First Phish

2005-06-08

I've just received my first phishing email to my work account - a pain as it indicates my name's now on some spamtankerous list. I've pasted it below: it gives us one more reason why people should learn to read and write properly, as anyone could then tell there is no way it would come with a corporate seal of approval. "thank you for co-operation" indeed.

_Dear HSBC Bank member ,

Technical services of the HSBC bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following link to start the procedure customers data confirmation.

https://www.ebank.us.hsbc.com/servlet/com.hsbc.us.ibank.signon.Logon

We present our apologies and thank you for co-operation.

Please do not answer to this email - follow the instructions given above.

This instruction has been sent to all bank customers and is obligatory to follow._