An email scam

I was expecting an email that never arrived, so I checked my junk folder.

In there, I found this:

Sender shows as "URGENT Notice", title is "ATTN: Important Notification".

There is a zip file attached.

I'm actually disappointed and offended by the lack of effort that's gone into this scam. Too many people these days just can't be bothered. They need a swift kick up the behind to try harder. I am actually upset by this, because I can't believe there are people who are so unmotivated in life that they can't even be bothered to pay any attention whatsoever to detail.

Starting at the top. Nobody has an email address called 'URGENT Notice'. Nobody says 'ATTN: Important Notification'. When its an invoice, they will either give an invoice number, a summary of the item it is for, or some other short but meaningful description.

Then, even worse, there's the Dear firstname.surname bit. They've obviously got that from my email address, which takes the form firstname.surname@provider.co.uk. If I'd done business with them, they would not have my name in their database as just the first half of my email address. They haven't even bothered to parse it and seperate out the two parts, that's just lazy. Its one line of code to do it in any programming language.

Then there's the grammar. Its so far beyond wrong that its not even wrong, its become right, in a parallel universe.

They apologize? How dare they? I never do business with the US. I don't want to risk the crazy import/export duties. Except for things like web hosting, where there are no invoices because you pay up front.

Still on the subject of apologizing, you don't apologise, or apologize, for threatening legal action. You just state your position as coldly and methodically as you can.

I'm glad they are sufficiently incompetent as to make it impossible for anyone with any sense to fall for it, but at the same time I'm genuinely gutted that this is what the world has come to. People who can't even be bothered to get the basics right in whatever venture they attempt.

 

Feel better now Clue?

Jenny

 

I get emails from 'Amazon' with an invoice attached for my recent order from senders like 'harry123 @ yahoo.com' and then there's the ones from couriers with information attached about stuff they're delivering that's never been ordered. I've never had any telling me I've won a foreign lottery, from beautiful foreign women wanting money for the air fare to come and marry me, etc., just dodgy ones with attachments.

 

Don't bank with Barclays do you Clue?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26106138

 

Perhaps they should have got a copy of:

 

I did once, but then I figured I'd enjoy lots of things more than dealing with Barclays. Examples include:
* Extracting my own eyes using sharpened bamboo canes
* Disembowelling myself using rusty 6 inch nails (which incidentally, I once nearly did, but that's another story)
* Poking angry wild animals with a stick

 

The trouble is that if many of the postings on here are anything to go by, then, many people would not realise that the grammar and spelling on the Email ARE incorrect.
But, then, there are many who do not know the difference between giving an apology and saying one is sorry.

 

The difference between the grammar on here and the grammar in an email that is purporting to be 'official' is that on here, we are just chatting informally. There is no reason to meticulously check everything before hitting post.

If you send an email that you want to be taken seriously, then you draft it, proof read it, reword it, check it again, and generally make absolutely sure it is right. You don't just rattle the keyboard then hit send.