More phising scams

Don't let your friends & family fall for this crap. It looks good until you get to the bottom of the email where they put in a bunch extra spaces and crap words together that do not make a coherent sentence...

Remember the old saying: "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is."

This latest one is for free tax return services, including e-filing. Nice attempt to get people to give out a HUGE amount of personal information.

Please take the time to make sure your siblings and parents won't fall for this crap.

RJ

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Originally Posted by SPAM email

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Originally Posted by channelmaniac

Please take the time to make sure your siblings and parents won't fall for this crap.

RJ

::Whisp:: Why don't ya edit out the links so some of our resident mouth breathers don't go click click.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

::Whisp:: Why don't ya edit out the links so some of our resident mouth breathers don't go click click.

Maybe they need a lesson in "you don't click on phishing site links since your PC will most likey end up infected with spyware and trojans" :punchout:

I've always wondered, what is the purpose of all that nonsensical crap in an otherwise perfectly good scam email?
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Filler, makes the message large enough to bypass some types of e-mail filters.

Also, since it is mostly random jibberish it is harder for spam filters to fingerprint. Spam filters will look for key words and checksums to try and identify ::Spam:: , but different data returns different checksums so some of the ::Spam:: gets throught the filter.