Currently sitting in the junk box of my hotmail account are 48 messages.
They purport to be from people I have never heard of and about things I know nothing about.
The Rev Samuel Ugo is trying to contact me. The subject? Donation for charity works.
Mr Moris Sabado is urging me to contact the ATM paymaster card cent
re and Senator David Mark wants to talk to me about ATM 882.
Mrs Anglie Randall has sent me three greetings, the World Bank Office want me to contact them about the transfer of funds and the Loan Alliance says "Good Day".
I'm not sure what Barrister Richard Duke wants, but Sgt Derek Bittman is quite specific – he needs my help. And Mrs Jillian Zwerenz? She wants me to read something carefully.
Allegedly, there are several parcels I haven't ordered waiting to be delivered to me. Ooh, and I've won the Web Cash Lottery.
Obviously, I'm not a fool; I haven't opened any of these mails.
But there must be people who are, and do, otherwise fraudsters all over the world wouldn't sit there, mailing out an endless stream of email cons.
This probably makes me sound almost as naive as the folk who think these scams are real, but what I want to know is where the con artists got my email address from.
It's not easily guessable. And I only ever give it out to people or organisations I trust.
And don't send your answers by email...
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