“Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.” (from Measure For Measure)
Getting bombarded by Phishers is no fun, but sometimes, these communications offer some comic relief. This posting is dedicated to the anguished English and linguistic jewels they produce. May the tormented ghost of Shakespeare continue to sabotage their exploits.
Here are my top ten favorites:
- Starting the message in one language and then switching to another, as in “Dear Cliente,”
- Getting subject-verb agreement wrong, as in “Your account just make…”
- Poor punctuation, as in “Due to concerns, for safety and the integrity…”
- Nonsense content, as in “Most of your data in our database were encrypted…”
- Poor formatting, such as missing a space after a period. That’s right.
- Wrong capitalization as in “This is the Last reminder…”
- Poor grammar, as in “If this message was sent as Junk or Spam, it’s just an error…”
- Excessive use of exclamation marks, such as “Update Required!!”
- Poor spelling, as in “It has come to our [our] attention that…”
- Failure to do basic arithmetic accurately, as in “$254.99 + $20.00 = $374.99.”
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Thanks for sharing this post.
Just a reminder that at PayPal, we won’t send you an email asking you to give us any of the following:
• your full bank or credit card number
• your debit card PIN number
• your entire driver’s license numbers
• a listing of your email addresses
• a listing of your physical (street) addresses
• your full name
• your password (to PayPal or any other account)
• the answers to your security questions
I was wondering if you ever thought of changing the structure of your website? Its very well written; But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. You’ve got an awful lot of text and only 1 or two pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
Thanks for the feedback. More pictures is a good idea…
I err, therefore I am :-)
You would think that eBay and PayPal would use this type of filtering to fight this type of fraud.
I’ve joined your feed and look forward to more history posts. Great job on the “How Tall is the Staff of Ra?”
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