Thursday, May 03, 2007

How Do Spammers/Phishers Get People To Click On A Link With An Email Like This?

Here is an email I received from 'Bank Of America'

Dear Customer, picopaco.

You are receiving this message, due to you protection, Our Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy recently detected that your online account was recently logged on from am 81.206.87.152 without am International Access Code (I.A.C) and from an unregistered computer, which was not verified by the Our Online Service Department.

If you last logged in you online account on Thursday April 5th 2007, by the time 6:45 pm from an Foreign Ip their is no need for you to panic, but if you did log in your account on the above Date and Time, kindly take 2-3 minute of your online banking experince to verify and register your computer now to avoid identity theft, your protection is our future medal.


Verification Link

Notice: You can acess your account from a foreign IP or country by getting am (I.A.C) International Access Code, by contacting our local brances close to you.


I won't even count all the spelling mistakes but what the hell is a Our Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy?
take 2-3 minute of your online banking experince. What?

your protection is our future medal
Hahaha ROFL, What the heck is a future medal?

picopaco? is that like Pico de gallo (yes it is almost Cinco de Mayo)

And here is the kicker; the spammer forgot to include a link. I hope he didn't rent a spambot army because he won't get his money out of this one

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