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NEWS 167 - 11 Comments
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Holy shit, man! My Bank One website is always telling us that this kind of crap happens and that they would never send us email asking for passwords/PINs. That is freaky. Still, you'd have to be fairly retarded to fall for this, in my opinion.
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Yeah, I think the "cmoeptle this prseocs " line was a major clue that this is a fraud. I don't know how to cmoeptle a prseoc (or how to correctly pronounce it), but I'm willing to learn.
Also, be aware of those official-looking eBay emails you might get, saying there's been a security breach, and you have to click a link and log in your password... they look real, but that's how your account info. gets swiped. I get them once in a while and just delete 'em.
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I just got nearly the same email. Normally I would blindly delete any bank-based emails except for my own bank, but I had to check this one after Fatty's. Sure enough, it's practically identical.
All I have to say is whatever retarded jackhole would actually fall for this misspelled piece of crap deserves to have their "pscores" fornicated.
From: "_CITIBANK_" <gemerson@mail.com>
To: "Johns" <johns224@yahoo.com>
Subject: Citicards e_mail Veerification - johns224@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:05:12 -0500
Dear Citbiank Clients_,
_This Email was se-nt by t_he Citibank _server_ to
veerify your_ email adress.
You musst cmpolete this pscores by clicking on_the link
below and enttering in the litle window_ your _citibank
Debbit full card number and _PIN that you use_ in the Atm.
This_is donne for Your proctetion -D- becourse some of_our
members no lngoer have acsecs to their email adrseseds
and we must verify it.
http://citigroup.net:%4e%54%6f%6149%4b@%77%73%67%68
%72784%64%2e%64%61%2e%52%75/%3f9%58%64%6b%69%5a
To veerify _your_ E-MAIL addres and acces _your_ OnlineCitibank
account, clic on_the_link below_.
EbA5aAemEREi
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This is getting out of hand:
From: "Yahoo!_" <dmnewman@kichimail.com>
To: "Johns" <johns224@yahoo.com>
Subject: Your Yahoo` account* (johns224@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:40:06 -0500
Dear Yahoo` _Users_,
This e-mail _inform_ Y0U _that_ your Y@HOO! _account_ (johns224@yahoo.com)
will be BL0CKED _after_ 25 _days_ (as after autoomateed reegisttration) 1f Y0U will_
_not_ s!gnup on YAHO0! white l1st (_to_ _signup_ - c|ick HERE: http://Johns.yahoo.com/)
This !s D0NE beecause we` update N0W YAHO0 _not_ autoomateed reegistered User IDs.
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Pretty ridiculous. I've been getting this crap too. My spam usually falls under one of these categories:
1) Fake Ebay Security e-mails
2) Ads for products that make your dick bigger (I used to forward these to Fatty and tease him that I got his e-mail by mistake, but there's just too many of them anymore to bother).
3) e-mails from horny college girls that want me to check out photos of them and their friends on-line.
What's with all the bad spelling and weird characters in these things? Is it by mistake or by design?
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Roche may fight me on this (if he ever bothers to check in on us here), but when he first got online he was getting emails from the horny college girls and actually considered that they might be genuinely interested in talking to him. I assured him that they were not, but he wasn't so sure at first.
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Seriously though, the girls at Hooters really liked us.
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Zilla - My theory with regards to all the bad spelling and garbledygook in those e-mails is so they get by any spam filters... y'know, for example, most people's employers use filters so that any e-mail with, say, the word "porn" in the subject line is blocked. In fact, my friend Brian, who's a computer consultant, was setting up some software for a client to do just that, and had to sit there all day thinking up what words should be filtered out, like cock, anal, fisting, etc....
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I've recently noticed a trend toward unintelligible spam emails. Perhaps in the hopes that they can evade spam filters, spammers fill their messages with nonsensical gibbersish. The following is a prime example:
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:58:29 -0300
To: johns224@yahoo.com
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Dude, that's not spam, you must have signed up for the Random Poetry of the Week e-mail newsletter and forgotten about it.
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Yeah, that sounds like me.
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