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Originally Posted by Sarahdk23
I get these scam emails costantly. And sadly some peope fall for it...
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I don't know. I think more than half of these things are just fishing out to see if it is a genuine email address they are sending to, if there is no bounce back they have an email address which they can potentially then use for other scams or perhaps sell in bulk load, so it is not necessarily that email itself which is the scam in such cases I believe.
I replied to one of these things once and said yup no problem give me the money, but you will most likely find all the contact details not to be working or invalid anyway. Good is that spam blockers will usually filter it really well these days. Gmail does a great job in particular in my opinion but you do sometimes find genuine emails end up in the spam box, very occasionally though.