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Fuck with the phishers

If you want some fun and have Perl installed, download my Perl script fuck_with_the_scammers.pl and run it. Some “phishers” sent me a fake PayPal message soliciting my email, PayPal password, credit card number, expiration date, CCV, and (get this) PIN number. Hard to believe anyone would be stupid enough to fall for it. Anyway, run this on your system and you’ll give them 1000 randomly-generated entries to sort through. It would be really useful if we could distribute this across multiple IPs. You’ll need my bigwordlist.txt as well, but that’s fun to have anyway.

Thu, 20 May 2004 14:40:42 -0500
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