Industry-leading Spam Protection My Foot
I was reviewing my spam folders and happened to notice an e-mail supposedly from ecobanknigrplc@aim.com. Basically it was one of those, “Hey I’m some random African prince looking for an American carrier to help me get my inheritance.”
But this one had a twist.
“This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150? scam victims $100,000 USD (One Hundred?Thounsand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds.”
Wow, I bet this actually fooled quite a few people. “This e-mail must be legit because it talks about how people have been scammed!”
Anyway, long story short, I scrolled down a bit and saw this:
“Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail — Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.”
Hahaha, yeah… right!