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Webmail Service Provider scam

Here’s a variation on the “Please view my resume” and “Amazon shipping label” scam I just received (again): it’s a message, claiming to be from my webmail provider (absolute proof that it’s a scam in my case, because I’m the webmail provider!) requiring me to re-validate my — unspecified — account by opening the attachment.

Yeah… right.

In this case, it’s a straight phishing scam aimed at stealing your identity and your webmail account, wherever you have that webmail account (your workplace, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc).

The usual stuff still applies: poor English, literal spelling and really obvious grammatical mistakes, etc.

Here’s an example of the spam message:

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