A spam e-mail I received at the office. <\/p>\n
FROM: Rosemary (xyz@yahoo.co.in)
\nTO: Fletcher, Fred; Hill, Dave<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBecause, of course, all official e-mail for anything comes from an Indian Yahoo! address. And is sent “accidentally” to two different people.<\/p>\n
Good Day, james oaks<\/p>\n
Health Pack for james oaks is ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, heck, I’m convinced already.<\/p>\n
Please re-confirm zip.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/geocities.com\/XxxxxxxNnnnn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There was no ZIP file attached, so either it got stripped, left off, or this means that I’m “james oaks” is supposed to re-confirm things zippy-fast.<\/p>\n
And, of course, all official “Health Packs” come via geocities.com accounts (which have personal names on them that have no relation to the sender, recipient, or anything that sounds like a “Health Pack”).<\/p>\n
The Buyer as per our records: james oaks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, boy! I can take advantage of your faulty non-capitalized records!<\/p>\n
your info if wrong order please help us to correct it
\nJust visit our site above to make sure.<\/p>\nRegards,
\nRosemarie<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOh, boy! I can take advantage of your bad English, too! Must be a great deal for me, right?<\/p>\n
There are two types of e-mail scams — there’s the, “Boy, this is fiendishly clever — I sure hope folks exercise their paranoia and don’t fall for it” type, and there’s the “Boy, this is incredibly stupid — too bad the scammers can’t steal the ability of their victims to breed, because it would sure improve the gene pool if anyone who fell for this was removed from it” type.<\/p>\n
This is definitely one of the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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