[TR] Fw: Important - Tax refund form

Jim Muller jimmuller at rcn.com
Fri Sep 14 19:14:34 MDT 2007


On 14 Sep 2007 at 8:42, Joe Curry wrote:

> Has anyone else received one of these messages?

> Dear Customer,
> 
> Your Debit Card must receive a refund worth $109.30$ USD from Northern Star
> Credit Union

Not that one specifically, but I receive stuff like this all the 
time.  One tip-off is the extraneous "$".

Of course the ultimate tip-off is when it reads:

To: undisclosed recipients
Dearest undisclosed recipient,
  Please pardon the intrusion this request to your urgent reply.  I 
represent the Treasurer's Office of a company for which my brother 
died and left $10,100,022 in UK dollars in an account which...

If you use a POP3 email client, Popfile is a very good spam filter.




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Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
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