July 30, 2008

  • i love it when spammers don't even try.  seriously, it's one of the few things on the internet i can truly laugh at with no regrets.

    this arrived in my inbox a little while ago.  at first, it looks almost legit, which is more than i can say for most of the spam that gets through thunderbird's spam filter.  but the closer i looked at it, the more weirdness i saw.

    first off, i don't even bank at Bank of America.  nobody in my family does.  second, that isn't my e-mail address, and i doubt BofA has figured out what the BCC function does.  third, the reply-to is horrendous.  fourth, the headers show this was sent from a personal comcast account using some random mail client, and not a business account.  fifth, the received-from field doesn't match up, which probably means the botnet is using comcast webmail with a phished account.  and last but not least, the link goes to a site in denmark which isn't even valid.

    i had to laugh.  heartily.  and i had to post it here.

    also as you may have noticed, seibaaaaaa has been replaced.  as awesome as she is, it was time for a change.  i think yuno fits nicely.