For us, this has to be one of the best spoofs ever. Why? Even the return address said AMEX. The ONLY give-away? A tiny grammar typo — and hover over the link. (It did *not* indicate it was going to take us to an AMEX site). What’s your current favorite? Please be careful. Don’t click on spoofed emails.
6) What’s Your Nomination for the “Spookiest Spoof Award?”
What is lacking on this email ID the name on the account and the last 5 did m digits of the card number.
That’s a good point too, Kevin!
Looks like a run-on sentence, and a comma where there should be a semicolon.
When I lived on the Chinese Myanmar border, I got a phone call one day. “this is the police”, the voice said, “we have intercepted a package with meth inside, addressed to you, you need to give us your bank information so we can examine your records.” At first I panicked and called the embassy to let them know I might end up in jail.
When I calmed down a bit I thought, hey wait a minute, I live in the Golden Triangle, we don’t IMPORT drugs, we export them! :) So I called back and say, go ahead, come and get me. They never did…