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The BBQ Pit
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If you’re going to steal an identity are clean out a bank account, the least you can do is learn to spell.

I received this urgent email from a bank today (This is cut and pasted, only the URL has been edited):

Dear client of Regions Bank,

Technical services of the Regions Bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following link to start the procedure of confirmation on customers data.
To get started, please click the link below:
https://online.regions.com/ibsregions/******************.cfm

This instruction has been sent to all bank customers and is obligatory to fallow.

Thank you,

Customers Support Service.
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Pursuant to their instructions, I am lying in a field, and will begin to rot soon.

2

That’s what I love about being American. Our complex, semi-colloquial style of English is almost impossible for foreign scam artists to accurately mimic.

3

OK, I admit I didn’t get it on first read. I had to read it a second time to actually see the (ahem) obligatory instruction.

“I am lying in a field, and will begin to rot soon.” Brilliant!