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Sometimes they're nearly believable

snberk341 28th Jul 2009

I'm as suspicious about these spam letters as the next
person - to the point that that I've trashed legitimate
email questions. But, every once in awhile, one of
those spam mails is crafted well enough and - more
importantly - coincidentally is coming from
(supposedly) a company that I might actually be doing
business with. Sometimes, on occasion, I am looking
at a message and thinking that this time it might be
legitimate. Then I check the embedded email link.

I suppose I am talking more the fake security alert time
emails, and not the 'so-and-so has died and left you a
ginormous $ of an estate' .

I came across an alert the other day, supposedly from
a bank, that claimed it was a security reminder - told
me that no action was required on my behalf,
just to be careful about clicking email links. And if I
had any questions I should fill in the form at this link.
And of course it was that form that was the culprit.
Reverse psychology. Since it claimed to be coming
from a bank I do business with, I could see how falling
for this would be easy.

I tried forwarding the email to my bank's security
department, but my email provider bounces these back
to me - since their system identifies them as spam.
Ironic.