#Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal."
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Showing posts with label e-mail. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
This is what happens when you reply to spam email
#Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal."
Labels:
e-mail,
internet scams,
IT security,
spam
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Undo... undo! The Bank of England is right to ban autocomplete emails
“Staff at Britain’s central bank will now have to type out the name of every single person they send an email to, after a blunder led to confidential plans being forwarded to the Guardian.”
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Labels:
Bank of England,
e-mail,
EU,
operational risk,
risk,
technology,
UK
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