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I present today's *Wow! That's Bad!" Spam for your Sunday enjoyment. Go on, tell me what's not to believe:
From: Gmail Team <raffaellanek@alice.it>
To: [redacted, but it's me]
Subject: Dear Account Owner,
Dear Account Owner,
It has come to our notice that your email has not passed the new verification/Update process that we are presently working on. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all Old Gmail email account to create more space for new accounts..
To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it so that we will know that it's a present used account. To complete your account re-confirmation, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your account details as requested below.
<hr />
Your Email User-name:
Your EMAIL Password:
Your Date of Birth:
Your Country or Territory:
**************************************IMPORTANT:
This updating is compulsory as a result of our recent server changes. If you fail to update your email address you will soon be unable to receive/send mails.Also your email will not be equipped with the latest anti-virus system in our new servers.
This will make your email and PC vulnerable to virus attacks from the internet.
****HOW TO UPDATE:
To update simply reply the above to upgrading admin as appropriate. Failure to do so immediately will lead to SUSPENSION OF YOUR ACCOUNT.
Thanks for your co-operation,
The Gmail Team.
Sure Raffael, here are my credentials as I'm sure you work for Google.
veni bibi saltavi
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It must be legit, he hasn't asked for your bank details...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The sad point is... how many people will actually answer that email?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Have you checked if there was a Reply-To header?
If so, the poor Raffael who's address is used here will not get the answer.
If not, is's really bad. Especially when using a free email provider located in the EC where chances are good to be identified.
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No, the reply to is accinf02030@yahoo.co.jp should anyone feel like writing to them.
veni bibi saltavi
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Well, if people fall for the scam where you supposedly owe money to the IRS and they want to be paid in iTunes gift cards...
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Why don't the hackers turn their botnets into tools for flooding those email addresses with so much spam that the idiots give up ever wading through them?
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Your Email User-name: FatFinger@TypoGod.com
Your EMAIL Password: I-Type-H-When-I-Should-Type-B-
Your Date of Birth: Cheshvan 5, 5777
Your Country or Territory: Kaechon[^]
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Let's say I'm crazy enough to install Windows Server 2016 to host an app I want to keep going in the cloud 24/7. There's no way to stop this thing from magically rebooting willy nilly outside of setting the normal business hours or whatnot... but say when not in that timeframe, Windows will up and just restart la la la without a care to the wind for a *server* app?
Did I miss the memo where MS started smoking crack?
Jeremy Falcon
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Possibly MS has decided to cede the server market to Linux.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Did I miss the memo where MS started smoking crack? Have you been on a secret mission to Mars? Mickeysoft has slowly been losing its grasp on reality over the last ten years.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well, I mean I knew it was doing that for the desktop app on Win10, but the server...
Anyway, Google says I can just disable the Windows Update service to stop it, so we'll see.
Jeremy Falcon
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I think if you dig deep enough into some of the 'hidden' settings (taskscheduler/updateorchestrator) you might find a way to stop forced restarts. Sorry, it's Saturday and that's all I can offer. I am experimenting with the equivalent settings in WinTen and am waiting for evidence that the hack/setting actually works. Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Anyway, Google says I can just disable the Windows Update service to stop it, so we'll see. *crosses fingers*
Jeremy Falcon
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You just need to set a group policy. Or two actually.
If you still feel unsafe you can of course also disable the Windows Update Service.
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Good. I mean I'm all for updates, but randomly restarting a server is bad juju.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not having a server to check at the moment, but a quick googling found it for me: Prevent Windows Server 2012 from forcing a reboot after updates - Server Fault[^]
Chaoix wrote: Press Windows Key+R to open the run prompt.
Type "gpedit.msc" and press enter.
In the "Local Group Policy Editor", navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.
Enable the "Configure Automatic Updates" policy and set it to "2".
Enable the "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations" policy.
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I just disabled the service. Living on the edge.
Jeremy Falcon
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Just don't forget to run it every now and then, there sadly is a reason they made such a stupid move.
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This is why I am really thinking, Linux is a better way to go than Windows OS, for server apps.
At this point, what with the .NET Core, Mono C#, etc., I shouldn't have any problems running a C# web server on Linux. I'll have to give that a try actually.
[edit]And as for the database, I really like PostgreSQL, and I think there's Linq2SQL support for that (I don't use EF!), though not sure. And since I'm not tied in with IIS on any of my web apps, I don't have to worry about that! [/edit]
Marc
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I've always been a *Nix fan since I was a teenager, it's just this app requires Windows or else I wouldn't bother with it.
Jeremy Falcon
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I know 'Topshelf' and I'm pretty sure 'Quartz.Net' also runs on Mono, so Linux is a serious option for services in C#
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Npgsql[^]
PostgreSQL data provider for .NET.
It's awesome.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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