A funny SCAM email and what I may have learned from it.

There are a lot of spam/scam emails going around. And they’re getting good at making them seem legit.

I would think that there is a big boss for every scam team. They never give up.

A lot also do not have matching "from" email addresses. That is another sure give away!

@thehorse I got something similar from Geek Squad.

My inbox is full of spam mails and I keep getting message that my storage space is full. I keep deleting them without even opening and they keep pouring every day. It's annoying. With the use of AI these days, the scammers are getting smarter and there is a very blur line between the authentic and fake ones.

I use to ignore scam email because they are not worth of my time.

I know there are scam baiters out there that routinenly shut down scams, but new ones pop up. and people try the old same tricks.

I had experienced being scammed thru an email. It was my order in Lazada wherein I received an email that I have to pay 50% of the amount of the goods for it to be delivered. I paid the amount and found out that it was a scam later. No time to back out. f spent the amount of the goods plus the 50%. I did not cancel it since I already spent so much. I guess that was an inside job.

I don't look at emails. But I did get a text saying I owe a toll charge. That truck needs to stop exploring without me

I expect there is. Scamming is big business these days. Having said that I have previously received similarly careless responses from genuine companies.

That's a classic phishing scam tactic, and the missing company name is a huge red flag! It's very common for these scams to have grammatical errors or missing information, which often points to them being mass-produced and sent out without careful review.

Scam emails like the one you mentioned are frustrating, but at least the mistake made it look that it was not legitimate. Sometimes I wonder if these scams are run like a business, with different levels of "employees" following orders. Maybe the person who sent yours was careless, inexperienced, or perhaps bad at their job. Some scammers are not native English users and their messages often have odd phrasing or grammar mistakes. While many low-level scammers get caught, the real masterminds behind these operations are much harder to track down. They often operate from countries where law enforcement has little power to stop them such as North Korea. Still, some big cybercrime rings have been busted, though many more remain active. I received few ones over mail and phone such as Nigerian prince and another one asking me to share my card details.

I receive them all the time, but they go straight to my spam box so I only delete the whole spam box. When it's empty I move on to reading my inbox emails.

I think it's more that the "Big Boss" (most likely a Nigerian Prince or General) bought a scam template letter and instead of reading the instructions, he/she enthusiastically mass mailed it as is leaving the rest to the slave-phone workers. Remarkably, they will probably still get calls.

Got the same e mail. I just throw them into the spam list. Some people must fall for these scams or they would not be willing to buy our information to send them to. I also have been getting a lot from "docusign" about a purchase of cryptocurrency.

I believe this one is ai generated draft letter that the scammer just copied and pasted and send it to everyone. I used that too from time to time when i havebthe hard time composing a reply in an email then just fill it up correctly when neccesary.

Goodness gracious, scammers gotta do better than that.