Worlds Worst Spelled Phishing Email

[monkeyville]

Screenshot of it in IE and FF.

[Howard]

Why is it correctly spelt in IE?

[monkeyville]

thats the big question

[brammers]

dkmech, while being intrigued about the auto-correction features in IE, and eagerly awaiting the outcome of your investigation, I was making reference to the appalling spelling and grammar present in the topic title while criticising the same in the e-mail

[edit] Best add your reply to that too I know making fun of SPAG is old and lame, but this just asks for it

[dkmech]

dkmech, while being intrigued about the auto-correction features in IE, and eagerly awaiting the outcome of your investigation, I was making reference to the appalling spelling and grammar present in the topic title while criticising the same in the e-mail

Sorry, i didn't realise that.

[edit] Best add your reply to that too I know making fun of SPAG is old and lame, but this just asks for it

I'm afraid you lost me there.

[Rave]

SPAG = SPelling And Grammar I'm guessing?

[brammers]

Close, Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar.

[Zedmeister]

Check out the coding of the text???? (Hint view source). Might explain why IE shows and firefox does not?

[Paul Adams]

Check out the coding of the text???? (Hint view source). Might explain why IE shows and firefox does not?

Right-to-left markers littered throughout the text.

See "Bidirectional override characters" section here:
http://www.robinlionheart.com/stds/html4/dir

Porbably obfuscation to prevent plain-text spam blockers from detecting it, but views correctly when rendered with an HTML 4.0-compliant app, I would guess.

[RVF500]

Which is another reason why I use firefox