Fun With Phishing Scams Part 1: The Introduction

About a week ago, I woke up at 5:30am to get ready for work. I lay in bed for a couple of minutes, tinkering on my phone, and I checked my email. I got one of those phishing scams in my regular inbox, which was bizarre – they usually filter right to the spam folder! I don’t know why I felt like I needed to write this guy back… but read on.

fun with phishing scams

Here’s what I sent back to him:

Good morning Matheis!

This is great news – please let me know what you need from me to move forward.

Cheers,
steph

And it was on! I decided my whole purpose in life was to get this guy to email back as often as possible just to mess with him.

Click here to read his reply!

September 30, 2014

Steph

Technology

comedy, humor, phishing scams

Freelance illustrator Steph Calvert is an award-winning artist with 24 years of experience working as a creative professional. She is based in McDonough, Georgia, just south of Atlanta.

Steph Calvert has expertise as a children’s book illustrator. She is an expert surface pattern designer for art licensing and creates line drawings for publishing and product design. Steph has years of additional expertise as a mural artist, creating original art, and logo design for small businesses. She is currently querying literary agents with her first author/illustrator book projects.