Subject: E-mail account security warning.
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:37:04 -0800
From: support@umd.eduDear user, the management of Umd.edu mailing system wants to let you know that,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
Please, read the attach for further details.
In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: 86364.
Sincerely,
The Umd.edu team
What’s interesting about this, I suppose, is that on the one hand it goes to great lengths to represent itself as an authentic communication—discursively—yet at the level of individual words and sentences it’s riddled with solecisms that cause it to fall flat on its face. You see this sort of thing over and over again online. Once the virus writers figure out to spell (or spell check), look out.
Posted by mgk at March 2, 2004 06:48 PMWeird. I got an almost identical email from "suppoart@gatech.edu." Same basic tricks, although mine claimed that "a large ammount of viruses have been coming from your email" or something to that effect.
Almost fooled me.
Posted by: chuck at March 2, 2004 09:02 PM | Link to CommentApproximately 8437342132 of these later, it's no longer quite so interesting.
Posted by: MGK at March 3, 2004 06:12 PM | Link to CommentYeah, the spam/viruses via UMD is getting old. Fast.
Posted by: Jason at March 5, 2004 11:28 AM | Link to Comment