Thursday, April 16, 2009

Whaaaaaa?

Anybody else get one of these? -

"Dear Account User, This Email is from Yahoo Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo Email User Accounts Owner for safetyWe are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Yahoo accounts so we are shutting down some Yahoo accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name,password,secret question,secret answer,date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account. Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Accounts, Yahoo will be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. * YOUR NAME: *USER NAME:*E-MAIL ID: *PASSWORD: *VERIFY PASSWORD: *SECRET QUESTION:*SECRET ANSWER:*ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESS: *DATE OF BIRTH: *COUNTRY/TERRITORY: Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. We apologize. Yahoo Account Service Team Admin.... "


Oh, COME ON. Put some EFFORT into it, spammers.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Yep. I get those all the time. Someone must fall for that.

rockygrace said...

The ones that still kill me are the Nigerian "my-father-was-president" ones.

Oh, and the Canadian lottery ones are pretty good, too.

Exador said...

My coworker told me about one that actually has some local-ness to it.
(cue urban legend music)
According to him, someone puts tickets on your car, which says you have to go to such and such website to deal with the ticket. Not sure if it's "pay the fine with your credit card" or what.

rockygrace said...

So, the spammers have emerged from their spam-caves to appear in the real world and leave stuff on cars? Spooky.