A bit of light relief before going back to more important matters.

I’ve received two emails in the last 24 hours, that must amount to the worst phising attempt in history.

Prezado cliente, address omitted ,seu e-mail está expirando. Você tem o prazo de (48 horas) para efetuar o procedimento de recadastramento. Caso não seja realizado esse procedimento, seu E-mail será automaticamente cancelado.
Para sua maior comodidade lhe damos o direito de escolher se irá reativar ou cancelar o seu endereço virtual.

Siga as instruções abaixo.

Recadastrar E-Mail
O recadastramento será efetuado na ativação do seu SMTP.
Para fazer a reativação do seu E-mail basta click no link abaixo.

Recastramento do E-mail ( address omitted )

Cancelar E-Mail
Caso queria cancelar essa conta será necessário desativar o SMTP ou esperar 48horas para o cancelamento automatico.
Para fazer o cancelamento do seu E-mail basta click no link abaixo.

Cancelamento do E-mail ( address omitted )

Now you should be able to spot the obvious problem with this email - it’s in Portugese - well the Brazilian varient of Portugese, which is a bit of non-starter.

What the email, from grupoarroba@email.com, is trying to tell is that my Gmail account is about to expire and that unless I click their link and give them my password, it’ll stop working in the next 48 hours.

Now being wise in the ways of phishing I’d ignore this anyway, but what makes this attempt rather amusing is that the sender has not even gone to the effort of trying to make the e-mail look as if its actually come from Google even though the email box to which is was sent and which it claims will expire is a Gmail account - no logo, not even a fake Google e-mail address.

In short, they might as well have sent an email that read ’send us your password, you thick bastard’ and achieve much the same effect.

Damn, even the phishers are getting dumber by the minute.

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