Thursday 31 August 2017

Spammers and scammers

I received this email recently and thought it might be fun to tear it to shreds correct it.

Of course, it is low-hanging fruit, badly composed, badly written and an obvious scam, which leads me to believe that the sender(s) are amateurs and probably the kind of chaps who sit in internet cafés in small African towns, churning them out daily. And yes, such people do exist.

The link in the email is to a compromised website that has a fake Apple sign in screen, if you hover the mouse over it you can see that it is not https://appleid.apple.com. I have frequently said that emails from institutions requesting you login to an account should not contain such links, you should always be required to type the address in a new tab but that's just a bee in my personal infosec bonnet.

So here is the email as seen in my spam folder:


This is an automated email, please do not reply

Dear Customer  *Would use your Apple ID and normal font 

For your protetion protection, your Apple ID has been automatically disabled.
we We have detected unauthorized login Attempts attempts to your Apple lD from other unusual IP addresses and/or locations,.
Please verify your ldentity identity.  *spacing 
today or otherwise your account will be remain disabled due to concerns we have for the  in order to maintain the safety and lntegrity integrity of the Apple Comunity community.
*insert line
What To Do Next:
we recommend that you Verify And Update You are required to confirm your  billing information  Apple ID credentials to proof prove the ID is yours, the account belongs to you. 
*insert line
From Apple Support. 
*insert line
Click here to unlock   Click here to reactivate your Apple ID
*insert line
Note : If this mail is on your spam in your spam folder please mark it as not-spam. its help us for better information for you  *nonsense
And if you can not If you are unable to clik click on the link please go to apple-id.service-termpolicy.com *does not exist


Thanks for choosing Apple, *wrong font  
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