Phishing for fun and profit

I still think if they are going to do this crap, the LEAST they could do is have some other dork spell check and/or grammar check these things so we all don’t know from the get-go that they are fucking morons. It reminds me of an essay I turned in for French class one time. I couldn’t be bothered learning the language, but I did spend about an hour looking up the french versions of english words in the dictionary and pasting it all together to make an almost completely incoherent paper with little regard for tense, plurals and all manner of boring language stuff. And yes, I got a “D” for that effort. Learned not to do that again (and also, don’t use masking tape to seal up packages you’ve peeked into. Dead giveaway, that.)

Received in the old email this evening: (italics are mine, of course)

WaMu Security Department experts observed on many user accounts violation of our site policy below:

# False or missing contact/personal information

# Falsifying or omitting your name

# Falsifying or omitting your address

# Falsifying or omitting your telephone number

Because of the fraudulous activity recorded in the last month hard security measures had been taken.

This measures are intended to verify the indentity and contact/personal information of your account.

# By ignoring this measures means that:

#You are no longer active on WaMu.com
# You are not the owner of WaMu.com account
# You lost or forget the password of your WaMu.com account

The consecuences of ignoring this security measures could be the suspension of your WaMU.com account, you will be noticed by e-mail about the requirements for reinstatement of your WaMu.com account.

You have been notifyed for this incoming mail and we expect you to complete the following form properly. (Rather sounds like my 3rd grade teacher!)

We are determined to focus on a single goal – reducing the amount of frauds and errors. (Yeah, don’t wanna have too many frauds, now)

We expect this measures to reduce frauds with 70% in the first phase.