Why spam emails still promise imaginary fortunes

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

Receiving daily emails from imaginary royalty offering you millions of nonexistent dollars. The oldest trick on the digital frontier that somehow still works.

From the Stacky collection1 min read

Why spam emails still promise imaginary fortunes — STACKY / Technology

Topics in this factspamemail scamscams

One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Technology →

ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →

Technology

Gary Thuerk sent the very first commercial spam email in 1978 to a mere four hundred users on the ARPANET, inadvertently opening the floodgates to a relentless digital plague…

Gary Thuerk sent the very first commercial spam email in 1978 to a mere four hundred users on the ARPANET, inadvertently opening the floodgates to a…

Discover more

Technology

Why do Nigerian Prince scams and fake phishing emails intentionally include obvious spelling mistakes?

Discover more

Technology

How much clean audio of your voice does modern AI actually need to successfully clone it for a deepfake scam?

Discover more

Technology

Hormel Foods' canned mystery meat did not actually inspire the use of the word spam to describe unwanted junk email, rather it was a specific Monty Python sketch from 1970.

Hormel Foods' canned mystery meat did not actually inspire the use of the word spam to describe unwanted junk email, rather it was a specific Monty Python…

Discover more

Technology

Hard drive manufacturers deliberately use the decimal system where one kilobyte equals exactly 1000 bytes to advertise larger capacities, even though computers read data in binary where a kilobyte is 1024 bytes.

Hard drive manufacturers deliberately use the decimal system where one kilobyte equals exactly 1000 bytes to advertise larger capacities, even though…

Discover more

Technology

Nigerian prince scams, originally known as 419 scams after the section of the Nigerian penal code they violate, actually predate the internet by centuries and were originally called the Spanish Prisoner scam.

Nigerian prince scams, originally known as 419 scams after the section of the Nigerian penal code they violate, actually predate the internet by centuries and…

Discover more

Why spam emails still promise imaginary fortunes

A bigger world.One discoveryat a time.

Keep exploring

Gary Thuerk sent the very first commercial spam email in 1978 to a mere four hundred users on the ARPANET, inadvertently opening the floodgates to a relentless digital plague…

Why do Nigerian Prince scams and fake phishing emails intentionally include obvious spelling mistakes?

How much clean audio of your voice does modern AI actually need to successfully clone it for a deepfake scam?

Hormel Foods' canned mystery meat did not actually inspire the use of the word spam to describe unwanted junk email, rather it was a specific Monty Python sketch from 1970.

Hard drive manufacturers deliberately use the decimal system where one kilobyte equals exactly 1000 bytes to advertise larger capacities, even though computers read data in binary where a kilobyte is 1024 bytes.

Nigerian prince scams, originally known as 419 scams after the section of the Nigerian penal code they violate, actually predate the internet by centuries and were originally called the Spanish Prisoner scam.

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.