Timeline for Are non-English speakers better protected from (international) phishing?
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 9:13 | comment | added | JimmyB | I'm afraid that non-native speakers of any language are more likely to be tricked by badly translated mails. An expat with maybe only a year of shallow experience with the local language may not really notice the bad quality. | |
| S Oct 19, 2016 at 21:32 | history | suggested | psmears | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | pguetschow | @FedericoPoloni Jup, but in my PoV this would be kind of a passive protection. I was just curious, how others think about it | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 7:27 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Isn't this a bit like asking "are Linux users better protected from viruses"? It doesn't matter whether this is technically true or not: both virus writers and phishers typically go for the largest market, because there are more fish in that barrel. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 6:34 | history | edited | pguetschow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 2:43 | comment | added | MichaelS | Enormous amounts of phishing spam targeted at English readers is also horribly translated. Of all the phishing attempts related to Battle.net impersonation (I've gotten a few dozen of them over the last ten years), exactly one was remotely good English. It was actually so noteworthy that I made a screenshot and wrote a thread in my guild forum about the first phishing attempt to actually use good English. (It was a good simulacrum of Blizzard emails. They even copied an official tip not to trust emails soliciting personal information. And people probably still fell for it.) | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 23:05 | answer | added | Erik | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 19:46 | history | edited | pguetschow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 12:29 | answer | added | mootmoot | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 12:13 | vote | accept | pguetschow | ||
| Oct 18, 2016 at 12:12 | comment | added | pguetschow | @wb9688 Then you're lucky. I use my "professional/personal" address also for about 5 years and also didn't encounter (except a few) spam mails. But as I wrote, this is my mail I use for free stuff, trials, etc where the chances are higher your mail finds a way into some chinese spam list for cheap viagra. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 12:10 | comment | added | wb9688 | I've had the same email address for 7 years, but I've never got any spam… | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 11:48 | comment | added | tmh | Regarding the "horribly translated" part, this is most likely intended. See for example: quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 10:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/788332968699949056 | ||
| S Oct 18, 2016 at 9:48 | history | suggested | kaidentity | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 9:15 | answer | added | AdHominem | timeline score: 76 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 9:15 | answer | added | KanekiDev | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 9:08 | history | edited | pguetschow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 9:07 | comment | added | Marcel | This would make an interesting subject for a study thesis. I personally would agree to some degree, but I feel this advantage is eroding as phising becomes more widespread and better "implemented". | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 9:02 | history | asked | pguetschow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |