Phishermen are Stoopid

I was cleaning out my spam folder in my Gmail yesterday (I do it about once a week). One of the mails I saw as I was scanning through, was a mail from "IRS" with a subject of "Your Tax Return."

I'm not an American, so I didn't click on it. But I could see an American of slightly lower intelligence clicking on the mail to find out what it's all about.

Then I saw another mail (probably sent an hour or two earlier), from "Internal Revenue Service" with a subject of "Your Tax Return."

Hmm.... I've seen this before in my spam folder with mails trying to get me to confirm my banking details and such (by the way, in case you didn't know, you should never ever click on any links in any such e-mail!). I've often thought that phishing mails might have more success if they didn't send the exact same e-mail three different times on the same day, from three different "From" display names.