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I just received my first Citibank scam email, and I thought I'd open it to see how artfully crafted the email is in order to get suckers to expose their private information.

Copied and pasted below is the text... honest!

Quote:

Thiss letteer was se-nt by_the_ CITI_bank sevrers to
veerify _your EMAIL_ adress_.
You muust clmepote this pcoesrs by clicking on_the_link
_below_ and enntering in the smmall winddow your CITI_bank
Atm_ full_card_nummber and _PIN_ that you_use on local Atm_Machine.
This_is donne for your percottion -0- becouse some_of our
members no lnoegr have acecss to their email adesesrds
and we must verify it.

I wonder if whoever sent this out believed that piece of funmail about only the first and last letters of the word mattering...

Pathetic!

I get emails like that all the time. Spam spelled badly. I think they do that because some filters now also go through the text and stop the spam like that (I think [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). I don't see any other reason why they would make the text look differently every time... :(

Legal reasons, probably. If anyone calls the police on them, they didn't ask for your credit card. Just a thought.

Naw... they just asked for your ATM number and your PIN. There's nothing they can get with that... can they? :D

I've reported it over to Citibank, which has already been working on this particular variant.