"You visit illegal websites"
sitting in VLSB and just finished most of my history response paper. and just got this seemingly intimidating email with the above title. it's obviously some kinda virus email, but perhaps i'm exceptionally wacky after 2.5 hrs of writing or so and decided to look more closely at this virus email...
ok so the sender is "Department@fbi.gov" and so just these two bits of info made me 10% scared when i first got it. but as i thought a little more about it, it seems almost laughable that they think their recipients would fall for their ploy. Firstly, if i really committed some crime visiting "more than 30 illegal websites" why would FBI care about such petty crimes and why would i be so 'easily let off' by answering the questionnaire they attached with the email? Secondly, Department@fbi.gov actually makes little sense.... so vague, so many depts... highly unlikely that any or every dept's gonna give a damn (i dun usually use such phrases, but just for the sake of flow for this sentence =P) whether you surf illegal websites? What's interesting though is that they included a Washington DC address and phone number... i wonder how authentic that is. but aiyah what i mean to say is that if you invest so much energy creating some lethal virus, at least invest more time in making it sound authentic right? else waste so much energy and no one gets the virus cos it seems like a horrible joke....
alright i'm officially bo liao. i should take a break and go for lunch..... =P
2 comments:
the problem is that while you or i might not fall for it (i got the same email today), there still are people who do. for eg., awhile ago there were the Nigeria scams where someone sent you an email claiming that they had hundreds of millions and could share a big part of it with you if u gave them your bank acct or something. we might've dismissed it after a few laughs, but those emails managed to get 1 or 2 people to bite for every 100 that were sent (dunno the exact figure la but there definitely were victims), and they got cheated of hundreds or thousands of dollars. -Yingping
hmmmm true... of course i believe that there are people who fall for it ;)but all the same, if it's better designed, there will be many more victims? i just thought given the amount of effort you spend inventing some virus/scam or whatever, isn't it a "waste" (to them)if shoddiness at the last stage undermines the "lethality" of their whole plan? hmm anyway, why am i thinking for them..?! ha.
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