Tuesday, August 16, 2011

This Seems Legit!

Why do I keep a yahoo address? For gems like this, sometimes.

I think it's the spelling of 'maintenance' in the FROM field that's my favorite. Either that or the signature that it's been scanned for viruses.


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: SERVICE MAINTAINANACE
To:
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 4:49 PM
Subject: Dear yahoo.com User

Yahoo! Mail
Dear yahoo.com User,

We would like to inform you that we are currently carrying out scheduled
maintenance and upgrade of our yahoo.com service and as a result of
this; our yahoo.com client has been changed and your original password will
reset. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

To maintain your yahoo.com account, you must reply to this email immediately
and enter your current password here (********)
Failure to do this within 48hours will immediately render your yahoo.com
account deactivated from our
database.

Thank you for using the yahoo.com account!
"yahoo.com SUPPORT TEAM".
@yahoo.com ACCOUNT ABN 31 088 377 860 All Rights Reserved.

--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.



3 comments:

ALH said...

DON'T DO IT! It's not real! They want your email password!

Kevin said...

I like the use of the semicolon in the first paragraph. Very jaunty of them.

ALH said...

Also, this very official-seeming code.
ACCOUNT ABN 31 088 377 860