Spammed!

11:04 am Random Helpful tips

We got hit here at the FCC office yesterday, and the email replicated itself until FCC reached it’s SMTP relay limit, locking all staffers out of outgoing emails for 24 hours. We don’t know who took the original hit.

I got this email today, with a zip file called e-ticket attatched:

Dear customers,
Thank you for using our new service “Buy airplane ticket Online” on our website.
Your account has been created:

Your login: bdopkins@fcchudson.com
Your password: PASSHZPW

Your credit card has been charged for $901.75.
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website you get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the airplane ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to take off for the journey!

Kind regards,
Northwest Airlines

I googled it and found the scoop here. Maybe this is what happened yesterday? Someone understandably freaked out about a charge on their credit card and clicked the zip file in a panic?

 

3 Responses

  1. Hannah Says:

    that one, though well done is really vicious.

  2. Erin Says:

    How annoying!

  3. Brandy Says:

    I know ding, right? Well done and totally nasty. Sorta well done; they misspelled printer- and while I should be the last to throw spelling stones, I think it’s funny that they missed that when they thought this through so much.

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