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From: Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
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Subject: Re: Wow - Now Even COL.M - No Posts For DAYS
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:20:36 -0500
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 01:29:22 -0500, 166p1 <z24ba6.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/16/21 4:19 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:02:26 +0000, Eric Pozharski wrote:
>>>
>>> Yup, just today got another .xlsb (what .xlsb is anyway?) to check with
>>> Virustotal.  Not to be proud or something but this year I was first to
>>> upload twice.
>> Those in my opinion are not malicious but contain information how to
>> contact the scammer. Am interested. If you still have it, could you put
>> it into an encrypted ZIP file (that the mail ISP cannot check against a
>> database of scammy files), email it to me (address is valid) and tell me
>> the password you gave the ZIP file? I'll have a look what's inside then.
>
>   Is there a usenet group dedicated to e-mail scams and how
>   to spot them ? If not, there OUGHT to be.

There is a group for mail spam <news:news.admin.net-abuse.email>. Please
consider to set a follow-up there if you want to continue to discuss
email scam.

But consider the target audience of this scam does not read (or know
about) in the usenet. It doesn't make sense to post rules "how to not get
scammed" there.

It's better put on a web page that people would find it there. But the
target audience doesn't look up information (like a (even if fake) email
address) coming with this scam.

>   This has become a PLAGUE of late. How to spot the tricks
>   and, most importantly, how to keep Joe User from just
>   automatically clicking those links ........

I don't think that is possible, or ever will. It might work to an ad on
TV or Facebook to make people understand. But who's paying for the ad?
-- 
Andreas