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Tech > World's Lamest Credit Card Phishing Email

This email showed up with this professionally-crafted subject line.w

Attention! Several VISA Credit Card bases have been LOST!

Right. I'm sure if VISA got hacked their PR department would notify their customers in an email with ALL CAPITAL WORDS and exclamation points. I expected the first words of the email to be "OMG! We've been pwn3d! WTF?"

Spot all of the errors in the body of the email.

Good afternoon, unfortunately some processings have been cracked by hackers, so a new secure code to protect your data has been introduced by Visa. You should check your card balance and in case of suspicious transactions immediately contact your card issuing bank. If you don't see any suspicious transactions, it doesn't mean that the card is not lost and cannot be used. Probably, your card issuers have not updated information yet. That is why we strongly recommend you to visit our website and update your profile, otherwise we cannot guarantee stolen money repayment. Thank you for your attention. Click here and update your profile.