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Or, more to the point, how stupid do they think I am? I received the following from Intuit via email today:
Direct Deposit Service Informer
Communicatory Only
We cancelled your payroll on Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:18:32 -0430.
• Finances would be gone away from below account # ending in 1370 on Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:18:32 -0430
• amount to be seceded: 6137 USD
• Paychecks would be procrastinated to your personnel accounts on: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:18:32 -0430
• Log In to Review Operation
Funds are typically left before working banking hours so please make sure you have enough Finances accessible by 12 a.m. on the date Cash are to be seceded.
Intuit must reject your payroll by 4 p.m. Central time, two banking days before your paycheck date or your state would not be paid on time.
QuickBooks does not process payrolls on weekends or federal banking holidays. A list of federal banking holidays can be viewed at the Federal Reserve website.
Thank you for your business.
Regards,
Intuit Payroll Services
Now, seriously, if you were going to run a scam in a foreign country, wouldn't you invest a little to hire a translator who is fluent in the target language? I think the Google translator could do a better job than this, even if the original was in Elbonian. This isn't a phishing attempt, by the way. All the links go to a site that sounds (from the domain name) like a dodgy Internet sales site, so the sender is just dredging for traffic, most likely. Still, it's annoying, and rather pathetic.
I see this sort of email at least a few times a week, most of it far worse than this one. How often do you get them?
Will Rogers never met me.
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In the past I'd get them a couple times a week. Improvements to Yahoo Mail's spam filter have reduced them to a rare occurrence. My favorite is the one where a "barrister" contacts me because some rich guy in Outer Fruitopia has died and they wish to place 500 gazillion dollars in my checking account for safe keeping. All I need to do is give them my account number and of course they let me keep some cash for my troubles.
XAlan Burkhart
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Wow! You must have made millions from that opportunity. Can you lend me about 500k? Send me your ABA routing number and account number, and I can have my attorney set up a payment schedule at a really nice interest rate. Trust me...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I get these almost weekly. I have to start updating my SPAM filters to catch words like "barrister" that will never ever be used in a legitimate email..
John
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I think it's been mentioned here before, but it's actually an intelligent part of the scammers' filtering process. Because you are bright enough to spot that it's so poorly constructed it must be a scam the chances are that you won't fall for the actual scam. Conversely, anyone who falls for something this bad must be a right idiot, and that means a damn good target for the lying b'stards.
Sending the email costs nothing, but the follow up is generally labour intensive and this is a way of ensuring that their efforts are directed at worthwhile targets.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think it's been mentioned here before, but it's actually an intelligent part of the scammers' filtering process. Because you are bright enough to spot that it's so poorly constructed it must be a scam the chances are that you won't fall for the actual scam. Conversely, anyone who falls for something this bad must be a right idiot, and that means a damn good target for the lying b'stards.
That is a good point, I had never thought of this before.
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I think those English word are indeed good very and it not so probable they kneading a trarnslater and cheking for them grammer error. Should you deciding to visited there site you will indeed finding they are very effluent and good intention. I alsoed donted like you're aspiration to my country. I am Professor of eenglish at the departmenting of Elbonian university. I haved lots of money I want to give to oversea country and, Mr Roger White, it be my particular belief you and me can indeeding do busness.
Email me pleased at my Elbonian room so we can disscuss how best for me to sended moneyed to your account. I having chekked this replyed and grammered to you wid my Elbonian dictionary.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Roger Wright wrote: How often do you get them?
0.0 in the last years. I am very strict about where to go or even register in the web. If I do register somewhere, then I use a mail address set up only for that purpose. If then spam starts arriving over that mail address, I will delete my account on that website and kill the mail address.
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That is a good idea! I tend to use throwaway emails (Ten Minute Mail or Mailinator) to register with much the same result, but you get the info on which sites generate the spam. Hmm - that could be worth knowing. Any chance you keep a record?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Sorry, no. I'm too restrictive with registering on websites, so pulling out the plug has not been needed very often. Thinking about it, I am registered at exactly three websites which I have been visiting for years.
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Good Grief! I'm registered with more than that just to pay my monthly bills!
Not including the doctor for prescription renewals / appointment booking, this place, the credit cards, paypal, ebay, and a bunch of microsoft stuff.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Oh! Ebay. I almost forgot that. So it's four now.
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They're targeting the 1% with this scam. The total retards!
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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