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Author Topic: Few funny emails received recently, do people actualy fall for such scams?  (Read 1036 times)
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September 09, 2014, 11:14:10 AM
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September 09, 2014, 12:26:49 PM
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I once read that these kind of mails are purposefully dumb, so that the few people who actually fall for it can be scammed fully and easily.

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September 09, 2014, 12:59:39 PM
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Yes, people do fall for them, but those ones are some of the laziest I've seen. More importantly, where did they get your email from?
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