Your opinions sought about an email

[Peter B]

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:

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?

[cjameshuff]

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.

[DataCable]

and there grammer iz attroshus

[gillianren]

That's why they need his services!