Least successful spam tactic ever: Threatening to save people from AOL

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Spammers evidently live in caves. Whoever wrote the following phishing message must have missed out on the recent scandal over AOL's notoriously impossible account-cancellation process.

This spammer, trying to get victims' personal data, pretends to be AOL customer support, threatening to cancel the recipient's account. Little does he know that getting swiftly booted by AOL is the best thing that could possibly happen to its users. It's like being forcibly thrown west over the Berlin Wall.

The full spam, minus the link to a dubious phishing site, is after the jump.

Welcome to AOL Customer Support

Dear valued AOL member, It has come to our attention that your billing informations are out of order.

If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records so you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, any failure in updating your records will result an account suspension.

Please update your records before the 30 July 2006

Once you have updated your account records your AOL session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal . Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future problems.

To update your AOL records Click here .

http://billing.AOL.com