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Phishing Spam that is Not Fooling Anyone

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We got a few hundred of these last week in our SpamSentinel Quarantine database. They are trying to scare people into clicking a link to download a software program the helps in some vague way.  But it really does not work at all.  Why?  Because the text was written in non-American English, meaning it jumps out at you as a fake.  The biggest item is the replacement of the decimal point with a comma, which definitely is uncommon usage in America. SpamSentinel caught all of these, but even if you do not use a spam filter on your Lotus Notes email account, I doubt anyone would click on this particularly bad attempt at Phishing ...

A badly executed Phishing email.  These spammers aren't fooling anyone...
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Gravatar Image1 - In addition to spelling mistakes, note that there are several grammatical errors. Most large banks have lawyers reviewing outgoing mass communications and, among other things, they make sure that any ambiguity is removed -- including those introduced by grammatical errors.

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