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This Phishing email... What is the IP? (europe.pub)
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[–] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

And it hooks tech illiterate people, avoiding people who know something's wrong. The perfect target.