ACCOUNT SUSPENSION SPAM

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It's titled: ACCOUNT SUSPENSION

The email goes:
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Dear Member,

Your Authorize account has expired. You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once!

To continue click here, login to your Authorize account and follow the steps.

Thank you for using Authorize!

Please do not reply to this email as this mailbox is not monitored and your reply will not be received

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In order to stop this type of spam from spreading, we first need to recoginze this for what is is spam and quickly hit the delete key.

This is a weak attempt at spam. Notice the sentence structure. 

The dead give away is the click here link, which I have re-routed away from the spam site, back to a safe site: the Tech Army.

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Ian MacCosley Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/05/2007 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 994	Quote Reply Topic: ACCOUNT SUSPENSION SPAM Posted: Feb/22/2010 at 9:28am
	It's titled: ACCOUNT SUSPENSION The email goes: --------------------------------- Dear Member, Your Authorize account has expired. You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once! To continue click here, login to your Authorize account and follow the steps. Thank you for using Authorize! Please do not reply to this email as this mailbox is not monitored and your reply will not be received -------------------------------- In order to stop this type of spam from spreading, we first need to recoginze this for what is is spam and quickly hit the delete key. This is a weak attempt at spam. Notice the sentence structure. The dead give away is the click here link, which I have re-routed away from the spam site, back to a safe site: the Tech Army.
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steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Member Joined: Oct/13/2009 Location: so cal Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Quote Reply Posted: Feb/24/2010 at 3:03pm
	It amazes me that spammers still do this, but apparently there are people that click the links on these emails. And that's why banks, etc, still have to have messages everywhere saying things like "we won't call you or email you asking for your bank account number, social security number, etc." As to me, I am always a skeptic!
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arwendt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/26/2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1270	Quote Reply Posted: Feb/26/2010 at 9:57am
	Shoot an email out like that to enough people and sooner or latter you are going to get some new person, or someone who is distracted, etc, and they are going to follow that link and enter their credentials and then instantly for the spammer it was all worth it.
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