Just like clockwork, I get these types of emails at least once a month. This time though, I decided that I’ll poke a bit of fun at these morons. Unfortunately (or rather fortunately) my ISP provider blocked anyone from sending to them. That’s ok, I just logged into my JadedTech email address and sent it from there. So here’s my response and including the full headers of the email address. Raw and unedited. It was a quickie response with little planning at all to the content.
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Wow, who would have thunk that such things existed on my Mountain cable
internet provider! Geeze, here I was thinking they were good at keeping
on top of such things. Well, guess I know better.
The world has been having hard times and I guess MountainCable.net has
been affected like everyone else. Sub-par spam software, not enough
anti-virus protection…heck, I’ve even been allowed to view porn while
surfing through their system (You’ll want to look up Brian Henry…..it’s
amazing stuff!)
So, I am surprised to see MountainCable.net support being outsourced to
Vietnamair.com.vn. I knew India was big for IT outsourcing but never once
though of Vietnam as being so interested in IT. I shall correct my
information immediately! Although I am also surprised that
Vietnamair.com.vn is hosted in Singapore! Wow, this world is truly a
Global Economy!
I’m sure glad you ain’t one of those scamming people from Nigeria. Those
guys are _real_ buggers, trying to get people to send them money. You can
read up on them at 419eater.com. Great stories there about people who are
aware of such tactics and how they can prevent from being scammed for
their life savings.
So, in keeping with the spirit of being ‘above board’ and ‘legal’, I have
taken the liberty of including the full-headers of your email address and
replied to all known authorities and reporting agencies as well as The
Dean Blundell show (www.edge.ca) because I think it should be well and
duly noted that Vietnamair.com.vn provides such a great service as to
offer to validate our email address and passwords on behalf of
MountainCable.net.
And so, in complying with your request, please find my email address and
password below. Note, the email address you sent to is merely an alias
and only the one listed below is my _true_ email address.
email address:
douchebagscammer@mountaincable.net.tv.whereever.omygodthisisalongemailaddress.com
Password: password.
(Do NOT forget the “.” at the end, otherwise you’ll lock out my account
and I NEED my emails to surf the Interwebs!!!”
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:07:54 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Termination Of Your MOUNTAINCABLE.NET Webmail Account.
From: "WEBMAIL VIRUS ALERT UPDATE" <reservation.sfo@vietnamair.com.vn
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Dear User,
Termination Of Your MOUNTAINCABLE.NET Webmail Account.
We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our system, due to the fact
that it has come to our notice that one or more of our subscribers are
introducing a very strong virus which is spreading really fast into our
system and it is affecting our network.We are trying to find out the
specific user. Please you are advised to change the password on your
account in order to prevent any unauthorized account access.
All Mail hub systems will undergo regularly scheduled maintenance. Access
to your e-mail via the Web mail client will be unavailable for some time
during this maintenance period. We are currently upgrading our data base
and e-mail account center i.e homepage view. We shall be deleting old
accounts which are no longer active to create more space for new accounts
users. we have also investigated a system wide security audit to improve
and enhance our current security against virus and spammers.
In order to continue using our services you are require to update and
re-confirmed your email account details as requested below. To complete
your account re-confirmation, you must reply to this email immediately
and
enter your account details as requested below.
Information Required
Full E-mail Address:
Username :
Password:
Failure to do this will immediately render your account deactivated from
our database and service will not be interrupted as important messages
may
as well be lost due to your declining to re-confirmed to us your account
details.
We apologize for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this
period, but trusting that we are here to serve you better and providing
more technology which revolves around email and internet. It is also
pertinent, you understand that our primary concern is for our customers,
and for the security of their files and data.
Hoping to serve you better.
Sincerely,
MOUNTAINCABLE.NET mail Support
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This is an Administrative Message from Mail server. It is not spam. From
time to time, MOUNTAINCABLE.NET mail server will send you such messages
in
order to communicate important information about your subscription.
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Jaded Tech 