I got 14 of these over the past 2 days. I'd hope that anyone who gets emails from Verizon would see immediately that these are fake. While they used the Verizon logo and colors, the logo is blurry, the font is wrong, the From: addresses aren't at Verizon domains, and the English is … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: FDIC Transactions stopped
I got a dozen spams today claiming to come from the FDIC. Here are details on the exploit. The spammers at least took the trouble to use the FDIC logo, but didn't bother to make the random sender addresses look like legitimate FDIC addresses. The truly lame part is that the text is … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Amazon HDTV shipments
I got 3 versions of this today. The most amusing part is that the shipping address is a mail merge field with my email address inserted. I'm sure that will produce some funny results for people with more creative email addresses. I don't see any posts about what the links do and … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Fake Facebook notifications
Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. Here's a sample of what's landed in my spam folder. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au] Facebook … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: FedEx invoices
I got a dozen of these yesterday. Most of them showed the sender as "Milton Ballard" so hopefully they won't fool anyone. But the last one came from BillingOnline@fedex.com so it was slightly more convincing. The subject lines included: Please pay your outstanding Fedex … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Proposal Attached
A bunch of these have accumulated in my spam folder. No logo, no formatting, no attempt to look like they come from a business I'd be familiar with. They look like they actually came from gmx.com so maybe they're merely annoying rather than malicious. Senders: Thomas Mainer … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Intuit Payroll Services
I got 4 versions of this today. It's not totally lame -- it uses Intuit's logo at the top. But the language is awkward enough that I hope anyone would think twice before clicking. All 4 versions had the same sender: Intuit Payroll Services (intuitpayroll@e.payroll.intuit.com) The … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: ADP Notifications
I've been seeing a variety of these recently. Since I don't use ADP it's obvious that they're spam, but others may fall for them. The first one below had no logo or other graphics, and used only plain, unformatted text. Sender: ADPClientServices@adp.com Subject: ADP Generated Message: … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: HELLO
So much lame spam, so little time to blog about it. Here's today's example. No graphics, all caps, the From address doesn't match the "write me at" address. Does it get any lamer? Sender: Tesfaye, Fanuel (f.tesfaye@unesco.org) Subject: HELLO Text: BUSINESS FOR YOU, CONTACT ME … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: targeting golfers
The latest lame spams in my inbox are aimed at golfers. How's that for micro-targeting? None of the messages had any formatting or logos, just plain text with attachments. I don't see any posts online saying what the attachments do, but I'm assuming they're not legit. I don't … [Read more...]
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