Thank heavens for the poor education of cybercriminals!
If they had paid more attention to spelling and grammar at school (rather than mugging younger kids for their dinner money and inflicting chinese burns behind the bicycle sheds) then maybe some of their scams would be harder to spot.
Take this malware campaign that we are seeing being spammed out right now, for instance.
Subject: DHL notification
Message body:
Dear customer.
The parcel was send your home address.
And it will arrice within 7 bussness day.More information and the tracking number
are attached in document below.Thank you.
2011 DHL International GmbH. All rights reserverd.
The email doesn’t really come from DHL, of course. This is just the latest in a long line of instances where cybercriminals have distributed malware attacks posing as communications from a delivery firm…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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