Dumbest phish of the month award

I am thinking about starting a new feature here on ashimmy.com. The dumbest phish of the month award. Most phishes are pretty dumb and easy to spot. Especially if English is your native language. But don’t be fooled there are some phishes that are not quite as obvious. The will fool even some of us who are much more paranoid about this stuff.

Anyway, the inaugural dumb phish award goes to kenlad35@yahoo.com.  Ken wrote me the following email. It is actually pretty typical of the “your hotmail or windows live account will be closed” variety. Asking for username and passwords and stuff.  But Ken if you are going to make believe you are from Windows Live, maybe you should lose the yahoo email address and the little yahoo ad at the bottom of the email.

No matter what you do for a living, even a phisher, at least try to be the best you can be about it!

Dear Windows! Live Account User,   We encountered a problem with our database and a lot of records were lost, we are restoring our database to enable us serve you better. Your Windows! Live Account details are required so as to store in our database to keep your account active. Failure to do this will lose his or her account permanently. To update and enable us restore your account details in our data base to keep your account active, you are required to provide us the details below urgently. Click the reply button to enter details below .   ID:   Password :   Date of Birth:   Country or Territory:   Occupation:   Alternative E-mail:    Make sure the details above are correct to enable us restore your account details, this will help prevent your account from suspending or closing. Note: YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED.   Users have often told us that the more they use Windows! Live  Service, the more they discover its benefits. We'll keep working on making Windows! Live the best email service around, and we appreciate your joining us for the ride. Thank you, Sandra O. John E-mail :customer.care00023000@live.com The Windows! Live Team

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