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Persistent unsolicited business loan spam

πŸ’Έ moneysocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A small business owner reports receiving a high volume of persistent, unsolicited business loan offers via email that bypass spam filters by using rotating domains and obfuscated links, making it difficult to identify the specific nature of the potential scam.

Who's affected: A small business owner with a public-facing email address.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A browser-based email plugin that analyzes sender domain reputation and flags suspicious loan-offer patterns in real-time.
  2. A community-driven database where small business owners can report and verify the legitimacy of specific loan solicitation domains.
  3. A policy initiative to require stricter verification for business-to-business email marketing to prevent domain spoofing and obfuscation.
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Real voices

β€œThese are the offers for business financing loans that typically like this... These come in from every direction with different companies, different amounts on offer, and from different people . They all have a button for to get funding today that points to an obfuscated web address”

Source: Stack Exchange (money) Β· CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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