[extropy-chat] codes in scam letters

Dirk Bruere dirk.bruere at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 17:27:09 UTC 2005


On 9/25/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> After all this time, I am *still* getting scam letters,
> the ones that go something like: Greetings sir or madam,
> I have heard from numerous sources that you are an honest
> man or woman, so please give me your bank account number
> and name, that I may give you 38 billion dollars stolen
> from nygerian communist insurgents, etc.
>
> (I actually got one that misspelled the country it was
> from. {8^D )
>
> Of course, no one old enough to actually have a bank
> account is falling for those gags anymore, but it
> occurred to me that they would be the perfect vehicle
> for broadcasting coded messages to sleeper cells or other
> criminal gangs. No one actually reads very far past
> any email that starts with the word "greetings" so
> this might be just the thing. They could even hide
> a message in misspelled words, so that a copy-
> paste into microsloth word would underline in red
> squigglies the actual message.
>
> Harvey and other security wonks, has this been done?
>
>
Maybe where it links to a .jpg
Steganography

Otherwise it would be a one time pad kind of thing.

Dirk
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