1 hour ago · Tech · 0 comments

I received this email today (see the end of this posting for a full description of the email for the visually impaired): So, let’s dive into all the ways we know this is a scam. → The text of this email was obviously written by generative AI. I’m not going to get into a play-by-play analysis of what makes that obvious. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about obscenity: “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” → There is, however, one obvious sign that the sender of this email did not write it, and that’s the “{Your Name}” at the bottom. This is a clear sign that either the email was automatically generated by an AI agent which screwed up, or the email text came from a template written by someone else and whoever actually sent the email forgot to replace the placeholder text at the end when pasting the text into the email to me. D’oh! → While I wouldn’t say that legitimate businesses like what this one claims to be never use bizarre email addresses like…

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