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The problem here is monopoly, or mono culture. The whole world is, basically, using one email client. The lack of diversity means a well written scam like this
by zbuf 10y ago
The problem here is monopoly, or mono culture.
The whole world is, basically, using one email client. The lack of diversity means a well written scam like this spreads easily.
I can say for certain I'd never fall for this scam -- because it looks like crap in Pine. I know I'm special, but the same applies to Thunderbird, or whatever.
There's probably a parallel to biology here. Let's get diversity back in our internet culture and with it resistance; scams like this will be harder to convince and much less likely to spread. Hopefully removing some of the incentive, too.
- twostoned 10y agoI have been reading the comments wondering if this was a specific GMail webmail thing. I'm guessing that using IMAP or POP3 through an email client will make this harder? I'm by no means without risk but I rarely use the GMail web-client so wasn't sure exactly what the scam was