Watch out for "Adobe" email

I've just downloaded the following message, which does not appear to come from Adobe:

Dear valued customers,

Adobe PDF is pleased to announce new version for PDF Reader which enable you to view, create, edit and print PDF documents. The PDF format as a global exchange document format is created by Adobe and is the most efficient way to exchange information. You can simply follow the following instructions to make your PDF Reader/Writer most updated.
1. Visit Abode PDF website or click this link: http://www [removed]


2. Download new version of Adobe PDF and get your application updated.

Thank you for choosing us, the worldwide leader PDF Reader.

Adobe PDF

Stay safe in 2010!

Thanks, but....

Is it just me? I can see several grammatical errors and idiomatic funnies in that text which immediately set off alarm bells.

"valued customers" is always a dead giveaway. The spammers don't know your name....

I screen all my email via MailWasher. This makes it simple to spot email which doesn't actually come from where it claims to come from - assuming that MailWasher's DNSBL lookup hasn't already tagged the message as spam.

just got a copy so seems to have got past block lists/spam assassin checks - reported as spam

Adobe has an auto-update feature so why are you even looking at what you know are fake emails.

I think you need a course in how to use your common sense. The rest of us would delete such emails, together with all the lottery wins and promises to hand over £26million from Nigeria.
Maybe you are very young or have no knowledge of the Internet? If that is the case, never reply to people you don't know by email or phone. Never hand all your personal details over to people you do not know. Don't fall for scams and if you are offered millions in return for PIN numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers etc - delete the email. If you have suddenly won a lottery or competition you did not enter - learn to use the delete key.
I have no idea why people keep falling for scams - maybe they are genuinely thick!
If you want to send me all your personal details and your bank account number and photocopy of your passport and driving licence I will tell you more. See how mad that sounds? Apply the same common sense to unsolicited emails, there is no need to warn everyone else, most have common sense.

I think you assume too much.
The OP appears to be aware of the danger. Nothing to suggest they have downloaded anything from it

Edited by deleted (Sun 10-Jan-10 18:32:34)

Thanks. I've been using the Net at home since '95 and for some years before in an educational institution. I posted to alert others to the risk. I have not suffered as a result of this spam/phishing issue, though experienced users and Net newbies can all make the occasional mistake. I noticed your post this morning, shortly after anothe phoney "Abode" email landed.

re: ..... there is no need to warn everyone else, most have common sense.

My grandad used to say that.... the trouble with common sense is that it ain't very common...

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shortly after another phoney "Abode" email landed
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Hmm, maybe a better spam filter is needed.

There was no need to be insulting. The OP was simply raising a warning flag; not asking for a lecture on Net Safety

Actually, I agree with that, I think that the OP was right to post a warning ot a potential problem for people to read and thus be prepared.
I really don't see the problem with that.

If the OP posted a really really stupid warning, well, it hard to think of one really, but something like, don't have any dealings with a solictor in Nigeria, no matter who he says he represents, then yes, it may be obvious TO US, but is not obvious to everyone!

Even if someone felt the OP had to be "corrected" then there are much more polite ways to do it frankly!

People do still fall for these simple and stupid traps, otherwise they wouldn't be bringing out fresh ones all the time! ! !

The OP was trying to be kind and warn everyone, can't it just be left at that?