May 25, 2005 07:24
OK, this just cracks me up. I get one of these every day or two, and I know they're all bogus. But I usually scan them, just to see how many glaring grammar, syntax, punctuation and spelling errors there are to tip off even the most clueless person that this is CRAP. Y'know, just for fun. :-) This one was particularly amusing:
While performing it's regular scheduled monthly billing address check our system found incompatible information which seams to be no longer the same with your current credit card information that we have on file. If you changed your billing information or if you moved from you previous address please follow up the link bellow and update your billing information: If you didn't change any of this information you still need to follow up the previous link and update your existing billing information because it means that our database regular scheduled update wasn't made correctly. Choosing to ignore this message will result in to a temporary suspension of your account within 24 hours, until you will choose to solve this unpleasant situation.
We apologies for any inconvinience this may caused you and we strongly advise you to update your information you have on file with us. Clicking https: // www. paypal. com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login_ you will avoid any possible futuring billing problems with your account.
When will they ever learn? I mean... sure, their English is better than my Korean (that's where the underlying URL originated if you clicked on the above URL), but they really oughta find someone who isn't ESL to write their emails if they want to fool a lot more people. ;-)