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Recognisation of scam email can be easily effected.
Over capitalization and and poor puctuation are common. Grammatical mistakes are frequent. The promise of huge sums of money and/or easy money.
Lately scammers have been switching to love/dating scams. Statistics from newspapers and "60 Minutes" indicate a ten fold increase.
Scammers are finding the modality much easier. Lonely people are often so much more vulnerable and are softer targets.
Best is to not reply. Scammers send out bulk mails to any email address they can find. So usually if you receive scam mail you have not really been singled out. Hundreds of others got the same.
Cheers
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