SPAM email first..for me

katlan

14 years ago

Wow, how's this for a SPAM email? WTH?

Dear Customer,

FLIGHT NUMBER A45-281

DATE & TIME / JUNE 24, 2012, 10:117 PM

ARRIVING: NEW YORK JFK

TOTAL PRICE : 483.33 USD

Please download and print out your ticket here:

DOWNLOAD

Amercian Airlines

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chloecat
14 years ago
Paris to New York... Weird.
dedtired
14 years ago
Did it really say "Amercian" Airlines rather than "American"?

Also the arrival time is 10:117 . Strange.

I'm sure you had the sense not to try to download the ticket. Was it in your Spam box?
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katlan
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14 years ago
No! it was in my regular email. I noticed all the misspellings also. And, I didn't book a flight to ANYWHERE, haha.

You would think they would at least spell check first.

These people piss me off.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
Yes that is one that has been going around, they use various airline names. The infection is in the attached document.
breenthumb
14 years ago
I got a ticket to Seattle earlier this week too. I think it was from Delta and subject line suggested I had already paid for the enclosed eticket. But the airline name was in quotation marks.

You know, I'm getting more spam than ever (after getting virtually none for years) and what I'm getting is related to things I might have checked out on line at some time--not the actual brands but medical or hospital related. And I did check out the Seattle newspaper and a few hotels back in December for a program my DD went to see. I think its Google related.
joyfulguy
14 years ago
If you're to leave at 10:117 (that last being7/10s of a second, I guess) ...

... it looks as though this may be a "fly-by-night" project!

ole joyfuelled (but not going on a long flight)
iowagirl2006
14 years ago
I got one of those as a text message
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14 years ago
breenthumb COULD be right....didn't Google recently change their privacy policy. I seem to be getting more spam lately, too. Maybe it's time to change my search engine....
sushipup1
14 years ago
Your search engine has NOTHING to do with the spam you get in your email. Most of your spam you can blame on your good buddies who forward emails to 100 of their closest friends without stripping off the email addresses.
cynic
14 years ago
Google does track your searches and your choices. They use it to choose ads for you and who knows what else. I quit using Goog a while back.

Definitely your/our "friends" (and I use that term loosely) contribute to spam issues who refuse to bcc, but additionally people shoot themselves in the foot by opening spam. Why would you? You're just asking for more. And the fact is, you'll get it. If I have a pretty good reason to believe something is not spam I'll open it (never attachments and never with Microsoft products) but when I see things like this I know it's spam and I won't open it. Want to cut your spam? Quit opening them! It's like telemarketer slime calls. When you answer, you invite more.

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