Tuesday, November 25, 2014

AmEx SPAM

by Michael Seese

What's that old adage?

If at first you don't succeed,
try
try
try
try
try
try
try
again.

Yesterday's SPAM found 5 messages in my inbox. Today it was 7.




On the surface, the email looks reasonably convincing.



But, a few things stand out. So to give these guys the MST3K treatment:

1. The From: is a8400592e@michaelseese.com   Wait... what?

2. The To: is AmericanExpreco@welcome.aexp.com  So I'm sending an email to American Ex...preco?

3. Our records indicate that you recently used your American Express card on Novermber 06, 2014. Novermber? (Actually I didn't catch that one. But the spell check did when I pasted it in here.) OK, but this notification came over two weeks later.

4. For your security, new charges on the accounts listed above may be declined. Continuing the thought above, I've had no trouble using the card for the past 18 days. And what account listed above? Does anyone else see an account listed above? (In "fairness" to the spammers, you can see a big gap above "Dear Customer" which appears to be an image that my email program blocked. Still, if I can't see it...)

All in all, this one is pretty lame. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a D-minus.


2 comments:

  1. Sometimes spam is so obvious you wonder, why bother? The interesting ones are where they think they're being clever. Like taking your name from your email address and using it as a salutation, like they know you. Except I have an email address I use for online transactions called "shopping." So I get mail that says "Dear Shopping..." :)

    Oh spammers... Nice try. This one's definitely an omega out of 10.

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  2. But, it must work. Or they wouldn't do it.

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