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Didn't we have one for nccservice.net a few weeks ago?
Addendum 2023-08-04 06:58: Here: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/time-keeps-on-slipping
On 14 July, so three weeks ago.
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Woosh!
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I once read that the scammers deliberately make some mistakes in their messages/emails/FAX so they weed out the smart people of responding. Otherwise the scammers would face a human DDOS attack of replies which they could not handle. Is this true, false or file_not_found?
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It's not just the same page, but the exact same screenshot, just cropped.
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Do you guys even read the comments above the pictures? The Error'd is the fact that submitter from 3 weeks ago attempted to redact the company name everywhere, but forgot about the URL.
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...The submission is calling out thedailywtf for having redacted the tab title but not the address bar.
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They try to put as many mistakes and make it as obvious as possible that it is a scam. The reason is they don't want people that will figure out part way through that it is a scam. If they get halfway through the manual work with getting nothing when the person finally realizes, that is time/money wasted. If they put as many red flags as possible in there and you don't catch any of them, you are not likely to ever realize it is a scam. The errors and obvious red flags are not about keeping a flood of people from contacting them, but about filtering to only the most likely to be able to steal from.
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Date | Fear
No, not ominous at all.
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TRWTF is censoring the tab title and company name but not the URL for the nccservice.net one. I Also, when I went there to see it live, I forgot to type the .html at the end and it gave me a 300 Multiple Choices response, linking me to about.html and about.swf. I'm no web server configuration guru, but I'm pretty sure this isn't what the intended, and it probably has some security implications somewhere on the site.
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I feel like anyone responding to a Nigerian scam in 2023 is either poking the scammer to waste their time, or really really clueless about it. At that point, it's got to be binary.
I thought the scammers had moved on and...
Oh crap sorry got to reply to that urgent sms from Amazon, otherwise they will charge me for that expensive Mac book pro I did not order.
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AGree about either poking the scammer or cluless. But don't forget that every day more previously capable savvy people get elderly and senile. And of course, as PT Barnum may have said, "there's a sucker born every minute". Which also means one gets their first job, or finally has the scratch to "invest" in something every day too.
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Ah, but this York is the best one, the one that gave us Peppermint Patties! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Peppermint_Pattie
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The other WTF in that nccservice website is the background image. It's a True Color 800x600 bitmap image of size 1.44 megabytes, barely fitting in a 3½" floppy disk. It contains 491 shades of white. It could have been encoded as a GIF (reducing to a palette of 256 colors, no noticeable difference) for just 147KB, 10% of the original size. Or encoded as a JPG file (98% quality jpeg is already smaller than that, and 88% quality is just 30KB). Or just replaced by a plain background color, as most people wouldn't notice or care about the near-invisible texture.
I clearly noticed it was a BMP because of the progressive loading from the bottom to the top (most other formats load from top to bottom).
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It occurred to me after the submission that I might have been maligning the Daily WTF because it could have been the original submitter who did the redaction.
I also should have cropped it less tightly and left some of this website's real estate round the edges to make it obvious that I was submitting the submission not the original web page.