# Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler just sent me an email **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082 "2004-10-25T18:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/1 "2004-10-25T18:33:53Z")
At least, someone with a decent claim to being mixed up did. "Dera? Y!ooha Merebm, “We mtsu cehck taht yruo Yohao! ID was registdere by rlae ppoele. So, to hlep Y!ooha prevent autdetamo roitartsigens, psaele clcik on tsih lnik and colpmete cedo veitac.” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/2 "2004-10-25T18:52:26Z")
Ah, another variant of the “click this link and tell us all your personal details so we can rob you blind and steal your identity” game. Also pretty much guaranteed to get past bogo-style spam filtering. On the other hand, you gotta give them points for cleverness :dubious: (anyone have a link to those studies that show you can scramble the letters in a word and it’ll still be readable?). [spoiler] "Dear Yahoo! Member, “We must check that your Yahoo! ID was registered by real people. So, to help Yahoo! prevent automated (something unreadable), please click on this link and complete code active”[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/3 "2004-10-25T18:54:08Z")
Don’t leave us in suspense. Did you colpmete it or not? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/4 "2004-10-25T18:59:54Z")
She has such crazy files! Tell her I say HELLO. (I loved that book as a kid.) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/5 "2004-10-25T19:11:44Z")
Sigh. I feel so cheated. Now I wanna go to the museum on my lunch hour! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/6 "2004-10-25T20:19:45Z")
The Factotrix got that exact same one too this weekend at her Yahoo! account. I’ll call her right now and tell her to answer it. It must be real, because it got sent to more than one person! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/7 "2004-10-25T20:32:45Z")
The Factotrix got that exact same one too this weekend at her Yahoo! account. I’ll call her right now and tell her to answer it. It must be real, because it got sent to more than one person! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/8 "2004-10-25T23:01:39Z")
I am incredibly amused by thinking about the pronunciations of the various misspellings of Yahoo! Y!ooha, Yohao! ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/9 "2004-10-25T23:53:48Z")
unreadable word: registrations. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-just-sent-me-an-email/271082/10 "2004-10-26T00:18:24Z")
> [@Mama Zappa](#): > > (anyone have a link to those studies that show you can scramble the letters in a word and it’ll still be readable?). No, but I’m pretty sure the example here is at best a poorly-implemented example of it (if it is an attempt to do that at all) - in odrer to matinain raedabltiy, you hvae to persreve the letetrs at the strat and end.