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LOL hilarious webmail scam

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:37 pm
by Red Squirrel
This one is hilarious. I like the fact that it's like super generic and not even from any company. Like, they're not even trying to fake it being hotmail or something.

Dear Account User,

This message is from the Office of the Webmail Admin Helpdesk Center to all
webmail account owners. Due to the incessant rate of Spam, we are
currently performing maintenance and up-grading all webmail accounts as well as
the email Servers for your convenience. All email services will be
interrupted during this period, To prevent your account from closing during this
exercise you will have to update it below to know it's status as a
currently used account with a hard spam protector.

This Maintenance commenced on June 11th to end July 10th 2011 beginning at 9:00
p.m. until approximately 12:00 midnight to enable us increase
the storage size of your webmail account. Be informed  also that we will not
hesitate to delete your email account if not functioning to create more
space for new users.

Confirm Your email account Details by clicking on the reply button and follow by
your;

*Full Name:
*E-mail ID:
*E-mail Password:
*Confirm Password:
*Date of Birth:

After upgrading, a password reset link will be sent to your email for new
password.  Please understand that this is a security measure intended to
help protect your email Account.

Webmail Admin Helpdesk Center
Warning Code :ID64623821
The worse part of this is there are people out there who are big enough morons to actually fall for this.

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