Friday, July 2, 2010

A Message from "Gmail"

From: man_to_u@yahoo.com
Title: FINAL WARNING; Update Your Gmail Account Info!!!

ACCOUNT@ UPDATE's
GMAIL® Team Account Alert!!!
Dear Account Owner,

CONFIRM YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT SERVICES NOW TO AVOID IT CLOSED !!!

This is email from Gmail® Team and we are sending to all account users for  safety. Due to the anonymous registration of our account which is causing congestion to our service, so we are shutting down some account and your account was among those to be deleted,so the purpose of this email is for you to verify that you are the owner of this account and you are still using it by filling the information below after clicking on the reply button:

Full Names&E-mail:

Password:

Verify Password:

Occupation:

Date of Birth:

Country Or Territory:

Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after 48 hours of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Sincerely,
The Gmail Team

Hey there scammer. I do realize that you're trying to con me out of some personal information, but come on. First off, why the hell would Gmail send me a message from a yahoo account? I'll give you the same recommendation I gave that last moron: If you want to phish, then you should star a fishing site and at least try to make the email look authentic.  Use some Google logos. Have the message look like it actually came from a Gmail account. This wouldn't actually work for me, since I'm smart enough to realize that Gmail would ask me for any updated information when I log in and wouldn't need to email me for it, but hey you might manage to scam a few more idiots out of their accounts that way.

I'm also guessing that English isn't your first language, because that message is a bunch of poorly-worded gibberish. I'll try and be "helpful" and do a little proofing for you. This is a message that doesn't look like it was written by a chimpanzee banging away randomly on a keyboard:

CONFIRM YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT SERVICES NOW TO AVOID IT BEING CLOSED !!!

This email is from the Gmail® Team, and we are sending it to all account users for  safety. Due to The anonymous registration of our account which is causing congestion to our service, so we are shutting down some accounts and your account is among those to be deleted, so.  The purpose of this email is for you to verify that you are the owner of this account, and that you are still using it, by clicking on the reply button and filling the information below:
...
Account owners that refuses to update their accounts after 48 hours of receiving this warning will lose their accounts permanently.
Thank you for your cooperation. We apologize for any inconvenience.

There, that's much better. It's still not perfect, but I'm not going to do all of the work for you. My corrections are in red, and note that the strikethrough is used to indicate things that should be deleted.

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