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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: Peter B on October 15, 2012, 08:31:59 PM

Title: Your opinions sought about an email
Post by: Peter B on October 15, 2012, 08:31:59 PM

Hi folks

I recently started an essay editing business (you may have seen my sig line has an ad).

Yesterday I was startled to receive in my in-box an email from "Yahoo! Service Centre". The email address itself had a person's name - a quite rare name judging from Google.

The email read:

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my name is [name] I want to sent you my work for editing if thats ok.

My blog includes instructions for how to use my services, and part of that involves me emailing my bank account details to clients.

The email is quite different from the genuine requests I've fielded, and I'm highly suspicious. Should I just delete the email without responding? The thing is, there appears to be a university student in Australia with that name, and using "Yahoo! Service Centre" as their public name on their email may just be an undergraduate's joke.

What do you think?

Title: Re: Your opinions sought about an email
Post by: cjameshuff on October 15, 2012, 08:54:04 PM

They shouldn't expect a single e-mail to be taken seriously. Scammer or not, if they had any sense they wouldn't so obviously look like one.

Title: Re: Your opinions sought about an email
Post by: DataCable on October 16, 2012, 05:14:35 AM

and there grammer iz attroshus

Title: Re: Your opinions sought about an email
Post by: gillianren on October 16, 2012, 01:31:38 PM

That's why they need his services!