This morning, some spamster-scamster sent out an email to a random group of @columbia.edu addresses in the hopes of gaining access to your account—most likely to do terrible, terrible things like stopping forwarding your Cubmail to your Gmail account or logging on to Courseworks to tell your professors you don’t really need that extension after all.

At first they almost had me—what with all the poor grammar, I thought it had to be from those nerds at CUIT. But no self-respecting techie would ever call it a “pass.word.” So nice try, random spam asshole. Next time, try not to do it during finals, when we’ll read any email in full as a distraction. Full email after the jump.

Attn: Columbia account user.
Please be informed that we will be upgrading our system in a couple of days from now and your account needs to be reactivated, to complete your account activation you must reply to us Immediately and enter your valid account details as requested below.

First Name.
Last Name.
User Name.
Pass.word.
Phone number.

You are required to do this before the next 48 hours of receipt of this email or your account will be erased and de-activated from our database.

You will be sent an account activation code to the account details you provide in next seven (7) Working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.

Your account can also be verified using the link below:

https://*********************

Thank you for using columbia.edu.

Just look at that run-on! They really nailed it…