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We have been made aware of "scary" emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI/DHS. While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastr
by Raed667 5y ago
We have been made aware of "scary" emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI/DHS. While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastructure that is owned by the FBI/DHS (the LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails *are* fake.
https://twitter.com/spamhaus/status/1459450061696417792 https://twitter.com/spamhaus/status/1459450061696417792
- stevebmark 5y agoI continue to see Twitter as an invaluable real time news source. It often seems to have more direct information on breaking topics than other mediums. I often discover news on Twitter well before seeing it on other platforms.
- camhart 5y agoLast summer Twitter alerted me to wild fire evacuations for my area (in Western Washington) hours before traditional channels reached me.
- systemvoltage 5y agoAgree, but also keeps feeding me extreme bias and straight up nonsense. Let’s not forget its destructive aspects as well.
- gzer0 5y agoYou can mitigate this, at least partially, if you go into your account settings and deselect “show me personalized content and ads”; this paired with ublock origin can do wonders.
- TheRealNGenius 5y agoWhy did they feel the need to emphasize are?
- TheRealNGenius 5y agoI'd like to think this is a valid question
- gryfft 5y agoI think this is a quirk of spoken English that's made its way onto the page as part of the "yes, but" construction. The latter part is emphasized to highlight the contrast to the first clause. Yes, these emails are coming from the FBI's infrastructure, but they are not legitimate.