I got two spams this week claiming to come from the IRS. They look like different schemes — one is trying to get me to call a 900 number at $4.79/minute, the other includes a link. But they look similar so I’m posting them together. Message 1: Sender: Tiera Tanner (AditaOki@megpgh.com) Subject: Rejection of your [...]
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OK, this one’s novel. It claims to be a notification from a red-light camera. Even though I’ve never been in (or heard of) this city, it’s tempting to make sure I’m not the victim of a bureaucratic mistake. But I was able to resist because of the lameness of the message. The From address doesn’t [...]
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I hope no one is stoopid or careless enough to fall for something this lame. Here’s the totality of the message. No graphics, no name, nothin. Sender: Customer Informer (chdkz@dnco.com) Subject: It’s important! Text: Your personal link: http://vykrd.pillscloud.ru
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This spam is similar to the American Airlines Ticket Order message, but much lamer. It’s addressed to “Dear User”, doesn’t bother to include a human sender name, doesn’t mention an airline or destination, and the link clearly goes somewhere fishy. In fact, it doesn’t even say the charge is for an airline ticket — maybe [...]
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Here’s another set of spams claiming to come from Inuit. An earlier batch asked me to provide my tax information. This batch confirms my non-existent purchases with links to download my order, reorder checks, and submit feedback. It looks official, with an Intuit logo and nice formatting. I got 6 variants today, with subject lines: [...]
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This one’s lame, but probably easy for a busy person at a large company to fall for. I do like the “put on something normal” line. Sender: HullJAIME@aol.com Subject: DONT FORGET! Text: The meeting with new clients is due today in 17:27. Be in time and put on something normal! Here is the map for [...]
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I’m crushed. I didn’t even know I had a CPA license, and now it’s being revoked. Over and over (19 times in the past 2 days!). According to the AICPA’s web site it’s a phishing scam. Unlike most lame spam, at least they bothered to make it look real. Here’s what they look like (some [...]
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This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious — preying on disaster victims (one can hope they’re just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). Sender: Ban ki Moon (Info@cast.net) Subject: United Nations Headquarters Text: United Nations Headquarters 760 [...]
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I got 5 versions of this over the last few days, all offering the position of Regional Agent with ITX LLC. Quite a hiring spree. Some claimed to come from job.com, others from monster.com. None had links or attachments, just a reply address. Sender: Beulah Maldonado (noreply@monster.com) Subject: Job with a flexible work schedule Text: [...]
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This one should win a prize for lameness. No graphics, no links, no attachment, no signature, nothing. Is someone testing their new spam toy? Sender: WorldWide Lottery (bevile@bevilehotel.com.br) Subject: Prize Winning. Text: Did you receive our email ??
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