The university allows URLs as a "person name", so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i'm getting bombarded by "legit" emails with a spam url as in "hi SPAM_URL"
This spammer told an university that i agree to get email communications
32 Comments
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 2y
I think this is a tactic scammers use to make you miss some other important email like online purchases. I'd comb through those emails carefully if I were you.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 2y
If you're getting flooded with emails from legitimate sites asking for email address confirmation or password resets, you may be getting hit with a "registration bomb."
If you have something compromised, they'll do this to try and hide the email you should actually be worried about in a flood of email that isn't stopped by the spam filters because they're from legitimate sources.
I recently woke up to thousands of emails about newsletter registrations, password reset requests, free trial notices, etc. Amongst the deluge of unwanted email was a notification about a new user being added to my PayPal account. If I hadn't read through the emails I would have lost a lot of money.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website · 42 pts · 2y
Might be worth letting the uni know. Surely they'll want to fix the site!
Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 42 pts · 2y
Now i'm getting tons of "Dear SPAM_URL, thanks for confirming your attendance at the conference"...
Hupf@feddit.de · 31 pts · 2y
Little Bobby Tables at it again
Kuvwert@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 2y
Sanitize thine inputs ye old form builders...
thorbot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Ah yes, little Bobby tables, we call him
citrusface@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Hold on, English is dumb as fuck, is "an university" correct?
nawa@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
I would guess this person pronounces it like "ooniversity" in which case it's correct, it depends on if there's a vowel or consonant sound, not what letter it is. But I never heard it pronounced that way, for me it's always been "youniversity" and in that case it's incorrect.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
It's a university. Don't ask me why.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
Because an precedes a word that starts with a vowel sound, not just because they start with a vowel letter
squid_slime@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
No although it should be, an is used in place of proceeding a vowel
The correct usage is "a university" because the pronunciation of "university" begins with a consonant sound.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
Proceeding a vowel sound. The actual spelling is irrelevant.
He was an honest man, an hourly worker, and an heir to the throne. He rode a unicorn to a university, and oddly he was a eunuch.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Perfectly explains why so many officials say "today is an historic event"
Not. Lol fuck these rules.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
"an historic" only works in some accents. British, for example, pronounces it as "istoric".
Edit: un-mis-spelling
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Weird... I pronounce it historic. Tomato tomato I guess.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Lol. I guess my auto correct fixed it. Oops. I'll edit
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Thank you I did not know this but this makes perfect sense based on my intuition
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
OP is Italian. The u in the Italian word for university, universitá, is said with a vowel 'ooh' sound instead of a consonant 'you' sound. I'd wager they remember their English 'a vs an' rule phonetically and, with the words being so similar between languages, mixed the pronunciation up. I'm a native English speaker and that's 100% how I fuck up my Italian.
ani@endlesstalk.org · 2 pts · 2y
In Latin langs, y sounds like i (e sound), so that's probably where the confusion comes from.
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
It's debatable, technically it does start with a vowel so "an" should be used, but since it starts with a Y consonant sound, using "a" sounds a lot better and may also be considered correct/better.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
Not really debatable, that's the actual rule. An before words that start with a vowel sound.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · -13 pts · 2y
'An' is used before any vowel. An opposite, an electrician, an icehouse, an apple.
max@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y
Yes, but no. Your rule is correct, but the application of it isn’t. “An” is used for vowel sounds.
University (you-knee-ver-city), UFO (you-eff-ooh) use “a”, while honorable (on-oohr-a-bul) uses “an”.
Confusing language for sure.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y
They also listed themselves as a parent, so I guess you'd better say hi to your new daddy @Moonrise2473@feddit.it or should I call you by your legal name GET BITCOIN URGENTLY BITLY/FHQWHGADS
thorbot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I said come, on, fhqwgads, I said come on fhqwgads! Everybody to the limit everybody to the limit everybody come on fhqwgads
loboaureo@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
I think you should blurr your phone too
Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 28 pts · 2y
luckily it's a random number that the spambot inserted in the form
Denvil@lemmy.one · 8 pts · 2y
Possibly not actually his phone, could just be the scam's phone
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I'm totally signing him up for the all my favorite shelters... they send cat and dog photos to your phone.
medgremlin@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y
That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.
fraksken@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y
It's annoying. Putup a filter moving mail to spam if "hi https" is found in body.
also contact admins. This is some bad input validation :)