Thursday, March 20, 2014

Totally legit

The following email made it through the spam filters this week.

Dear Apple user

To get back into your apple account, you'll need to confirm your account . It's easy: Click the link below to open a secure browser window. Confirm that you're the owner of the account and then follow the instructions.

What should I do next ?

All what you need to do is to follow the link below that will take you to our resolution centre, you will be asked to verifiy your account ,after that your account will back to work normaly once again .

<link that doesn't begin with www.apple.com>

Before log in your account will be Confirmed, let us know right away.
Reporting it is important because it helps us prevent fraudsters from stealing your information. Yours sincerely, apple .

Apple Support Team
Spelling mistakes?  Check.  Spaces before a period and question mark?  Yep.  Spelling the company name in all lower-case?  Of course.  Two separate signatures?  You betcha.

This one looks totally legit.

1 comment:

  1. I haven't actually read the paper, but I think the summary is basically: "It's exhausting to defraud people at web scale. Better filter out the ones with half a brain first by writing crappy copy."

    see: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf

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