A warning appeared in my mail box this morning. Writing a scam must be kind of an art – you obviously cannot offer that much information and yet you must convince the recipient you are attempting to address a very specific problem. I am tempted to write back and ask which of my accounts has generated this concern, but it is probably better to just ignore the request.
From emailaccount@antivirus.com
Important notice, harmful virus was detected in your account which can be harmful to our subscriber unit, you are to enter your password here{_______}to set in an anti virus in your user account to clear up this virus so we do need your co-operation in this, because providing us with this personal information we enable us insert in your account information into our anti virus machine for clean up. We are sorry for the inconveniences this might have cost you.
After 48 hours of providing this information you are advise to change up your password.
Failure to do this, we are sorry to let you know that, your account will be deleted immediately to prevent it from arming our subscriber unit.
Fellow fish and “subscriber units”, beware the lures of the phisherperson.
