There’s a new email scam making the rounds. Apparently, someone thinks that the Texas Attorney General is the soothing sort of authority that people will listen to.
Attn: [Recipient Name],
This is the office of the attorney general of Texas we are using this private email box to contact you for our security reasons because a lot is going on now and so many of our citizen wish to hear from this office daily but we have choose this medium to attend to our good citizen.
[Recipient Name], we wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must try and see you provide all that is been requested for the security of this great country.
You are at a safe hand and we are giving you % 100 assurances to continue with them and make sure that your package is being released to you.
Thanks.1
The Texas Attorney General, of course, denies any knowledge of the emails and states, for the record, that he speaks betterer English than that.
Footnotes
- Consumer Alert: Email Scam Claims to be from Texas AG, Woodlands Online (2008), https://www.woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=25630 (last visited Jul 3, 2008). ↩︎
About the Author
Mickey is a Consultant & Attorney with over 28 years of experience in Email Deliverability & Privacy Law. He has a strong background in email authentication infrastructure (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), ISP and mailbox provider relations, anti-spam policy and compliance, CAN-SPAM and state anti-spam law gained through overseeing the Abuse & Compliance team at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, originating the ISP relations role at Informz (now part of Higher Logic), and working in the fight against spam since 1997. He holds a B.A. in Government, a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He is a certified CIPP/US professional and a certified CIPM professional.
