I just received the following email:
Dear Webmail account User,
This message is from Webmail account update Service team messaging center to all subscribers/webmail users. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center due to an unusual activities identified in our email system. We are deleting all unused Webmail Accounts. to create space for new ones.
You are required to verify your webmail account by confirming your Webmail identity. This will prevent your Webmail account from been closed during this exercise.In order to confirm your Web-Mail identity, you are to provide the following data;
First Name:
Last Name:
Username/ID:
Password:
Date of Birth:
*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners and this is the last notice/verification exercise.
webmail service Maintenance team.
Note to spammers and phishers. At least pirate Microsoft Office and run a damn grammar check before you send your email deluge. Oh, and most people put a space after periods and capitalize the first letter in a sentence. You must at least attempt to make your message look legitimate. I guess this strikes a particularly frustrated chord with me at the moment has to do with having to go to great lengths recently in ensuring that servers I am responsible for must now have all sorts of configurations to be considered legitimate. SPF records and other things to ensure that real, legitimate mail reaches people. All the while though, this crap continues to get through.