Sunday, March 6, 2016

Your account is already in the limit of use, please update your account

Today's spam message comes from accounts-support@service.com. I know parents sometimes give their kids strange names, but that one seems a little far-fetched. Anyway, accounts-support@service.com uses azuretest@kepo.onmicrosoft.com as an email address because even if your name is ridiculously unique, you still can't get it at Gmail.

The email itself is purportedly from PayPal and lets me know that something strange has happened, and they need me to log in so they can unsure my account. Honestly, that's the only reason I posted it. It's not good or unique in any way (although it did make it past my spam filters), I just found it kinda funny that the email promises exactly what you'll get if you click the link and give them your account details. They're not even trying to trick you: If you log in, your account will be as unsure as unsure can be.

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Unusual Activity Detected On Your Account


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Case ID : PP-762-068-564.

Dear Customer,

we is constantly working to unsure security by regularly examining the accounts on your system.

We recently reviewed your account and we need more information to enable us to provide a secure service.

Altough we can not collect this information, access to sensitive account features remains limited.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to restore access to your account as soon as possible.

how do i regain access to my account ?


Please sign in and follow the procedure for the removal of restriction by clicking the link below.

Sign in


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As usual, I've stripped out the link, but for completeness sake, I'll let you know that it goes to securemyaccountactivity.ml which is based in Mali.