If you're going to go phishing for people's credit info, you ought to at least be somewhat proficient in the English language. Here's part of a phraudulent phishing scam pretending to be from Paypal.
During our regular maintennance updates and procedures, we have reviewed all account informations that are securely stored on our database. Our staff have found accounts that needs to be updated in order to maintain the integrity of accounts. At this point, we require you to verify you account information by accessing you account.It's probably a good thing they mangle the language; they phool phewer people that way. Enough of the "ph" thing. But one question: Why did they start calling that scam "phishing", anyway?
This update must be done immediately in order for us to update your account information. Otherwise, we will temporarily block all access to your account until updates has been completed. (Emphasis mine, of course.)
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Now that's hilarious, especially before a second cup of coffee.
After the second cup, we determined that the tree was, too, drinking; it must have sucked up at least a pint overnight. Good enough.
More later... laptop battery is beeping.
2 comments:
Several years ago, shortly after we'd first gone online at my house, I received a similarly mangled missive from someone trying to gain access to my ISP account information. Even had I been credulous enough to buy their scam, the misspellings and grammatical errors were dead giveaways.
I wrote a short response:
"Your dishonesty is only exceeded by your illiteracy."
I doubt that the person to whom it was addressed understood the message, though.
The sad thing is that so many Americans can't spell and don't care that these might be American high school graduates.
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