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Ian MacCosley View Drop Down
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    Posted: Feb/22/2010 at 9:28am
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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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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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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I had a customer the other day get a spam e-mail selling windows 7 for 29.99.  He asked me to match the price, I said I would not match, but he should just buy from the web site in the e-mail.  He said "No I don't trust them with my credit card" I said "Exactly."  Guess you can't blame a guy for trying though.
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