours.
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