" Dear valued AOL member, We are sorry to notify that we had a system crash during a high DOS Attack that was launched on July 1st 2004. ..."

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The Spoof Email ...

Dear valued AOL member,

We are sorry to notify that we had a system crash during a high DOS Attack that was launched on July 1st 2004.
Some of our data base were damaged and we have to recover the database. The accounts that were in that part of database are required to update their accounts.
However, any failure in updating your records will result an account suspension. Please update your records before 1st August 2004.

Once you have updated your account records your AOL session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal . Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future problems.
To update your AOL records
Click here

NOTE: If you are using AOL software 9.0 or any other version, to continue you have to enable links by clicking on Show images and enable links that is located up on the right corner.

Sincerly, AOL Billing Staff.

The bogus web page...