Spamtastic Starbucks Offer?

This morning, I received this email at my yahoo mailbox:

SUBJECT: Starbucks Member #167846180


Customer: #481302148130234813022

Congrats $username, You've been selected to recieve a $200 Starbucks
Card.

To claim your $200 Starbucks Card before it's too late!
http://opplete.com/starbucks/

http://opplete.com/starbucks/
Please Click The Above Link

This is a limited time promotion, please claim your $200 Starbucks Card
before it's too late!





















To unsubscribe, go to:
http://opplete.com/jcpenney/lmo.cgi?ab-6.nhuslduygff6f2.f-12

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This email looks really fishy because of several things:

1. First and foremost, I am not a "Starbucks Member" nor had I signed up to be one.
2. If I was indeed a member, they would address me by my name or at least by "Sir", not by "$username"
3. If this email does come from Starbucks, why would they make me claim the alleged $200 Starbucks Card on a separate server when http://www.starbucks.com/ exists?
4. If this email *did* originate from Starbucks, why would it make me to to "http://opplete.com/jcpenney/..." in order to "unsubscribe"?
   

I almost fell for this since I recently got my Starbucks 2006 planner by drinking around five gallons of coffee but I remembered that whenever I fill up a form of any kind, I always give out my gmail address since I rarely open my Yahoo mail. Good thing my "spider sense" tingled immediately otherwise I would either be a victim of "Phishing" or my office Windows machine would have been infected by one of those Trojans.

Starbucks drinkers: BEWARE!

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