Rarely do I get any bonafide e-mail at my EFD Hotmail account. Usually, the mail I get is MSN trying to sell me something or a scammer filters through the main inbox. Of course, the junk inbox is almost 100 percent of the times full of junk. I suppose I should give MSN their due as they catch spam much more frequently than Yahoo does on my main e-mail account, although I have to say Gmail is the best among the three of all the e-mail providers who have almost a perfect record of keeping my inbox spam free.
As I said, some spam gets through on the EFD Hotmail account and I had little doubt the e-mail in my box today was from some kind of scammer. First of all, I know of no one named “Amed” who has a mail account in France or the same who would send me an e-mail unsolicited. But I had to admit the subject line of the message was definitely different. It said:
“NYTimes.com: Campaign Stops: Answer the Questions‏.”
Even after the spiel telling me how his cousin or brother or father or whomever was killed in a tragic plane crash and now he has all this money he needs to launder in the U.S., a short link to the above Times story was even provided. What a thoughtful scammer that Amed.
Such an act almost makes one think there is a little humanity out there in this great, big world of greedy, crooked-ass bunko artists — heavy on the “almost.”