Re: Fwd: Security: Your Online Banking Account is Blocked

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, David Lodge wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:43:40 -0000, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> > Anyone tricked?
> >
> > What language is this anyway?!
>
> A while back I went through a period of correcting phishers and 419ers  
> spelling and grammar and then sending it back with a mark out of 10. None  
> of the them ever got more than around 5... Then I got bored with it.
>
> It's one of the words of advice I give to people as a sanity check for  
> whether something is a scam: look at the quality of the English; if they  
> use bad English or American English (when a UK company) then it's  
> generally a scam and should be consigned to /dev/null. As most UK  
> companies subscribe to the plain English campaign and pay people to  
> quadruple check every message that goes out.
>
> Of course, when the scammers get somebody with a better knowledge of  
> English this detection tactic will not work anymore :-)
 
I have a better rule you can tell people.

Anything sent to you by email is a scam.

If you see something that you think isn't a scam, that you need to 
follow up on, phone up the company and talk with them.

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