Sunday, 31 May 2009

How does this work?

This delightful bit of spam managed to get past TB's filters. Starts off all polite and everything...

Dear Esteemed Customer,

This is an important Barclays bank security Message .

We Recently reveiwed your account, and suspected that your Barclays Ibanking Account,
may have been violated from another IP.
Protecting the security of your account and of the barclays bank network is our primary concern therefore,
as a preventive measure,we have temporarily limited your access to sensitive account features.

To restore your account access,please take the following step to ensure that your account has not been compromised.

1,Login to your barclays bank internet banking acconut.
and you will have to fill in all required information.

2 Reveiws your recent account history for any unautorized withdrawers or deposites,
and check your account profile to make sure no changes was made.
If any unauthorized activities has been made ,report to any barclay bank close to you.

Kind regards,
Barclays Bank Plc


There was then a link to follow to "log in". The bold highlights were added by TB but seriously though, who would fall for that?

Anyone who received that email and then felt the need to divulge their bank details deserves to be robbed as they clearly have more money than sense
.

1 comments:

Will S
said...

I got one:

Title of the EMail was "Your super mega beast will grow like on yeast."

Body: "With a big friend in underwear you can go far, you can be a bright and shining star."

Best I could find in my spam inbox.

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