All I did was take my phone out of my cycling jacket pocket.
How was I to know it would decide to call 999? Thanks a bunch, phone.
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More interest rate rises as oil companies slash production meaning petrol prices set to rocket rocket rocket.
I'm being sent about a dozen phishing emails every day at moment, I'm *report phishing* them all, filtering them all and deleting them all but they keep coming all with different email addresses. So annoying, one of them might get through. 
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Yeah, no use making filters or blocking emails as they all use seemingly different addresses, best you can do is report it so they deal with them at server level faster.
Google is still one of the best ones at dealing with spam, I think they block more than 99% of crap out there, but big spam campaigns sometimes get through temporarily.
Still annoying since scammers can come up with new ways to phish, so the sooner we all go with passwordless security like FIDO the better.
I like to keep my emails squeaky clean, thankfully not seen a single piece of spam in a very long time.
When I first registered with a porn site I used an alias email address that I could easily delete if I got a lot of spam. Turned out porn sites are the most respectful and never send you spam. I don't know where all those dick-enlarging sites get your address from but it's probably from an unsuspecting site you've used.
Best thing to do is and 5-6 digits to any email address that uses your name so it's not guessable and have a complex name for any alias email that you use for communicating to unknown sites and individuals.
Best thing to do is and 5-6 digits to any email address that uses your name so it's not guessable and have a complex name for any alias email that you use for communicating to unknown sites and individuals.
Yeah me too, but thankfully only to a hotmail account that isn't connected to anything important. Still irritating that these sub-humans try to dupe people.
And thus far they are so obviously a scam I just delete them. They're pretty feeble. Open an email supposedly from McAffee et al and hover over the links they contain and it's blindingly obvious it''s not from McAffee.
But I guess they do it 'cos a small percentage of folk will fall for it. This is the essence of computers and the internet.
Create a concept, expose it to the internet via some method I know nothing about and see what happens. Pretty low down the moral league table for sure.
They may be obvious to you and me, but some people who aren't very computer literate see a message on the screen that looks very vaguely like a Windows message box and they can't tell the difference between the OS and the internet.greenmark wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:53 pmYeah me too, but thankfully only to a hotmail account that isn't connected to anything important. Still irritating that these sub-humans try to dupe people.
And thus far they are so obviously a scam I just delete them. They're pretty feeble. Open an email supposedly from McAffee et al and hover over the links they contain and it's blindingly obvious it''s not from McAffee.
But I guess they do it 'cos a small percentage of folk will fall for it. This is the essence of computers and the internet.
Create a concept, expose it to the internet via some method I know nothing about and see what happens. Pretty low down the moral league table for sure.
Absolute scumbags!
You are right. I did some voluntary work introducing people to IT and the internet. They were mostly older than me and though they had computers they were so trusting it was staggering. Would you share your credit card details with your grandchildren, would you let a numpty like me have the administrator password on the basis of "it's ok I won't do any damage"? In a way it's a delight to discover so much trust. But I know if it hadn't been me in that scenario I could have taken them to the cleaners. C'est la vie!Derek27 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:59 pmThey may be obvious to you and me, but some people who aren't very computer literate see a message on the screen that looks very vaguely like a Windows message box and they can't tell the difference between the OS and the internet.greenmark wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:53 pmYeah me too, but thankfully only to a hotmail account that isn't connected to anything important. Still irritating that these sub-humans try to dupe people.
And thus far they are so obviously a scam I just delete them. They're pretty feeble. Open an email supposedly from McAffee et al and hover over the links they contain and it's blindingly obvious it''s not from McAffee.
But I guess they do it 'cos a small percentage of folk will fall for it. This is the essence of computers and the internet.
Create a concept, expose it to the internet via some method I know nothing about and see what happens. Pretty low down the moral league table for sure.
Absolute scumbags!
But it isn't connected to me in any meaningful way. The account is a relic from yonks ago. The scumbags are shouting down an empty well. Good luck to 'em and hope they lose their voices.
Oh thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for your magnificent generosity
Aldi, Lidl and Asda follow rivals in cutting milk prices
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65267367
2021 totalled £3.1 billion in 2021. Don't forget this is an industry with demand that will NEVER decay unless we all start snuffing it.
Talk of wafer thin margins is utter nonsense. Car makers for example can experience massive fluctuations in demand.
Where are you going to buy food to keep you alive 365 days a year. Answer: probably a supermarket.
I worked for ICL when they got the Lottery contract and all the talk was about small margins but guaranteed turnover.
Aldi, Lidl and Asda follow rivals in cutting milk prices
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65267367
2021 totalled £3.1 billion in 2021. Don't forget this is an industry with demand that will NEVER decay unless we all start snuffing it.
Talk of wafer thin margins is utter nonsense. Car makers for example can experience massive fluctuations in demand.
Where are you going to buy food to keep you alive 365 days a year. Answer: probably a supermarket.
I worked for ICL when they got the Lottery contract and all the talk was about small margins but guaranteed turnover.