“More Sophisticated Spam”

You know the spam houses have merged their databases with those used by the junk 'snail mail' services when the spam you receive is totally personalized and customized for the receiver.

Date: 5/30/06 2:47 AM
Received: 5/30/06 2:47 AM -0400
From: rblackburn@mortgagesprocessing.com (Robert Blackburn)
To: <my email address> (Seth Dillingham)

Dear Seth,



Our office is attempting to follow up with you in regards to your MYSTIC Home.

Your home is located in the 06355 streamline refinance zone and qualifies for a payment reduction of $48780 (which is a 38% savings per month) over the next 24 months.

Our Service is Free of Charge to the homeowner and we require No Checks of any kind with Zero Upfront Fees.

Please call our office at 1-866-570-0858 we are standing by to serve you.


Sincerely,


Debra Masson
mortgagesprocessing.com – MYSTIC Office
6303 Owensmouth Ave
10th Floor ME-15
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
d.masson@mortgagesprocessing.com
1-866-570-0858





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This piece of spam contains my office phone number, my home address, and my zip code! This is much more sophisticated than the spam of the old days.

On the other hand, they clearly don't know everything about us. We've been renting the same house for almost eight years.

Still, I can see how this extra information could easily persuade people to think the message was legitimate. If I owned this house, the biggest clue would be gone and all that would be left would be the fact that I received a dozen copies of the same message. ;-)