Social Engineering — 59 posts

We are looking for pricing for an upcoming project and would want to confirm your availability to submit a quote. A request for a quote that names no project, no product and no company, signed by a procurement specialist who names no employer, and sent from an address that runs to 276 characters, most of them the tracking code from a billing email's link, at a domain with a home-care service's name.

We couldn't process your ChatGPT subscription. Please settle the outstanding balance to keep your access active. The notice that says so is signed The OpenAI Team, but it comes from a webmaster address under a web host's temporary site name that no longer exists, names no account, no plan and no card, wears a logo that is not OpenAI's, and sends its payment button through a Google redirect that does not say where it leads.

I am a retired banker currently working as a consultant with established funding partners and financial institutions specializing in investment and project financing. A cold funding offer written to investors, borrowers and brokers at once: it names no bank, no partner, no institution, no firm and no figure, is signed with a name and nothing else, and came from a domain that its registrar has suspended.

We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. Five weeks after the copy analysed in August, the same storage-full template arrives again — word for word, subscription number included — with a new sender on a top-level domain that does not exist, a new numbered relay on a new Indonesian domain, a new Google Cloud Storage bucket, and the whole message turned into a single link.

I'm Dr Brown from the UK. Permit to inform you about to partner with us in supplying raw materials. Eleven days after the first draft, the same persona writes again: three sentences from a different free Gmail account, blind-copied with the To line left empty, under a subject of two letters, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

I'm Dr. Brown from the UK. I have a discuss with you about business supply of materials to our company for production. Three sentences from a free Gmail address that shares nothing with the name it displays, blind-copied with the To line left empty, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

A top VIP in one of the African Countries is in dire need of an entrepreneur or fund manager that can confidently receive and manage the sum of US$5.2 Billion. Written as a reply, sent from a Gmail address that misspells its own sender's surname, and offering a nameless fortune to whoever reads a company mailbox, on two conditions: that they own a company, and that the company has a bank account for the money to go into.

My name is Ms. Helen Rudoff, secretary to (Coalfax Holding Ltd London UK) a private investor and a big time financial service provider. A cold loan offer sent under Investing.com's address for a London company that the UK companies register does not list, promising $10 Billion and above in the subject and one billion dollars in the body, and asking for only one thing: your WhatsApp number.

We have paused all upload and sync activities for your account. New data is not being saved. A storage-full alert that never names its provider, sent twice under two different stories — URGENT Renewal attempt failed from Billing Support, and Your account has been disabled from Payment System — from two unrelated business domains, with both of its links parked in a stranger's Google Cloud Storage bucket, and an unsubscribe link that hands you to a three-month-old domain asking you to type in your email address.

Please find the attached document for your attention and consideration. Kindly provide the requested quotation at your earliest convenience. Five polite sentences, a one-word subject and no attachment: a quotation request that names no product, no company and no person, sent from a Gmail account to itself with the recipient blind-copied.