Latest phishing: your "dean" emails (except it's their email at gmail dot com) asking for @Google play gift cards—and to scratch off pin and send a picture. Question: are such gift cards truly untraceable? Asking for someone who's emailing back and forth with the scammer atm.
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At first I thought it was automated, but no they are responding in real time! (Hi! If you're reading this. Sorry you're in a meeting and in urgent need of gift cards! I'll do my best to buy them all). I know gift cards are a way to launder but was wondering why Google?
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It's phishing/scam in real time so I'm just wondering how profitable/untraceable Google gift cards are. (Right now, "my dean" is trying to convince me not to drop them by in whatever meeting he's stuck at!) Also, fascinating, they wanted $700 worth. Less would've been easier, no?pic.twitter.com/ho3j4H7dNi
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So, weirdly, I'm finding that the auto-reply feature of even MS outlook is generating good enough responses to continue the conversation.
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LOL update, I meant to email my dean and Outlook autocompleted the spammers email since I had emailed back and forth with them hahaha. Yes, I accidentally sent it. I hope they send me back proper feedback on my plan!
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Replying to @zeynep
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I have actually met him, yes! We both did a TED talk at the same event and it was really fun to watch him do his thing. :-D
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