For some reason, the standard spam filter in my email program has been fooled on several occasions today. First, there were around 20 instances of a Viagra/Cialis advert, poorly disguised as an undelivered mail. Then came 25 instances of the W32/Sober-Z worm, purportedly from the Home Office. Blunkett’s last revenge, perhaps?
And now, I’ve just received what appeared to be one of the lamest phishing attempts I’ve seen…
To: XPost@spaghetti-factory.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:48:48 GMT
Subject: Your IP was logged
Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 324-3000
Now, this probably indicates that I’m the most horrendous pedant, but the first thing I noticed was the grammatical error… “The list of questions are attached”.
The attachment, in case you wondered, is just the old W32/Sober-Z worm again. Send as many as you like… can’t hurt my Mac one bit!