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js71
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That's pretty common, I've been getting those for years and years. There's even an internet 'sport' dedicated to scamming the scammers: www.419eater.com
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Nodtveidt
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Yeah I've been getting those for years also. In fact, I had one in my inbox today. I just delete and ignore them.
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DeveloperX
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I don't usually open up spam either....I had assumed it was from my cousin Matt. But it wasn't.
Anyway, its not like I'm vulnerable to any email viruses XD
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Scrim
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Back in college, my roommate got one of those emails. We didn't think anyone would actually be so dumb as to fall for something so obviously fishy (we were young and naive), so we figured that it was another friend of ours using a fake email address to mess around.
We wrote several replies to the "mystery emailer", stringing him along, trying to suss out which one of our pals was playing a joke on us. In the end, we (wrongly) concluded that it was our friend Colin. My roommate photoshopped his and Colin's heads onto some cartoon characters and made a goofy little comic strip about the two of them going to invest money together in Azerbaijan. We fired it off in an email and waited for "Colin" to admit his little joke.
The scammer stopped writing back after that. I think he thought he had been emailing a crazy person.
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