Spam Subject Headlines

Ha!

From my "Trash" folder, the random bits of "this isn't spam really see all the nice not-spammy text?" that come at the end of ads:





Hey, Tolstoy again!

This one's a subject line:



Bah.

That's a subject line??

Yep!

Lots of 'em in that category, news snippets for a title, then a short-short ad in the body of the text. This one probably takes the cake for longest subject though.

I get about 25 of them a day, the regular text sans spamfilter triggers seems to get through pretty well.

Hatespammerhatespammershatespammers...

She will love that you take this blue pill

Another one:

Clayton Doherty... What demonic and demarcate

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Subject: brittle on patagonia kin

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One of the funniest ones which I got was "learn to be a bisexual"



Errr...um....yes. You won't believe the amount of time this question comes up when you are errr..umm...courting..

maybe i need to start a separate thread just for this <blast eating> product:

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Just got this one:



You're negligent, nimh, and the whole world knows it! (What happened with that cashier from Scottsdale, anyway?)

(I'll forward it to you if you don't believe me.)

A little heads-up for everyone - this was in my inbox at my old Hotmail account. I've already forwarded it to Ebay and the FTC, but I figured I'd post it here too, so everyone could see what is making the rounds.

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eBay sent this message to (my email address)@hotmail.com.
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay. Learn more.
EBAY ACCOUNT PROTECTION SERVICE NOTIFICATION !

Dear (my email address)@hotmail.com:

Valued eBay Member,

We are contacting you to remind you that on 11 JUN 2006 we identified some unusual activity in your account coming from a foreign IP address :capitol.guatemala-203-pc.in ( IP address located in India ) . We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen and involved in fraudulent transactions, or that there were additional problems with your card.

According to our site policy you will have to confirm that you are the real owner of the eBay account by completing the following form or else your account will be marked as fraudulent , and will remain open for investigation. You will pay for the fees wich will result from the financial transactions between eBay and FIT ( Fraud Investigations Team ) .

https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&co_partnerId=2&pUserId=&siteid=0&pageType=&pa1=&i1=&bshowgif=&UsingSSL=yes

eBay's Privacy Policy and Law Enforcement Disclosure: We care deeply about the privacy of the eBay community and will protect the privacy of our members even while working closely with law enforcement to prevent criminal activity. If you are unsure about our privacy practices, please visit eBay's Privacy Central for more information.
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Here's another, supposedly from Chase bank (god, these people must think I'm retarded to fall for this. No offense to the retarded. :wink: )

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Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind you that on March. 14, 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with Chase Bank's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure. If you would like close your credit card account, please contact us, as soon as possible.

Login to your limit account and restore online access: https://www.chase.com/asp/services/update.php?account593236 This notification is part of the All-Electronic Program you enrolled in to receive your activity report online.

To protect the security of your account, Chase Bank, employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Chase Bank system for unusual activity.

If you're planning to change your e-mail address, sign-on to www.Chase.com, go to the Manage My Account menu, and choose Update Personal Profile to edit your Email Profile. To change your postal address, just use the same menu and choose Address & Phone Change.

If you use your work e-mail address, keep in mind some employers may block receipt of employees' personal e-mail. Please update your e-mail address at www.Chase.com -see instructions above.



Sincerely,
Card Member Services


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I killed her. But hey, you're anonymous on the Internet, so what you gonna do bout it?

Hey, I got one yesterday from the IRS. That's right, the Internal Revenue Service. Authentic logo and everything. It said my 2005 income taxes had been recomputed, and I am due a $63.77 refund. It wanted me to fill out a "tax refund form" which included listing my Mastercard or Visa credit card number where the refund could be credited.

Hilarious!

These phishers are just amazing. It's just downright funny sometimes with these emails. "Just follow the link below and verify your information by re-entering it all and we'll yada yada yada."
Considering I have no cards or accounts with Chase or an Ebay account, it wasn't too difficult to figure those out. That, and those business do not ever send emails like this.
I get these so frequently that I got the fraud forwarding addresses for the FTC, all the major banks in my area, all the credit card companies, the IRS, Ebay, PayPal, and pretty much everyone else I could think of. I keep the list on my computer so I can just copy and paste the fraud department for any emails I get like these.
What a joke.

tsa, i did get one like that from AmEx, which was actually legit. since i didn't respond, being on a trip at the time, they also left me a phone message. i think a good rule of thumb is, if the links that supposedly go to xxx.com/etc actually point to something else, like 247.016.183.55--i just made that up--then it's not legit.

Well, I know these are fake because I don't have an account or a card with Chase nor have I ever done more than browse Ebay. If either of those is legit (and they are getting very good at faking them, so even if the link text matches the destination, you still can't fully trust it) then they will contact me after they get the forwarded messages I sent them.
I spent quite a bit of time looking into phishing a little while ago, and most companies will not send you emails like these anymore because of the phishing problem. They will either send you a letter or call you, or if they do send an email, it will ask you to go to their website and log in that way to resolve any issues. It's just my opinion, but any companies that are still sending out legitimate emails in the format of the ones I got should really get thier sh!t together.