Here is my latest Spam email

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Hello,

I apologize for the unconventional contact, though it is for a good
purpose. My name is Ms Jacquelyn Mitchard, I am a banker. I am
contacting you to repatriate a huge sum of money deposited by our
deceased customer who happens to have the same last name as you.

For years, the account went unclaimed because the deceased died with his
family in a car crash. All efforts the bank made to locate the deceased
family through the embassy were unsuccessful. Now the account is
considered unclaimed as the deceased died intestate.
I am contacting you
to propose the release and transfer of the unclaimed account through an
estate administration process (Letter of Administration).

Please reply if you would like to know more.

Does anyone think I should give it a shot? Could be legit and there might be a pot of gold waiting for me to make a claim.

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No, I’d shoot it down. It has all the ingredients of spam as you say yourself and should go into the round bin.

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That is where I found it. Periodically, I look at my spam folder and share those worthy of being shorned, ah shawned, um chered. :grin:

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I have been contacted by someone looking to locate an individual with the same surname and supposedly living in the same region of France. The search was being conducted by a firm who specialise in such work and no details were provided as to why and certainly nothing about possible money. I was happy to provide my first name and my full address (after all these are publicly available). All I got back was a thanks, confirmation I was not who they were looking for.
Any other approach by any other type of person, with any hints of money, is going to be a scam.

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Ridiculously easy to spot this as a scam. One could hope other scams were as openly apparent as this one.
Don’t need to advise to steer clear, do we?

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No, I got this under control. :slightly_smiling_face:
I get about 4 of these a month. They go straight to my spam inbox. Every now and then I check what is there and sometimes share my goodies. :slightly_smiling_face:

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