Fake Confirmation Email from Tara Bartholomaios (Mrs.)

This was very interesting.  You probably go to a lot of sites and you may sign up at a lot of sites, or for email courses.  Confirmation emails are quite common in my test inbox, just as they may be common for you.  Here is an example of a phishing email dressed up as a Confirmation.  Note the vagueness of the message.  My first clue was that they couldn’t be specific about what I had signed up for, and the second clue was that they were using an anonymous live.com email address.    My second clue was the overabundance of detail about the signature of the purported sender.   Why no detail about what I may have won, but the specific honorific by which the sender wished to be known “Tara Bartholomaios (Mrs.).”  Presumably all the other Tara Bartholomaios’s I may know are ruled out by her attention to detail.

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Re: Email confirmation for visiting our websites!Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:10 PM
From: “verify.details6172@live.com” <verify.details6172@live.com>Add sender to Contacts To: verify.details6172@live.comDear Website Visitor,

Thank you for visiting one of our Promotional Websites! As the hourly winner on one of our various promotional websites, a set of Lucky Numbers has been generated and sent to you by email. Your Lucky Numbers are: 06-08-20-39-41-47.

CONTACT: The Processing Manager to claim Prize.
Email: data.59@live.com

Please, forward your Your Lucky Numbers {06-08-20-39-41-47}, Name, Address and Phone No., and Your Favourite Website to the above Email [ data.59@live.com ] to claim Funds. Thank you!

Regards;

Tara Bartholomaios (Mrs.)