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Postby Admin on Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:29 pm

Quoting Dodgy Spammer from badly thought out email, 20/06/08
Dear St-andrews User,

To complete your St-andrews account, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your
username: (*********)
password here (*********)

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database.

We apologise for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period, but trust you understand that our primary concern is for our customers and for the security of their data.

our customers are totally secure
Regards

St-andrews Support Team


This was sent to admin@thesinner.net.
It's not even on the St Andrews system.

I'll let you guys point out the other obvious flaws in their statements, grammar and logic.

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Postby Jono on Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:50 pm

I should hope their "customers" are totally secure. Preferably behind bars!
Now some people weren't happy about the content of that last post. And we can't have someone not happy. Not on the internet.
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Postby Bonnie on Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:02 am

Besides misspelling St Andrews, they suggest that at the very moment you opened the e-mail, you had to click the link or else there would consequences. How could these bad things happen "immediately" after you failed to act-- was there no length of time you have to act?
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Postby rob 'f*ck off' wine boy on Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:32 pm

I got several emails a few months ago from an individual claiming to represent the Bank of America, demanding I disclose my details. Not only does the Bank of America not offer accounts to those outside of the States, the guys email address started with gofuckyourmother901@...

Weirdly enough, I didn't fall for it.

I am however, shocked and appalled to see that so many people are aware of my tiny tiny penis, and am gratified that they are so concerned as to offer me myriad ways of remedying this. Goes to show, not every spammer is bad :)
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Postby orudge on Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:17 pm

I found it particularly interesting one time a couple of years ago when I received an e-mail to my personal e-mail address from the "owenrudge.net support team", asking me to "reactivate my account". Oddly enough, I figured it wasn't genuine.

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