The intelligence of spammers really amazes me. Some will send you e-mails claiming to be your bank asking politely if you would please remind them of your details. A dozen years ago, when new to all of this, I nearly fell for one such e-mail from AOL. It was a perfect copy of the real thing but I managed, just, to avoid falling for it. Others write pleading letters from Nigeria or Kenya asking help to get $24,000,000 dollars out of the country. "Can we please use your bank for this?" they ask politely. Much as I was tempted I avoided this also, others however have appeared on telly whining about the £20,000 taken from their bank accounts by Prince Adebede and his mates. The fact that they were willing to rob another country just to land a million or so leaves me lacking sympathy for them. Do they really believe a politician needs to ask help to get money out of Africa? That has been a well practised art for many years there. Of course politicians in the UK would never do such a thing, they are all honest, upright, and do not have their fingers in the pie. No they don't, really they don't, no they don't, honest.
Today however this arrived and I had to laugh! This type of false info often appears, usually from companies that do not operate in the UK. This one claims to be from DHL, which obviously it isn't. They never deliver to the likes of me, not even Royal Mail deliver packets these days, just letters from the bank demanding money, and I call that spamming too! However when I previewed the thing using Mailwasher, and I recommend folks use some such device, I had to laugh at the inefficiency of these master criminals.
Dear customer.
The parcel was send your home address.
And it will arrice within 7 bussness day.
More information and the tracking number
are attached in document below.
Thank you.
2011 DHL International GmbH. All rights reserverd.
Now my spelling is greatly improved by using the spellchecker. The criminal classes of Russia, China or Albania or wherever however really must be so hard up they cannot afford to buy a free spellchecker! I am not convinced such persons are fit to represent the criminal classes of today. In times past people wearing arrow covered uniforms were much better educated than this. I blame the schools! (I will not mention that I misspelt 'educated') This one may well come from the Russian Federation and if it arrives you will of course be clever enough not to open it, that way leads to a Trojan. I say 'Trojan' but Ivan may well spell that 'tragen' depending on his accent!
Sophos
Coras
The Hoax Slayer report!
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6 comments:
I get that much spam I've actually gone off ham sandwiches.
I really can't believe anyone could fall for the African Prince kind of trick.
There's one in every street.
Funnily enough I was going to blog about spam emails. Great minds - or fools seldom differ?!
i am getting many copies of the DHL one too. Don't tell me it isn't legit! Oh, my. :) Another says it is from my government, telling me my tax payment was not received and would I please email them my bank information so they can correct the deposit. My government would never say they were the Federal Government (They would call themselves the IRS) and would not spell it Fedral if they did. And they wouldn't send me an email anyway - they would come to my house and shake the money out of me. :)
This is an infirmative report that has relived my bowels of much pressure. If you would give me your banking information, I would like to reward you for a job well done.
spam? You guys still get spam?
I ask, because gmail filters it out before it gets to my inbox.
Occasionally i have a look in the spam-folder before I delete it all, and occasionally I find something that's not spam. Each time that happens, Gmail learns a new rule and becomes even more efficient.
One false positive was from a friend who's a..... well let's just say a person who investigates internation crime... She told me she'd had to travel to na**obi, and that very city's dark-continent name triggered the spamtrap.
Imagine if you really had a friend who was a lawyer in Uganda!
Anyway, I wish you well, in your endeavours. I won't be blogging much longer, because it appears a long-lost uncle I didn't know about, was killed in an aircrash in Russia. As his only living relative... (Well, obviously, I'm not going to mention my sister, or brother, am I?), I get ALL of his billionaire fortune. I just have to submit some details to the lawyer in Kiev, themn my life will be changing.
First thing will be to buy a yacht bigger than Abramovitch, then I'm going to buy a top football team, and indulge my hate of footballers. Oh yes, you bastards. No more luxo-cars, you'll all drive morris minors.... And no more celeb lifestyle. No night clubs. A couple of pints at the Dog and Duck will do.
Then back to the team dormitory for ten. lights out at ten-thirty.
Swearing? Spitting? fouling, cheating?
That'll be six of the best, administered by the ref. No kissing, hugging, or flamboyant behaviour either. A particularly good goal will be acknowledged by a gentlemanly handshake from other team members, and a nod of the head.
It still arrives, and at times works past my Mailwasher!!!
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