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Inept phishing emails

njpnjp Posts: 27,583
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I've never really understood why people who send out phishing emails usually don't bother to check their English spelling or grammar. But I've just received one where it appears that the wannabee phisher couldn't even be arsed to modify the template. I guess his generic spamware had a malfunction.

The body of the email reads:

Письмо содержит вирус!
HTML.Phishing.Bank-1232 FOUND

And the attachment is helpfully entitled:

infected.msg.zip

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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,934
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    njp wrote: »
    I've never really understood why people who send out phishing emails usually don't bother to check their English spelling or grammar. But I've just received one where it appears that the wannabee phisher couldn't even be arsed to modify the template. I guess his generic spamware had a malfunction.

    The body of the email reads:

    Письмо содержит вирус!
    HTML.Phishing.Bank-1232 FOUND

    And the attachment is helpfully entitled:

    infected.msg.zip

    That actually means "The mail contains a virus".

    Maybe it's a fiendishly clever double bluff. The sender might be thinking "If I tell people that I'm sending them a virus, they'll think I'm just being ironic, and they'll happily open any infected attachments".
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    cbe21okcbe21ok Posts: 3,047
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    I can never understand the ones where the link is just black text instead of a clickable link, like i am going to cut and paste some spam rubbish into the browser!.
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