Spammers

[karohemd]

I just got one of those Barclay scams. The body was actually quite well done, just the From: field wasn't disguised at all, it had "allstar01" and a hotmail address as sender...

A bit like the bloke who stole a woman's handbag, found a worldcup ticket in it, went to the game and was then arrested because he sat down next to her husband with her ticket. ;o)

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just had the most convincing yet

[gopher-that.livejournal.com]

A "bank" almost got me. It named my name and the back four digits of a debit card. I thought it was geniune till I checked with them. The only mistake they made was calling the last four digits of a debit car the last four digits of my current account.

Dont trust any bank that e-mails you, even if you use their online service, independently type in the email adress and send them secure emails about any email they or anyone else send with your details (to collect from there secure site which you need to be logged in too).

[tobykenobi.livejournal.com]

I've had a few of these and noticed something strange - if you highlight the text by clicking and dragging down, you'll find some hidden text at the bottom of the email. I assume this is to try to fool spam filters, but what initially looks like random words turns out to be some really bizarre phrases.
Fortunately I've not had one recently so I can't show you... just remember to take a look next time, it's a bit spooky.

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

the spam which starts with random words to fool bayesian filters is always very strange