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06/20/2015 04:53:16 PM · #1
Dear E-mail-Account Owner,

This message comes from your (EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER) messaging admin center to All E-mail-Account owners. We are currently improving our Database and E-mail Account Center and creating more certainty for our Legal Service clients At this moment we are upgrading our data base so that there will be more space for new customers and increasing the surf on the Internet. To prevent your Email address not to be DE-activated and to enable it upgraded, Because we understand that last time that your email was compromised because it was associated with lack of upgradeable in order to secure your email from losing again just follow the instruction instructed bellow

you need to assist us by sending the information below to enable us upgrade it, so that your email account status were flect in our database as a very active, useful and legal email account.

Do send to us the below information to enable us upgrade your Account, else your email account will lost in a
short time.

Email text question: ________
email text answer: _______
First Name: _____________
Last Name: Ioan_____________
Date of Birth: ____________
E-mail Address: ___________
E-mail pass-word: __________
Alternative Email:Alternative: pass-word: Country or territory:State:

WARNING!!! E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his or her account within Five days after notification of this update will permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of the client or user's account and we will not be responsible for loosing
our account.

Thanks for your understanding as it is geared towards serving you better.

Web mail Support Team
06/20/2015 05:39:09 PM · #2
Well, they can't spell and they are a little dense with the grammar, but if they can count,
you're off the hook in 5 days!
"...will permanently be deleted from our data base"
06/20/2015 06:11:42 PM · #3
Ever saw one of those which was not lame? I don't get how people still can fall for this.
Not saying you are, but obviously it works. Otherwise these practises would not continue.
06/23/2015 12:20:39 PM · #4
Yes, grammar and spelling is almost always bad.

It's different because it looks like it has fill in the forms fields (EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER) which they got and were too stupid to customize.

Also, this line is classic: "Because we understand that last time that your email was compromised because it was associated with lack of upgradeable in order to secure your email from losing again just follow the instruction instructed bellow "

Makes my head spin reading it.
06/23/2015 01:06:10 PM · #5
Originally posted by Nadine_Vb:

Ever saw one of those which was not lame? I don't get how people still can fall for this.
Not saying you are, but obviously it works. Otherwise these practises would not continue.


We keep a list on my white board at work of the people who have responded to phishing emails. One user has a (2) next to her name. Yes, after getting compromised once, and being chastised for it, she did it again.
06/23/2015 01:54:34 PM · #6
Originally posted by Neil:

Yes, grammar and spelling is are almost always bad.


I could not resist.
:)
06/23/2015 02:04:35 PM · #7
Originally posted by Neil:

Yes, grammar and spelling is almost always bad.

It's different because it looks like it has fill in the forms fields (EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER) which they got and were too stupid to customize.

Also, this line is classic: "Because we understand that last time that your email was compromised because it was associated with lack of upgradeable in order to secure your email from losing again just follow the instruction instructed bellow "

Makes my head spin reading it.


Well, just bellow as instructed and you'll feel much better!
06/23/2015 10:45:49 PM · #8
Another competitor for this title, which I was so honored to receive yesterday. Actually, more of a typical Nigerian scam, but:

Originally posted by FakeMrGates:

Greetings to You

You have been gifted $5 MILLION USD From Mr Bill Gates. Contact me at this email for your claim: billgatesdonations@qq.com

I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive a sum of $5,000,000,00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate, please see the link below:

//www.cnet.com/news/bill-and-melinda-gates-top-forbes-list-as-most-philanthropic-americans/

I BILL GATES and my wife decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the 10 lucky individuals all over the world from our $65 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help people. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance and i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you. Melinda my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. as you could see from the webpage above,am not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to live. although am a Billionaire investor and we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members, Before we die we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in truro where Melinda underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 30% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining days because i am no longer strong am sick and am writing you from hospital computer.and me and my wife will be traveling to Germany for Treatment.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send us

your full names.................
your contact address................
your personal telephone number...............

so that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Mr Bill Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

REMAIN BLESSED

Regards
Mr Bill Gates


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