On 7/31/2014 1:27 PM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:30:07 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> The one I got yesterday was really sweet. It's a series of 5 delivery
>> failure emails followed by a notice saying that the account is in
>> violation of the terms of service and my computer was spamming. That one
>> was pretty alarming. After checking my office computers, it appears that
>> the delivery failure emails were the setup and the real phish came
>> later. They almost got me that time!
>
> Unfortunately it does happen. I don't know what hubby did, but he
> never turns his computer off and it was spamming 24-7. I ignored the
> first couple of emails from my ISP, but finally called them to see
> what was going on and it wasn't easy to fix.
>

Like most good magic tricks and scams, you have to distract your mark
from what they should be really looking at. Normally, I'd just ignore
email from Hawaiian Telcom.

My step-mom's nephew from Sweden just married a gal from your fair city.
The strange thing is that her parents live on the big island and my dad
knows them. I can't begin to fathom how something like that happens in
this big old world.