Those kids, sitting in internet cafes in the night, when charges are minimal, are using tried and tested scripts. If they get a response, it is passed up the chain to their manager. Managers should be fluent enough to get a dialogue going and then pass any likely mug up to the bosses.
Bearing in mind that the number of positive responses is probably a fraction of 1%, the kids at the bottom will earn very little. Much like the drug distribution chain, the bosses will have the flash cars and the bottom rung work for a pittance dreaming of being bosses one day.
I’m not sure where this notion of scam/spam emails being commonly misspelled comes from. Yes I’ve seen some bad ones with misspellings but the “good” ones are very slick & professional looking. Hence why people get sucked in.
I dunno. When I check out my spam folders I almost never see any that are anything other than completely obvious spam with a lot of them containing obvious misspellings. And I don’t see any spam that makes it through the spam filter either.
Our salesman was talking to a prospect: in a small industry, they all knew each other. He suggested that the prospect had done enough thinking, and should just do the right thing and buy the product.
That message never got through, and just for S&G they tried to work out why.
Apparently when talking to a cigarette company, “do the right thing” is a phrase you should never use. Or spell differently.
A nice bit of phishing spam, titled Paul M. Abbate, Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a blank To: field.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535, USA
Attention: Beneficiary,
We sincerely apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone, or face to face conversation, it’s due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizens, I am deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Paul M. Abbate, We intercepted and seized a sealed envelope at the John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, NY 11430 coming from a foreign, we scanned the sealed envelope’s content and found it contained a part payment of $410,000 United States Dollar value certified payment bond. Also, the sealed envelope had documents with your name on them as the receiver of the package. After questioning the diplomat who accompanied the sealed envelope into the United States, we learned that he was supposed to deliver this sealed envelope to your residence as an inheritance / winning prize payment due / owed to you.
The envelope paperwork lacks the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE form, we confiscated it and release the Diplomat. The sealed envelope according to section 229 subsection 31 of the International Commerce Regulators Code Enforcement Guidelines, lacks PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE and since the content is valued financial material of such amount from the joint team of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation and Homeland Security, you’re to reply for direction on how to procure the envelope and be relieved of the charge of tax evasion which is punishable by law under section 12 subsection 441 of the tax code. We will also be asking the IRS to launch an investigation on money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.
You are required to reply within 72 hours at that point I will walk you through the process of clearing and claiming the money. Failure to comply may lead to your arrest, interrogation and,/or you being prosecuted in the Court of Law for tax evasion and/or money laundering, also you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in the United States or the United Kingdom or any part of the world regarding your Fund because your payment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.
Yours in Service,
Paul M. Abbate
Deputy Director of the FBI