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From: "UPGRADING SERVICES"
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Subject: Confirm Your Sonic.net Account Details
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:58:29 -0300
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UPGRADE YOUR SONIC.NET® InternetSM ACCOUNT NOW !!!
Dear Account User,

This message is from sonic.net® Internet SM message center to all
sonic.net® account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base
and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused sonic.net® account
to create more space for new accounts. You are advice to verify and
confirm your account details below to enable us upgrade our
sonic.net® Internet Service e.g. sonic.net E-mail, Password,and Address etc.
Anyone whofails to do his or her own will automatically
lost his/her own Account.

Thanks for using sonic.net® Internet SM
To prevent your Account from closing you will have to update it below
before three days from now!

              Confirm Your Account Details

Username:
Password:
Zip Code:

You will be sent a confirmation letter from sonic.net customer service
after our upgrading. Thanks for your understanding.
Customer Service Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or
sonic.net account before five days of receiving this warning will
lose his or her
account permanently.

THANKS
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

It a good thing the scammers cant learn grammar/spelling. There nearly as bad as me...

How come I never get these? I feel so left out. Im still waiting for my email from a Nigerian prince, but it hasn't come yet either.

I get this all the time on my own Unix box except what's funny is I'm both the superuser and the only user on the box and I don't have webmail on my system. I haven't seen the Nigerian scam either although that one seems to get people in for as long as I know.

Of course it's a phish. It's coming from Brazil.

I think Sonic moves its HQ to Brazil each winter.

I want that job!

Yeah, you can't actually reply to this message through mail.sonic.net any more. We've been seeing a lot more of these over the past few months.

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John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support

Nice!

It's clearly bogus, but people seem to fall for this stuff anyway.

Happily, very few Sonic.net customers actually fall for these things. At least not between when it's originally sent and we squash it.

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John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support