2014-03-11

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2014-03-11 07:48 pm
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An unusually-clever scam email.

HubbellSimply CompassionateDeath notificationWe would like to express our deepest sorrow for the untimely death of your beloved friend and inform you about the life service celebration that will take place at Hubbell Funeral Home on March 10, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.Please follow this link to get funeral invitation. Please be there to honor the memory of your friend with her closest people.Our best wishes and prayers,Daniel Langley,Funeral home assistant99 North Indian Rocks Road | Belleair Bluffs, Florida 33770Phone 727-584-7671 | Fax 727-584-1073

It’s such an unpleasantly well-crafted scam. A third of the American East Coast probably knows someone in Florida who might be expected to turn up dead; Florida’s got a lot of older folks and a very healthy crime industry. The victims jump to some conclusion as to who died, click on the link in a panic in hopes of confirming the omitted name, and get infected with whatever malware the site’s got.

Straight-up villainy. To add to the plausibility, they even used the name and address of a real funeral home, which has been getting panicked calls.