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Inept phishing
Jun. 26th, 2007 08:46 pmMore and more of the spam e-mail I actually see consists of phishing attempts of one sort or another. Whether this is because the other kinds of spam are declining or just that they are easier for the spam traps to filter out, I don't really know.
Occasionally (and with increasing frequency) I see phishing spam that is so ineptly and maladroitly created that I can't believe even the lowest of morons would fall for it. Witness today's example behind cut if you wish.
( Sliced phish spam )
It appears to me that we have spammers who are the equivalent of the "script kiddies", using some sort of script provided by (or sold to them, more likely, by another scam artist) that is supposed to help them make tens of thousands a week by phishing for suckers. And they understand so little of how the scheme works that they make fools of themselves like this. A message "from" Amazon that has no amazon domain at all in the routing trace, nor in the return address, and telling you not about an Amazon account issue but rather about Flagstar Bank? And encouraging you to click a link that isn't even thinly disguised? Anyone stupid enough to fall for this sort of crap deserves to have their bank account vacuumed out, their brains removed through an eyedropper (assuming they can be found), and their identity stolen (but who would want it?)
Occasionally (and with increasing frequency) I see phishing spam that is so ineptly and maladroitly created that I can't believe even the lowest of morons would fall for it. Witness today's example behind cut if you wish.
( Sliced phish spam )
It appears to me that we have spammers who are the equivalent of the "script kiddies", using some sort of script provided by (or sold to them, more likely, by another scam artist) that is supposed to help them make tens of thousands a week by phishing for suckers. And they understand so little of how the scheme works that they make fools of themselves like this. A message "from" Amazon that has no amazon domain at all in the routing trace, nor in the return address, and telling you not about an Amazon account issue but rather about Flagstar Bank? And encouraging you to click a link that isn't even thinly disguised? Anyone stupid enough to fall for this sort of crap deserves to have their bank account vacuumed out, their brains removed through an eyedropper (assuming they can be found), and their identity stolen (but who would want it?)
