The Merging Unit of Email Accounts Operating Board

Never ceases to amaze me. I don't know if it's that a spammer/phisher will try even the most absurd and lame tactics to achieve their purpose, or that there really might be a substantial number of people out there who would fall for it.
This Phish-Spam dropped into my box recently....{with my comments}


Dear Account User,{thank goodness they remained professionally formal and didn't use my actual name}

VERIFY AND CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT TO AVOID CLOSURE !

This Email is issued by Customer Care Service of the merging unit of email accounts operating board. We have sent this email to you for safety. {ooooo....sounds so important. Not just "email accounts" but "the merging unit of email accounts operating board." Yet, have they mentioned the actual NAME of this business? This is a fine example of euphemistic Gobbledygook} }

We are having unnecessary congestion resulting from numerous anonymous registrations of various email accounts.{Numerous ANONYMOUS registrations...just like this letter}

Due to the congestion, we would be shutting down most email accounts which appeared anonymous and unused on our secret assessment unit. {more euphemism} Your Email account was among those to be deleted. This email is a notification for you to verify and indicate to us if you still want to keep and use this account.

To confirm your E-mail account, fill out your Login Informations below {Euphemism for "Give me your private information so that i can do something illegal with it}.
after clicking the reply button.


* User name: .....
* Password: .....
* Date of Birth: ...


Subject to Email accounts client protection policy, we will not access your email account. {No, but they will access your credit card accounts, and any other accounts they can find} We require your user name, password and date of
birth to que {obviously they don't know what a queue is, as they can't even spell it correctly} automatically on our secret assessment unit were every valid account appears to safeguard your email account from automatic deletion by our system.

Your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal if you fill out your Login Informations as listed above.

Warning!!! Refusal to this demand will suspended your Email account anonymously and your email account will be closed permanently without further notification on our termination date.{fear tactic; often used in politics and sales}

Thanks for your attention to this request.
We apologize for any inconveniences.

Sincerely,
Customer Care service - {no names of anyone or anything}
Email Accounts Operating Board.>>


Now, if you fall for any of this and lose anything, whether it be money or credit rating or otherwise, it's your own damn fault.