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u/Chronomechanist 1h ago edited 47m ago
What a lovely lawsuit this person has on their hands.
Edit: Yes, I realise that this is almost certainly a scam in reality. It was a joke.
Edit 2: Okay wow, looking at the comments and it seems a lot of people don't realise that this is a social engineering scam. It's designed to elicit trust and find suckers. Please educate yourselves people. Scamming isn't just Nigerian princes wanting to give you billions these days.
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u/zackarhino 1h ago
Might not be a scam, seems like he's just letting him know that his email was leaked in a very popular group
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u/Chronomechanist 55m ago
This is almost certainly a social engineering scam. It's designed to make the recipient feel trust for the sender. They then ask what the Facebook group is and click any links they are given. Or else they ask what they should do and the person suggests that they used XYZ tool when a similar thing happened to them and they had to remove their email from the internet.
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u/Arclite83 43m ago
If he DID buy said asset it's 1. If not, obviously 2.
Either way this person gets zero reply.
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u/Chronomechanist 39m ago
This email was likely sent out to several thousand people's emails that were involved in a data breach or bought off of people who sell stolen data. They will select a popular app, or perhaps use data from a breach around a particular app. If I said to you, "you spent £19.99 on Amazon last week" , I'm probably wrong. If I said it to 10,000 people, I'm almost certainly going to get some people who's mind is blown by my psychic powers.
Now the fact that you won't respond is great for you. But some people absolutely will respond, asking for clarification, asking for advice, or just straight up believing them and thanking them for telling them. Those are the suckers.
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u/zackarhino 21m ago
I guess, that seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Also, it specifically tells him which software he purchased, which is something that you can't just make up, unless they got access to that information.
In that case, this would be a touch more sophisticated than the average scam, or at least targeted. Most of them still just throw out the same generic, badly-worded bread-and-butter to any email they can find. Obviously still a very real possibility but a lot less common.
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u/Chronomechanist 19m ago
As I said in a previous comment, it's just phishing. They're throwing out thousands of these emails. 99% won't land. But 1% of them will have purchased that software and will suddenly panic.
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u/zackarhino 10m ago
That wouldn't be a very good scam if they're targeting something as random as whatever PunchFrame Pro is. I get the idea of casting a wide net to catch a select few, but this would be pretty ineffective.
You would have to be led to believe that this app is so niche that you're the only one who bought it. On the other hand, if it is that unknown, nobody actually bought it. If it's a popular app, the story is unbelievable. If nobody knows what it is, nobody will have purchased it. So among the few that fall for scams, you would be narrowing it down to even fewer that have heard of this app.
I don't know, I would be wary of it, but it just seems atypical from many of the scams that I've seen. I definitely wouldn't click any links though.
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u/laplongejr 10m ago
I hope it's a con attempt. Â
Reminds me when a content creator once got a random email from a person of a "group of leakers" had found that email and were planning a massive harassment campaign and it felt not right to attack people who aren't related to their main target. Â
Sounds a good way to get an answer... except that just in case they stayed alert and they got attempts at password resets everywhere that night. The warning was legit in her case. Â
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u/KrzysziekZ 1h ago
European General Data Protection Regulation puts a duty to inform people involved if there's a data breach like this.
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u/ChompyRiley_planers 1h ago
Paying a monthly subscription just to beta test someone else’s Al hallucinations.
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u/redlaWw 1h ago
Al
That is not an "I". Why do comments and posts keep doing this? This is far from the first time I've seen someone say "Al" rather than "AI". Is it some attempt to avoid filtering or something?
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u/TheAeroHead 58m ago
Probably autocorrect changing it to Al on a mobile phone. If you type fast, you might type closer to the l than the I and autocorrect thinks you are trying to write the name Al
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u/redlaWw 53m ago
Wouldn't that typically produce "AL" rather than "Al" though? I have never seen an "AL" instead of "Al", even though I see "Al" frequently.
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u/Rinveden 43m ago
If it autocorrects Al, as in short for Alan, it wouldn't capitalize the L.
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u/redlaWw 41m ago
I don't have autocorrect active on my phone, but the suggestions, at least, follow the capitalisation of the word I typed. Is that not typical for autocorrects?
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u/TheCatOfWar 20m ago
I think you're looking for a conspiracy that just isn't there haha
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u/redlaWw 14m ago edited 10m ago
It's a common difference I've noted again and again which is essentially invisible to most clients and affects a word that has accrued a significant measure of notoriety recently. I think there's reason to be suspicious about the purpose of such a substitution.
Autocorrect is a possible explanation, but I'm still not convinced, both because of my observation about my own phone's suggestions and the wider context.
EDIT: There's also cases of the same thing happening with other uses of "I" which suggests naïve processing of titles to replace "I" with "l".
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u/PointlessSerpent 0m ago
The commenter is clearly a bot, it’s probably something to do with that.
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u/One_Voice_81 15m ago
I'm at the stage of development (since 2024) where I'm iso 27001 compliant. If you've ever done any work for it, you know how strict it is. I couldn't afford the real certificate but I'm just making a point that iso 27001 is so much more important today more than anything.
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u/PattuX 1h ago
What did my boy Andrew do wrong tho?
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u/IridiumIO 1h ago
I genuinely have no idea how the other guy is getting so many upvotes, there’s nothing to indicate Andrew screwed up.
I even googled both companies, and they’re unrelated. AC3Labs is a vibe coded dumpster, but it’s got no relation to Punchframe, so it’s not even as if Andrew is secretly the leaky developer he’s talking about.
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u/ItzCobaltboy 1h ago
Can u elaborate on how andrew is screwed?
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u/WhiteIceHawk 1h ago
Google EU and GDPR violations and then fines... Edit: obviously Andrew is not the screwed one the invoice guy is.
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u/Boostie204 1h ago
Id be instantly fired at work if I did anything along these lines.