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Web based mail and poor quality phishing for IE7

Posted by eileenb on August 14, 2008

This didn’t arrive through my Exchange account as it would have been trapped immediately as a phishing message.  This spam message (with a link to a virus) arrived on one of my old Web-based mail accounts.  Here’s a snip of the mail:

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1: We don’t have an admin@Microsoft.com email address

2: lnes@hot2trot isn’t my web based email address

3: MSN Featured offers doesn’t try to get you to download IE

4: the Hyperlink points to an .exe file on a domain (Italian) where the home page is under construction

5: We’re trying to get you to try the beta for IE8 not IE7 :-)

 

So on a scale of 1 to 10 for quality, I’d give this one a 2.  I wonder what rubbishy malware the .Exe file would try to install onto a machine? but as I don’t have a spare, trashable machine to play with, I think I’ll give it a miss this time. 

At least the spelling is ok though – which is more than could be said for some phishing messages I’ve seen in the past…

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