Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Why do they want it this way?
Spam in today's email:
The CIA is watching you. Here's how to stop them.
First thought: As usual the scammer is presenting an obviously false premise. If you're dumb enough to think there's a way to stop CIA, you're also dumb enough to pay big money for the One Weird Trick. Good old sucker filter technique.
Second thought: Well, how do you ACTUALLY stop CIA monitoring? Die.
Third thought: No, wait. That won't work either. The CIA's fronts in the digital world (Facebook, Google, Twitter) have no provision to stop watching you when you die.
Pre-digital businesses take action when a customer or employee dies. They close the account or halt the lease or pay the beneficiaries or whatever is appropriate. When you die in the digital world, your FB page or your storefront keeps on running. This is recognized as a problem, but the CIA fronts are doing nothing to solve it.
Why do they want it this way? There's the question. Ordinary scammers sometimes make use of a dead man's SS number to create fake identities. Is that the purpose here? Doesn't sound right.
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Footnote: This spam comes from an outfit called Great American Daily, which was set up as part of faker Trump's scampaign. When faker Trump turned off his scampaign and became Hillary, Great American Daily instantly switched over to standard One Weird Trick scams. No mystery there. Competent scammers know when to trail behind a bigger fraud and when to unhitch.
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