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What the hell was this in my email?

by timpears
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I decided to clean out my SPAM folder of my email. A couple (actually six) of subjects jumped out at me. URGENT, Your Tax Payment ID 0103344463 (numbers change for each one) has been rejected.

I am not sure what this scam is trying to accomplish, but I found it intrestingly stupid, with the numerous spelling errors.




I wonder if these scumb bags actually make any money from doing this kind of stuff.
#email #hell
  • Profile picture of the author AFI
    I get those every day too. SPAM ain't just for breakfast anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    I must've received about 50 of those emails yesterday. Bloody annoying.
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  • Profile picture of the author Teravel
    You would think that the Internet Scammers would at least learn how to use the Spell Check... I know our government isn't perfect, but they at least pay people to spell check their legal documents. All I can do is shake my head to such ignorance. And no, I doubt they make any real money with this tactic.
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  • Profile picture of the author waterotter
    Welcome to the club! I think we would be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn't receive this email.

    Beat ya though, I got 250 of em!
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  • Profile picture of the author EdmundLoh
    Looks like I wasn't the only one! I noticed my spam count rose tremendously in the last 3 days, I wonder if my server got hacked or something. This unusually annoying spam/scam is becoming a hot topic on Facebook too.
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  • Profile picture of the author gottahave
    I received hundreds of similar emails this morning across most of my email accounts. Luckily most were picked up by the spam filter on my server and only a few slipped through to my MS Outlook.

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    • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
      Yep - I keep getting those in mine, too. I never trust the emails that come to that account, so I always double-check before opening. Who knows what horrors might befall me - or those on my contacts list, for that matter.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        You have to wonder at the mentality that will think up this scam and email massively - and can't spell English worth a damn.

        There are sophisticated spam and phishing emails that almost look like the real thing - but this certainly isn't one of those.

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        • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          You have to wonder at the mentality that will think up this scam and email massively - and can't spell English worth a damn.

          There are sophisticated spam and phishing emails that almost look like the real thing - but this certainly isn't one of those.

          kay
          Yes - like the ones that come from "Fedex Shipping" and say in the subject line that "Your packages didn't arrive at their destination." Talk about heart-stopping.
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