Spammers & Morons…
February 25th, 2009
So I’m strumming along working on a few projects when I receive a heated email from an enduser:
Please get these people off my can! I keep deleting them and they KEEP writing about this scam of an “emergency” almost everyday! Can you possible [sic] block it? I am soooo sick of it appearing in my inbox day after day. Thanks
The crux of the message is:
Bank of Montreal Security Alert
An attempt to access Online Banking was denied on:
Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 at 1:04:26 EST
Access was denied for one of two reasons:
Incorrect attempts to access and Login failures.
Signing on from a different location or device different from your location and your IP address.
I sent a message back suggesting the enduser email their SSN and contact info to the bank and suggested they apologize profusely for inconveniencing them. I also mentioned that, in addition, they should click on that link right away but since this is probably very sensitive information, I suggested doing this in the privacy of their own home. Wow, you would think an account holder would WANT to keep their records up to date. I personally only shared my bank’s account info with about 50 close friends on Twitter. (Was that a bad idea?)
Really, I’m not sure what the big deal is about this. I mean, whenever I’m registering at porn sites, I usually use a bogus Hotmail account, not my work email account. *sigh*
On another note, I was “summoned” to one of the higher-up offices to “address a very important email issue.” Since that sounded like something I should take care of right away, I took the shorter of the two longer routes to get across the complex (I stopped for only one cup of coffee instead of my normal two). I get there and ask what the problem is only to find out “I don’t know how to create a ‘sent’ folder in email.” What. The. Fuck? (These are people who are paid three times as much as me whom are in charge of our company.) I quick sit down and get to work when I’m blasted with all kinds of questions related to printing, document storage, etc. I calmly turned around the asked the person if they’d like me to fix their email “problem” or if they’d like me to address one of the other 50 issues they mentioned to me? “Ummm, just fix my email, please.” (OF COURSE it’s the email that’s the problem! We won’t even mention “operator error.”) With the email “issue” fixed, again, I was blasted with a bunch of questions when my cell phone started beeping. Good thing my coworker sent me a text message right at that time to let me know the cafeteria was giving away free bagels.
Hey, I gotta eat, right?
