They're definitely using more social engineering with spam

[thewayne]

Just got two alleging to be from Verizon Wireless. I actually opened them, they had my "billing statement", which I did not open, one of which claimed I had a $900 balance owed.

I opened them because I just bought an iPhone 4S and thought it might actually be related. I had it shipped to my parent's in Phoenix in vain hopes that it would arrive while I was in town. It didn't, so they had to turn around and ship it to New Mexico.

Here's a couple of suggestions to would-be spammers. First, if I see something alleging to be from someone with whom I do business, if I see dozens of To: addresses in addition to mine, that's a clue. Next, if you want to send me a traffic ticket from New York, it might be helpful if I had been in New York state in the last almost 40 years.

Now if only that Nigerian prince would return my emails....

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[silveradept]

Yeah - my boss told me about the scare she had when a pop-up try to make her believe that she had viruses on her computer and to download their virus payload in the name of cleansing the viruses.

Thankfully, she figured out that because her anti-virus software didn't say it, she should be suspicious of it...but someone further along in the panic mode might not have let that bit of data filter down and act on it.