A Short Interlude

The other day, I looked at my spam folder in my email, and found the following email:

Three things I noticed: 1) I've never seen a USPS man ever use an @expostarter.com address; 2) I've never seen a manager ever put "manager" into his name - i.e. I've never seen anyone say "Manager Noah Wallace", just "Noah Wallace"; and 3) This person has bad English. Missing apostrophe in "couldn't", "to" and "you" connected ("toyou"), bad spelling/grammar in "to you address" ("to your address" would be correct), and "at 15th August" not "on August 15th".

Obviously fishy. Especially when they want you to open some link that goes to some unknown site. So it went into my spam folder - no harm done.

Well, obviously they think I'm gullible, because they tried it again not long after:

Maybe I like the name Michael Willis better? Hmm...I still don't think I'll click.

But, of course, they wouldn't leave me alone:

What cracked me up the most was the subject: "Unable to delivery". Yep, they don't have good grammar.

But of course, that won't satisfy them:

Maybe they think I'll take more kindly to FedEx scamming? And couriers instead of managers? Of course, the message body is still almost exactly the same, grammar errors and all.

Then, today I looked in my spam folder again, and sure enough:

FedEx and USPS didn't work, so now, it's on to cargo.usa! Never mind that the email address is an address from England...and they still think the package arrived at September 6th and not on September 6th...

If the scammer's goal was to make me laugh, he succeeded in his goal. If that wasn't - well, all I can say is that clicking his links was the last thing on my mind.

I hope you enjoyed that!

Casey