They just wanted to make doubly sure that whoever they are phishing is an idiot before they proceed further.
Spain has better food, better beaches, hotter women, better fiesta, better weather, better lifestyle, better IP’s.
Deal with it.
I think I see why the login attempt was unsuccessful!
I was surprised to find that this doesn’t work at all.
For instance,
300is considered a valid IP by e.g. Firefox, typing300/into Firefox will navigate tohttp://0.0.1.44/. I was expecting this to be interpreted as just Σ 256ⁿ × dₙ mod 256⁴. But it isn’t, Firefox won’t accept this (it performs a web search instead). Neither willcurl(which tries to look up a domain by this name).This is just an IPv5, they’re quite rare in the wild
It’s not often you see IPv5
It’s good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:
IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each. For the visual representation, those grouping are used. The hextets might be written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.It’s long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!
New address space unlocked
In addition to what others have already posted, I suspect that this might be an attempt to evade spam/phishing filters that are looking for an IP address with a specific regular expression. Having a fake IP address that doesn’t match the traditional
^((25\[0-5]|(2\[0-4]|1\d|\[1-9]|)\d)\\.?\b){4}$format might let this message slip through.And it hooks tech illiterate people, avoiding people who know something’s wrong. The perfect target.
86.75.30.9
That cancer support line should buy this one also
Please, do not share the button. It’s gross.
Jesus Christ, that’s Jason Bourne’s IP address!
Probably outer space
Oh yeah, that’s the new hexadecimal IPV8
Hello, I am apparently an idiot. What is wrong with that IP address that people can tell it’s an immediate phishing scam?
IP addresses can’t have segment numbers going over 255.
Ahhhh. Thank you. Now the Ipv over 4 jokes make sense.
Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.
I think you mean IPV0x08
I try to avoid “this” style comments, but I genuinely don’t know how else to respond to this one. It was hilarious. I literally (by which I actually mean “literally”) laughed out loud.
wait what? I feel like I am left behind in the tech. I only know about ipv4 and ipv6 😭😭😭
They’re making a joke. The numbers in the IP are way too high for v4, but the format isn’t v6, so it’s a “new range” of v8.
Where’s IPv7?
at 192.512.512.10.0/42.
In the drawer right next to IPv5
IPv5.
IPv4 was easy to remember. IPv6 made it very hard. This implies that IPv8 has to be base64 encoded.
Sorry, that’s my IP. I was trying something
(theft)
I often assume this kind of thing is part of an effort to filter for idiots
If you know that’s an invalid IP address, you’re probably less likely to fall for the scam after the scammer has put the setup work in. So if they filter you out before a scammer has to spend any actual effort on you, that means more time they can spend scamming people who might be more likely to fall for it
That’s why these things often have egregious spelling errors and other seemingly obvious red flags
It’s also why there’s usually bad spelling or grammar in those e-mails as well
Just because I know what a valid IP is doesn’t mean I’m not an idiot 😎
That’s not the probability they are looking for.
Let’s see you write a regex for one, then we’ll decide.
lemme try
(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[1-9]?[0-9])(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[1-9]?[0-9])){3}tbh i have seen the stackoverflow solutions so i kinda know what i needed to do
this is entirely typed out from brain tho
Why would anyone want to do that when there are dozens on stackoverflow?
I do believe that is confirmed canon.
I remember reading about this many years ago as an explanation for why there were so many banner ads that looked like they were created in MS paint.
Movies and TV shows actually do it this way to prevent actual machines getting group hugged.
Like in that one X-Files episode, where the Lone Gunmen hack into an invalid IP.
I never thought of it like that before. I wonder how common this intent actually is…
It’s possible in general, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on specifically here; not many people read IP addresses in such detail to notice such things at first glance.
It’s exactly what is happening, they’re filtering out people who know what an IP address is and can contain so that they get fewer time wasters.
The point schnurrito was making is that even if you know what an IP address is and what are valid or invalid IP addresses, a lot of people won’t read the IP address. They’ll just see numbers and skim over them. Even if you’re keeping eyes peeled for scams, most people don’t have their IP address memorised off the top of their heads so they wouldn’t be looking to check if the IP address looks right or not.
And the point I’m making is that they’re doing it to filter out people who know and pay attention. Real simple stuff.
Then I don’t think that would be the most effective way because most people aren’t paying that much attention, independently of knowledge. What would tip me off to it being a scam would be other parts of the email.
