SAMPLE BANK SCAM EMAIL

Chris Botterill

I’ve seen a lot of these emails floating around lately so I thought I would post a sample of what a scam email looks like.  There are several things that stand out that catch your eye right away.  The most noticeable components are:

  1. The @yahoo.com domain email address.  No professional will use and @yahoo.com address if they are requesting information on behalf of a bank – no bank would request personal info by email anyways!
  2. A crap-load of spelling and grammar errors (even worse than my spelllingg!)
  3. Asking to re-confirm information that they make no reference to anywhere previous in the email.  If you are going to re-confirm something, shouldn’t you see what you are being asked to re-confirm first?

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