This came into my Yahoo! e-mail account today (this is a verbatim, cut and paste posting):
DEAR _citibank_ _Client_,
This_ LETTER was se-nt by_the_ Citicards sevrers to veerify your_ e-mail adderss.
You must complete this process by clicking on_the_link bellow and enntering
in the litle window_ your Citi-bank Atm/Debit card nummber and PIN that
_you use on Atm Machine. This_is _done_ for Your protection -p- because some of_our
memmbers _no_longer_ have access to their EMAIL addersses and we must verify it.www.yahoo.com/?HZGlDeM1bRTtpf0XhKkauN1TXM0Jbc
9TbOfO32QfUJTk0IituErYtuHptTbtUjl59CVdELrzwbVxUeOTo verify your e_mail _address_ and _access_ your Citibank_Online
account, click on_the_link bellow.nTtmlL5M4MYyHtVMqxIFc v7L2tHzcVoBN HZau5XyTV7Bd2oFA8
They’re kidding, right? No one actually falls for this, do they?
First of all, I don’t have any accounts at CitiBank. I’d rather bury my money in a coffee can in the backyard than do business with them. Secondly, this looks like the product of 100 monkeys and 100 typwriters before spell-check.
Human gullability always amazes me.
Well – that one was easy to see thru. I had one that said it was from PayPal awhile back, and it was really convincing. The only clues were that Paypal had warned about this sort of thing previously, and that the copyright date at the bottom was 2003 rather than 2004. It was so convincing that I really wanted to respond, and had a bad feeling in my gut for not doing so. Instead, I sent it on to a fraud address at Paypal – figured if it was real, they could get back to me.
People who aren’t really computer savvy are having a hard time with this stuff!