"I'll never understand either how they think they'll get away with it, or why they sometimes get responses"
Try living with someone who has early dementia :(
Father in law is slowly losing his capacity to work out fake/real etc.
He falls straight into those phishing traps. He's a kind fellow so he wants to help (and is time rich), so he spends ages replying to some total f****r about how he hopes they're doing well and here are his details, please do get in touch and he'll try and help..
I've got a delay rule set on his outbox so anything he sends is held. Then at the end of his emailing session, I quickly check the held mails and bin the 3 or 4 that were giving his life away.
Extremely stressful.
Millions of people with early dementia, those phishing b******s only need 10-20 successful hits from their spam and they'll get a decent lil payday.
It's truly disgusting practice.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
