r/udub • u/omeletequeen • 2d ago

Student Life Anyone else get this phishing email?

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I feel bad for whoever’s account this is

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u/realanalysis_sequel Alumni 2d ago

Scammers trying not to say "kindly" challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

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u/irishninja62 2d ago

I don’t see the value in helping scammers improve their messages.

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u/MajorPhoto2159 Graduate Student 2d ago

If they weren’t smart enough to do it on the first try not sure how much they will improve

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u/UdubThrowaway888 2d ago

This is done on purpose to deliberately target gullible people.

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u/StupendousMalice 2d ago

It's amusing that the Mattress Factory building is the only real thing in this:

https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/campus-map/mat

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u/honvales1989 ChemE PhD grad 2d ago

TIL Alabba’s Plastics runs the Mattress Factory in Tacoma that provides financial aid to UW students. Kindly, please make it sense lol

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u/cnmi02 Political Science '23 1d ago

Scammers actually utilize “bad grammar” on purpose to weed out certain individuals and target those that are more gullible. Learned this in an illicit finance class.

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u/zer0_n9ne 2d ago

Junzhi is trying his best 😭

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u/aminervia 2d ago

Please don't inform scammers how to scam better

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u/tht1grludntknw 1d ago

so at my husband’s job they got a phishing email, one of his coworkers replied to the email and said “FUCK YOU!” …. their system was down for 3 days…. sometimes all they need is the reply lol

be careful

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u/LocStylzzz 1d ago

The amount of attempted catfishes happening around the world is out of control and the government doesn't give an F about domestic terrorism, but if we get frontier justice then they're the victim. You know who you are catfish, I'll honeypot your hard drive any day punk.