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A Scammer Sent Me His Source Code? A Cautionary Tale of the Dangers of Vibe Coding

By Ken Buckler on Jan 27, 2026 10:10:03 AM

Late last night, Mr. William Chalmers from Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom sent me quite an unusual email. With the subject “Mutual Investment,” I absolutely expected yet another boring investment scam email which would promptly go into the spam bin. However, upon opening this email I was pleasantly surprised to see that this scammer had not sent me an “investment opportunity” (read that as investment scam) but accidentally emailed me his source code. Oops. I won’t include the full code here, but I will include some interesting snippets.

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