Bad phishing attempt

Jan 28, 2004

You know, if you’re trying to commit fraud and if you’re going to do it over the internet and if English isn’t your primary language maybe- hear me out, okay- maybe you should get a buddy who is a native speaker and has a passing familiarity with the culture to proofread your spam. I know, that’s crazy talk. See below:

From: support &lt;xxx@xxxxx.net&gt;
To: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.org
Subject: You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney!
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:58:55 +0300

You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from 
account Webmoney! It is necessary for you 
to contact employee FBI USA who has 
affairs with representation Webmoney in USA.
We have the decision of a problem and 
further the decision of a problem in regional 
court. The complaint has acted from ID 
828245830532. The full information on 
http://www.fbi-policy.com/webmoney.htm.

Impressive. no? Tucows has already pulled the registration info and the webhost has pulled the page so no one will get to enjoy the rest of this rather convincing professionally-executed scam.