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Seeker
fyi, I just received a different phishing email. Preposterously worded of course, but being received the morning after I had renewed my account was a bit weird.

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Dear Spamcop Webmail Subscriber

This message is to inform all our {Spamcop} webmail users that we will be
maintaining and upgrading our website in a couple of days from now. As a
Subscriber you are required to send us your Email account details to
enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.

Be informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not
functioning to enable us create more space for new users, You are to send
your mailaccount details which are as follows:

*User Name:
*Password:
*Date of birth:

You can also confirm your email address by logging into your account
at https://webamil.spamcop.net/ before sending us the required information.

WARNING: Any of our webmail user that refuses to send his/her verification
details within the next seven(7) days of receiveing this message and
failed to respond will be deleted immedately from our database.

Verification code: Spamcop:0090-009

Thank you for using Spamcop!
>From The Spamcop Support Team.
© Spamcop Support Team
g4mby
Remove the spelling and grammar mistakes and it might, just might make this one a little more believable. Like most phishes I receive the originators drastically reduce their rate of success with poorly worded content although the chances of catching out a SpamCop user with this must surely be nil!

Even SpamCop is not capitalised correctly. huh.gif
Farelf
A number of webmail services are currently being phished it seems and, going by the previous attempts, even a few SC account holders will fall for it. Sad, but seemingly inevitable. An interesting thing would be the 'drop-box' that is being used in such cases, the "Reply-To:" address.
Seeker
There were several clues that this message was bogus. A Reply-To address in South Africa, can't even spell "webmail" correctly in the URL! The text stinks of English-is-not-native-language.
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