Especially amusing phishing scheme

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

This one tickles me with its threat to delete all “edu” accounts.

2

you should just delete teh intarwebs and reload…

3

Heh.

I get a lot of fake Paypal notices, but this one is so pathetic that if anyone actually falls for it, they almost deserve what they get.

Exactly as received, minus the HTML coding.

Oh, and re: the June 14th date: the message was sent on June 28th. Schmuck.

4

I get that Paypal one all the time.

5

Today my spam offers me two choices: Increase my salary, and increase the size of my penis. However will I choose?

6

Boy, it’s a good thing that there is that law that all phishers MUST misspell things.

Otherwise, how would we know?

7

Weel, mine’s from Scotland!

*Dear Customer,

We will like to inform you that our technical department carried out a planned software upgrade. At the completion of this upgrade, we encountered difficulties in updating some accounts which therefore require immediate update in order to function normal. Temporary restriction is therefore been placed on such accounts until they are updated.
We earnestly ask you to follow the link bellow to effect the updating process of confirmation on customers data.

To get started, please Click Here .
This instruction has been sent to all bank customers and is obligatory to follow.
Thank you,

The Royal Bank of Scotland©
Customers Support Service.
*

8

Mine is from … China! This is really only of particular amusement when you read the scheme:

Phishing scam with bonus Chinglish!

Seriously – da hell? I don’t even know where to begin here. (it should be noted that the company I work for has “Canada” in its name, which is what makes it so unbelievable.)

9

Carlos Fang? Now there’s a user name crying out to be used here!