I got this email:
From: staff@estey.com
Subject: Email account utilization warning.
Dear user, the management of Estey.com mailing system wants to let you know that,
Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next
three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your
account information.
For more information see the attached file.
Have a good day,
The Estey.com team http://www.estey.com
Nice try :)
Re:Going around
dws on 2004-03-03T16:09:10
Damn. I got one of these, apparently from one of my domains, mailed to an account on a different domain.
Do not rule out incompetence.
schwern on 2004-03-03T10:44:11
These are the same guys that, don't understand, proper use of, a comma. Or how many spaces go between words.
I swear, if virus authors learned to use a grammar checker we'd all be in deep trouble.Re:Do not rule out incompetence.
gav on 2004-03-03T13:42:04
Now that virus writing is a money making operation, how long will be it before they realize that hiring a copy editor to fix up their messages is money well spent?Re:Do not rule out incompetence.
chromatic on 2004-03-03T17:57:08
I'd probably fall over if I received an e-mail from a working system administrator with proper grammar and spelling!
Dear user of Collapsar.net,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
For more information see the attached file.
Cheers,
The Collapsar.net team http://www.collapsar.net
Re:I got this variant:
vsergu on 2004-03-05T15:51:26
It's even sillier if you're in a TLD that has a more complicated hierarchy. I've seen references to similar messages about www.wi.us and www.org.br. Apparently the virus just takes the last two segments of the host name in the e-mail address to construct the web address.