Jon posted a helpful link to a great 4-1-9 site, “4-1-9″ being Secret Service lingo for Nigerian-style phishing.

I wish there was an equivalent site for mortgage spam.

How likely is it that all of these home loan emails are on the level? Why wouldn’t phisher’s use the mortgage angle to collect bank data? The question came up as early as 2000 but I have seen no mortgage mail ripoff threads om Usenet or elsewhere.

Check out this beauty from today’s inbox:

THIS IS OUR ABSOLUTE TRY
We have tried to be in touch with you on several openings and now is the time to respond!

Has that familiar ring to it. Doesn’t sound like a local banker, either.

Anyone gotten a mortgage via spam? Drop a comment below, please. Someone, somewhere is encouraging thse people to keep it up.

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