How to Identify Email Spam
Posted: September 24, 2012
© Cowpland - Fotolia.com[/caption]Spam filters may not always work. Here are some tips on how to identify whether an email is spam or not.
© Cowpland - Fotolia.com[/caption]Spam filters may not always work. Here are some tips on how to identify whether an email is spam or not.
I received the following email message recently. Actually, it went to my spam folder, but other recipients may not be so fortunate — or so discerning about its deceptive nature. But if you read carefully, you’ll find plenty of clues that the writer is not a native speaker of English, much less an FBI agent. My editorial interpolations are in brackets.
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Daniel McMullen (Special Agent in Charge)
Attn: , [Mac, you forgot to fill in my name, or a generic term.]
This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors. [The Intelligence Monitoring Network System could be a brand-name system meriting initial capitalization, but it also could be -- and is, according to an online search -- a phrase that comes up only in reference to its inclusion in this message, a classic example of the Nigerian email scam. Furthermore, Rampant Initial Capitalization of Very Important Things, also seen in the phrase “Transaction with Impostors,” is a common occurrence in email-scam content.]
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