susan
July 2, 2008, 3:28am
1
This one tickles me with its threat to delete all “edu” accounts.
Dear “EDU” Email Account Owner,
This message is from ““EDU”” messaging center to all “EDU”
email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data
base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all “EDU”
email accounts due to congestion just to create more space
for new accounts.
To prevent your account from being deleted you will have to
update it by providing the below informations so that we
will know that it’s a present used account.
We have been sending this notice to all our “EDU” email
account owners and this is the last notice/verification
exercise.
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW:
Email Username : … …
EMAIL Password : …
Date of Birth : …
Country or Territory : …
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within
Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Thank you for using “EDU” account!
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
EDU BETA.
you should just delete teh intarwebs and reload…
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.
Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member:
Dear Member it has come to our attention that your PayPal
biling information are out of date. This require you to
billing information as soon as possible. This billing update is
also a new PayPal security statement which goes according
to the established norms on our terms of service ( TOS ) to
redice the instance of fraud on our website.
Please update your records on or before June 14.2008. A
failure to update your records may result a suspention of your account.
Click here to update your account
You can also confirm by loggin into PayPal account at:
(bogus address deleted)
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Oh, and re: the June 14th date: the message was sent on June 28th. Schmuck.
I get that Paypal one all the time.
susan
July 3, 2008, 3:34am
5
Today my spam offers me two choices: Increase my salary, and increase the size of my penis. However will I choose?
Boy, it’s a good thing that there is that law that all phishers MUST misspell things.
Otherwise, how would we know?
Ca3799
July 3, 2008, 12:37pm
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.
*
Mine is from … China! This is really only of particular amusement when you read the scheme:
Dear aaa,
We are HangZhou FireTrust Technology Ltd., which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is called ManSan Investment(China) Co.,Ltd are applying to register " [my work’s name] " as their domain name and Internet keyword on JUN26th 2008. Because this involved your company name or trade marks so we inform you in no time. If you considered these domain names and internet keywords are important to you and there was necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon.
Kind regards,
Carlos.Fang
HangZhou FireTrust Technology Ltd.
Address: Unit2-602,Building4,Third Qianjiang Community,Hangzhou, China
Tel: +86-571-28927205 ext.804(Mon–Fri,9am to 6:30pm,GMT+8)
Fax: +86-571-28926277
Email: Carlos.Fang@FireTrust.net.cn
Web: www.FireTrust.net.cn www.FireTrust.org.cn
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.)
Carlos Fang? Now there’s a user name crying out to be used here!