# D'Ya honestly think I'm this stupid, phisher? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083 "2004-02-08T04:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/1 "2004-02-08T04:30:12Z")
> [@](#): > > DEAR YAH0O! Client\_, > > ``` > This` _email INF0RM You That _your _Yahoo_ ACCUNT (*myaddress*@yahoo.com) > > ``` > > w1ll be Blocked after\* 13 days` (@S _after_ autoomateed reegisttration) if Y0U w!ll > not _signup_ _on_ YAH0O! WHITE List (_to_ signup - cl1ck Here: http://_myaddress_.yahoo.com/) > > That is done beecause we` update now Yahoo _not_ autoomateed reegistered user\_ids. > > xIG0QQbtKQt1BLN ! @M |33+ haX0r ph34r //\3!!! 0h @||D B+// g!/3 //\3 ur 3//@|L @DDr3$$ + p@$$//0r|) thxbye I’m half tempted to click on the link provided, just to see how much personal info they want. Is this a test, to see just how dumb these emails can get before people won’t actually fall for them? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/2 "2004-02-08T04:33:07Z")
er, sorry about the auto-parsed fake link there. It doesn’t go anywhere. And the l33t speak, too. Seriously sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/3 "2004-02-08T09:19:41Z")
LMAO!!! That was really something special **Jenaroph**. You can’t buy that kind of comedy. That individual is hopefully not from a language where English is the dominant language. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/4 "2004-02-08T09:24:10Z")
> [@Sqube](#): > > That individual is hopefully not from a language where English is the dominant language. You and he would apparently have something in common, then. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chotii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Chotii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chotii)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/5 "2004-02-08T10:39:02Z")
I dunno. I got a phish from some yutz pretending to be [service@paypal.com](mailto:service@paypal.com), and the email was really believable. It’s a pity really that I have enough of a brain to know that [http://210.187.122.110/](http://210.187.122.110/) (which now no longer goes anywhere) is not a PayPal website. But god, the page originally hosted there asked for everything you can imagine - name, address, social security number, mother’s maiden name, even those 3 numbers on your credit card (CVI?). It was just laughable. And sad. Because some people will dutifully fill that out and not even question it, and then wonder how some thief got his hands on their credit card. ---
**Author:** ![APOC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@APOC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APOC)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/6 "2004-02-08T12:13:48Z")
Wow ! That’s one faaaaaaaancy phising expedition. Unlike [this](http://www.theregister.com/content/28/35266.html) ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-honestly-think-im-this-stupid-phisher/228083/7 "2004-02-08T12:39:08Z")
A valuable online resource for all inept phishers everywhere can be found at [Cockeyed](http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/accounts/update.html).