We humans always find a way to make technology work for us. And so do scammers.
Today I got a neat one that uses the old PayPal phish tactic seasoned with a nice dose of social discomfort [my bolds]:
"We recorded a payment request from "Live Strip Chat Camera Sexy Girls -www.video-chat.co.uk - Girls Show" to enable the charge of $127.34 on your PayPal account. Because the order was made from an european internet address, we put an Exception Payment on transaction id #POS 03 4573 motivated by our Geographical Tracking System. THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT . If you made this transaction or if you just authorize this payment, please ignore or remove this email message. The transaction will be shown on your monthly statement as "Live Strip Chat Camera Sexy Girls". If you didn't make this payment and would like to decline the $127.34 billing to your card, please follow the link below to cancel the payment : Cancel this payment <http://www.eurons.org/Media/comedy/Jirekhurshani/bb.jpg/> ( transaction id #POS 03 4573)
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Niiiiice. Porn payment you only need to respond to if you DON'T WANT TO PAY. Brrrrr. Do they do gender targeting for this thing?
Clicking the link got me here: (note the language drop down selection...):
Clearly targeted to US dimwits like myself. I don't speak "Espaol" or "??(??)", so I rambled around in the source code for a bit before Firefox threw me a warning window.
It makes me love sites like 419eater.com and their "scam artists get scammed trophy room".
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