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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 06:47 AM Mar 2015

an extremely bright phishing email (edited of course)

Delivered-To: MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS

Received: by DELETED with SMTP id jw9csp2630282wjc;
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:22:16 -0700 (PDT)

X-Received: by DELETED with SMTP id 68mr12045258ykp.61.1426501336160;
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:22:16 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path: <DELETED>

Received: from DELETED (DELETED. [DELETED])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 66si3852241yka.23.2015.03.16.03.21.38
(version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:22:16 -0700 (PDT)

Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of DELETED designates DELETED as permitted sender) client-ip=DELETED;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of DELETED designates DELETED as permitted sender)
smtp.mail=DELETED

X-Virus-Scanned: DELETED

Received: from DELETED (DELETED)
(authenticated bits=0)
by DELETED (8.14.3/8.14.3/3.0) with ESMTP id t2GALXh6019669;
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:51:33 -0430

X-Matched-Lists: []

Received: from DELETED ([DELETED]) by DOMAIN_DELETED (DELETED Webmail) with HTTP; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:51:33 -0430 (VET)

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:51:33 -0430 (VET)

From: EMAIL ADDY@DOMAIN_DELETED>

Reply-To: DIFFERENT_ADDY@DOMAIN_DELETED

To: jenn_REST_OF_EMAIL_ADDY_DELETED

Message-ID: <DELETED>
Subject: Good Day
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: DELETED Webmail
X-Originating-IP: DELETED

<span>Hello, Contact our diplomatic agent with your full delivery address And your nearest airport to land so that he can deliver the Package worth 2.7Million ; Name:Fred ugo</span><br>

*end of phishing email*


My email addy is NOT jennblahblah...... He or she obviously spammed hundreds/thousands/millions of email addies to get one victim.


Super intelligent phisher.

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an extremely bright phishing email (edited of course) (Original Post) steve2470 Mar 2015 OP
Bad spelling and poor grammar ManiacJoe Mar 2015 #1
If they wanted to weed out the smart ones... ChromeFoundry Mar 2015 #2
Sounds legit. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #3

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
1. Bad spelling and poor grammar
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:04 PM
Mar 2015

are done on purpose, according to what I have read. The purpose is to weed out the smart people so that the phishers deal only with the no-so-bright folks who are much more likely to be fooled.

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
2. If they wanted to weed out the smart ones...
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 10:33 PM
Mar 2015

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