Wow, strangers want to hire me -- not. Sender 1: Scott Pina (tani40@wonderware.com) Subject: Re: Re: Employment Opportunity Followup. Response Required Text: Dear job applicant Thank you for submitting your information for potential employment openings. We look forward to reviewing … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Harvard Medical School
Well, I haven't been treated at Harvard. I live thousands of miles away. And it wouldn't normally occur to me to "shop" at a medical school or hospital (though after investigation I found that the publications shown on the message do cost money.) But aside from that (and assuming … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: LinkedIn phishing
The recent theft of passwords from LinkedIn prompted me to post these spams masquerading as messages from that firm. The first one made no attempt beyond the Sender name to look like it came from LinkedIn. The others made a minimal attempt to look like a LinkedIn message and all look … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Facebook notifications
Similar to the notifications from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare I got a few weeks ago, I'm getting lots of fake Facebook notifications. According to this article, they're phishing messages. Here are a few examples: Sender: Facebook (confirm+robert@ig.com.br) Subject: Reminder: … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Money
This is about as lame as it gets. I hope no one would click on a message like this. Even Outlook recognizes it as phishing. Sender: yomrgoo@yahoo.com (no attempt to make it look real) To: robert@rlplumbingcompany.com (not me) Subject: FW: Money Text: Click Here Shared Online News Article … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: CitiBank Account Alert
This type of phishing scam is common as dirt, but this example is particularly lame. First, it includes the sections of CitiBank's standard notices that would normally include the account holder's name and the last 4 digits of the account -- but they're blank. Then there are some … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: May be try it?
This one purports to come from LinkedIn. It has the familiar blue line and uses their font (but not their logo). But the sender name shows clearly that it didn't come from LinkedIn and there's no way the text could be seen as a legitimate LinkedIn message. Sender: LinkedIn … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: self-identified spam
This one is peculiar. My name isn't on the To line, and there's no offer, link, or attachment. Lot's of non-Western characters (or random text) in the subject & sender lines. This message didn't come from my anti-spam software and my ISP says it didn't come from theirs. To: … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: messages from YouTube
I've seen several flavors of this spam lately. The formatting is pretty good -- not the usual lameness. It's the content that's lame. This site says they're from an online pharmacy. Version 1: Sender: YouTube Service (service@youtube.com) Subject: YouTube Service sent you a message: … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Amazon cancelation
Lame lame lame. This doesn't look remotely like an email from Amazon. And of course it's not for a product I ordered. Would someone really click this? Previous incarnations of this spam have led to a Canadian online pharmacy, and the hyperlinks in this one lead to a site in … [Read more...]
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