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They're probably just playing the odds.. that if you're on the internet and can read their message, then chances are you've been watching a lot of porn. 
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There are about 7 billion people on the planet.
I have no idea how many of them are on the internet, but assume roughly 50% - that's 3.5 billion people.
Judging by what some people say[^], the proportion of dumb people on the internet is pretty high. But, for argument's sake, let's assume it's around 1%. That's 35 million dumb people.
If you can steal $1* from each of those people, most people would consider that a success.
* Unless it's a Zimbabwean dollar.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If dumb people fall for that how are they not already broke?
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How could they be broke when they've won the Spanish Lottery, and been given so much money for helping those nice people from Nigeria to move their millions of dollars out of the country? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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MehGerbil wrote: If dumb people fall for that how are they not already broke?
Because I have free money to send you of course! You'd never go broke with all this free money I'm just giving away. I just need you to put in some credentials here...
Jeremy Falcon
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If they're US-American the government gives it to them.
And remember, the average person's IQ is 100.
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Must be inflation in IQ--50 years ago, the average IQ was only 72.
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In my everyday life I get sometimes the impression there are only 10% intelligent People on this planet 
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And they are the ones scamming 
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10%? That high? It seems more like we're all at varying levels of un-intelligence
There are probably rare exceptions, but I can't think of any.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ah, the eternal optimist
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Dale Carnegie once said, "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.".
Someone else said, "You can fool some of the people some of the times. But, that's usually enough to make a living.".
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If you keep your money in your mattress and only have an empty bank account for receiving such funds; then you're safe.
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I'm halfway there, woo-hoo.. now all I need is a mattress full of money.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Wayne Rooney is a footballer, with a possibly negative IQ.
He earns gets paid £300,000 per week.
MehGerbil wrote: How much money can the people stupid enough to fall for this sort of thing have to steal?
Lots?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: gets paid £300,000 per week
Kinda wish I was so 'stupid'. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Ah, but he does devote a lot of his own time and money entertaining the elderly..
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I've always thought of negative IQ as someone so stupid that when they enter a room, the entire room becomes less intelligent. We've all met them!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If I received an email that said to hit a link, I'm not sure I could resist.
Do it. Do it now!
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Now if they really wanted to uploaded a virus only my system they should have send me a job offering... E.g. Open this word document to view the job details.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Seems legit.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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is anybody else concerned by how many 'green ticks' there are for that? Now I know 'we' on CP would never run anything on our computers, but we do all head tech support for the family right? They are not so wise!
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It just appeared on our radar 24 hours or less.
AFAIK, signature will get released any time from our AV labs as well.
It's also a polymorphic one (if I got this one right), that's why analysts performs more tests on this one.
Also, if one reads VirusTotal list, it can be seen that:
- two vendors name it Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.BCISU and second Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.CISU (good thing a letter differ between two different vendors)
- others name it Trojan/Generic or Malware Gen, which is usually another name for "we know is doing something bad but we don't really know what is"
- Symantec signed it with Suspicious.Cloud.5 which is documented from 2010, but the virus is first seen on 2014/08/14 (yesterday); I don't know what to think here
- Sophos name it AIJV[^] and also mention it as AviraTR/Agent.CISU.1 (CISU again !)
All in all, I'm not in an AV guy, but I know enough to read between the lines that this is
1. an 1-day item
2. drops on computer only if clicked and downloaded and executed (from Dropbox in the sample I have seen)
3. quite easy to detect and remove (registry key modification, relatively large size - 188 Kb)
* * *
That does not mean it is something the regular user can ignore.
But they do.
No matter how many times I tell my father
"if someone you don't know and looks suspicious pops up at the door, do you let him in? it's the same with programs; you don't know what is, you don't trust who did it or why pops, close it and never look back"
he keeps clicking on Yes on anything it moves.
I promised myself than one day I will do a MessageBox with something like
"Is your mom a very nasy slut?"
I bet that at least 75% of the users will click on yes.
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