Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Lame social engineering attempt I received this morning

Why not just be up front and say “Tell me everything about you so I can steal your identity?"  A refreshing break from the actually clever SE ploys of late.

From: Customer Service <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, August 23, 2011 5:29:12 PM
Subject: Your Yahoo Accont Update

Y!MAILThis exercise is to confirm account in use to avoid shut down, We require you to reconfirm your account by completing the details below after hitting reply button. Ac count will be de-activated and erased from our database if no response in 72hrs.      

User Name: .............................. .............................. ...................

Password: .............................. .............................. ......................

Date Of Birth: .............................. .............................. .................

Country Or Territory:.................... .............................. ................

Copy right 2011


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