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How do he know these emails are from scammers? Some of these seem like legimate offers at the first glance. Please don't downvote if this is a stupid question f
by tomaszs 6y ago
How do he know these emails are from scammers? Some of these seem like legimate offers at the first glance. Please don't downvote if this is a stupid question for you. I'd really like to know how to recognize a scam email in these situations as a browser extension dev.
- mads 6y agoI believe the "scammer" parts comes from them wanting to leech data off the users of the given extensions. They are upfront about their intentions, I think, so scammer is maybe not the appropriate term. "Scummer" maybe.
- tomaszs 6y agoIt seems like it is a series of emails from one sender. The first email is about sharing users IPs. What can such scammer do with user IP?
- drewmol 6y agoThey want to leech bandwidth off the userbase which become 'bots', to resell as a distributed proxy/botnet service from my understanding at least.
- Anthony-G 6y agoI agree with calling them “scummers” but “scammers” is also apt as they intend to scam the user of the extension - not necessarily the developer. Reading those emails brought to mind Bill Hicks' famous rant about “Satan's little helpers”: https://vimeo.com/36651896 https://vimeo.com/36651896
- ajayyy 6y agoI just added another email I got that I forgot about. In that one, they it looks like they steal the user's request headers. Their website also disappeared a month after their email.