{"id":36,"date":"2005-01-19T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/19\/good-thing-spammers-cant-master-basic-grammar\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T16:15:19","slug":"good-thing-spammers-cant-master-basic-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/19\/good-thing-spammers-cant-master-basic-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Good thing spammers can&#8217;t master basic grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got the following charming bit of spam today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLloyds TSB Group plc<br \/>\n25 Gresham Street<br \/>\nLondon EC2V 7HN<\/p>\n<p>Greetings,<br \/>\nI discovered a dormant account in my office, as Group finance director<br \/>\nwith Lloyds bank London. It will be in my interest to transfer this<br \/>\nfund worth $20,000,000 million dollars in an account offshore. If you<br \/>\ncan be a collaborator to this please indicate interest immediately for<br \/>\nus to proceed. Remember this is absolutely confidential. My husband<br \/>\ndoes not know about this risk taking. My family will be in shambles if<br \/>\nit burst out and i will also be in trouble aswell as lose my precious<br \/>\njob. Your contact phone numbers and name will be necessary for this<br \/>\neffect.<\/p>\n<p>Regards and respect,<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Wood.<br \/>\nGroup Finance Director<br \/>\nLloyds bank London.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If high level directors at my bank wrote like this, I&#8217;d be thinking about taking my business elsewhere.  Cynthia clearly needs to take a writing class (and a course in introductory logic wouldn&#8217;t hurt) as this has to be one of the least convincing variants on this scam that I&#8217;ve ever seen, and I&#8217;ve seen a <em>lot<\/em> of them.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the following charming bit of spam today: Lloyds TSB Group plc 25 Gresham Street London EC2V 7HN Greetings, I discovered a dormant account in my office, as Group finance director with Lloyds bank London. It will be in my interest to transfer this fund worth $20,000,000 million dollars in an account offshore. If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/19\/good-thing-spammers-cant-master-basic-grammar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good thing spammers can&#8217;t master basic grammar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/07\/more-implausible-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":0},"title":"More implausible spam","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"7 Jan 06","format":false,"excerpt":"I just got two copies of the same spam about 11 minute apart (never a good sign), and this one has a particularly bizarre premise. 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