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**serandfae** · 10-09-2008, 07:33 PM

Thankfully, I don't get many spam e-mails anymore, thanks to having published the addresses of all the ones I got messages from on multiple sites for spambots to harvest. Don't believe me? Try it, it does work. But a few still creep through. I've never posted one of their messages before, but this one was just so over-the-top stupid I couldn't resist. Some people you don't have to make fun of -- you just quote 'em.

This message has been processed by Symantec's AntiVirus Technology.

Statement_01.doc
.exe was infected with the malicious virus W32.SillyFDC and has been deleted
because the file cannot be cleaned.

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http://ses.symantec.com/

-Attached Message-

From: "Cole Robbins" <cavfsyqdeoa@blpmobilepaint.com>
To: <deleted>
Subject: Information of Your Transactions
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:45:42 +0000

Greating and salutations
Dear Valued Customer,

We have reasons to believe that your credit card
has been involved in a number of fraudulent transactions
we have spotted recently. Enclosed is the account
statement with the list of transactions made with your
credit card between 01.09.2008 and 03.09.2008. Please look
carefully through the enclosed document; the last three of
the listed transactions are the ones that we suspect to be
fraudulent.

I would appreciate if you could find time to
clarify this issue and confirm the transactions that you
have made personally. This would help us both to have this
issue resolved as quickly as possible.

Please find the Word-formatted copy of your account statement is
enclosed in the archive attached to this message.

See ya, bye-bye
Cole Robbins
Manager of Credit Card Fraud Defense

<virus-laden attachment links deleted -- 3 of them, no less>

Isn't that a convincing, professional letter?

Never mind the guy couldn't manage to pick his nose without injury, he's going to spam the wrong guy and sign his ticket straight out of the gene pool. He won't be missed.

tim

**dWhite** · 10-09-2008, 07:53 PM

I don't get it?

**serandfae** · 10-09-2008, 08:43 PM

Well, here are some hints:

1) My dog has a better command of the English language than this guy.
2) A "Word-formatted" executable? Even if the virus scanner didn't pick it up, puh-leeze.
3) (drum roll) I don't own a credit card!

I wonder how difficult it would be to run that message through a few mirrors and forward it to the Russian mob with his IP as the origin. They love to get messages from his kind, and are more than happy to express it.