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So today I got this email and it made me giggle a bit. I certainly hope there aren't too many people out there foolish enough to fall for something like this.

"This email is from hotmail Customer Care Center and we are sending it to every hotmail email User Accounts Owner for there safety. we are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of Hotmailaccounts so we are shutting down some hotmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.We are sending you this email so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name,password,date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion in all Hotmail users and removal of all unused Hotmail Accounts,Hotmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 72 hours for security reasons.


VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT NOW!!!


Hotmail ID :
Alternative Email:
Password :
Your Birthday :
Your Country or Territory :
Enter the letter from the Security Image :

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
©2011 Microsoft Corporation Privacy Use enhanced security (SSL) Help Central Feedback"
Anyways, I thought it might be amusing to share our favorite phishing attempts. Anyone else got some doozies?

Yes.

Didn't save any, though. Sorry.
Got a handful of favorite chain letters, though.

--Patrick

You'd be surprised how often that crap works.

Every week I get an email from the "United States Parcel Service" claiming I missed a package delivery. All I need to go is give my name, address, phone number, and credit card number to verify and have it delivered again.

Tress said:

Every week I get an email from the "United States Parcel Service" claiming I missed a package delivery. All I need to go is give my name, address, phone number, and credit card number to verify and have it delivered again.

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Lol, classic.

doomdragon6 said:

You'd be surprised how often that crap works.

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Tell me about it. My hubby can be absent minded at times, especially when he is in a hurry. I worry that he is going to someday go "oh ok" without thinking and fall for some scam. Sometimes I read stories about such scams out-loud to kinda subtly drill a suspicious attitude about e-mails into him without being patronizing, so that his knee-jerk reaction to any unsolicited mail is wft is this. So far it seems to be working. He doesn't even bother looking at "blizzard" e-mails anymore

Man, I wish had saved some of mine. I've gotten some doozies.

Just got this one yesterday, I'm sure it will catch some people... The link goes to a phishing site.

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I get those too, in addition to ones allegedly from online services I don't even use, like Twitter etc.

Oh yeah. I love the ones that have a link all spelled out...except that the HREF doesn't match the label.

--Patrick