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I received an email today, purportedly from Coca Cola, saying that I have just won $5,000,000.00 (GBP). Obviously, or maybe not so obviously, I thought it was a scam and deleted it immediately without opening it. I never open anything unless I am reasonably sure where it came from, as scammers are getting cagey!
I thought to myself, who would be stupid enough to believe something like this? Then I thought about a recent news article saying that many thousands of Australians have been scammed to the tune of millions, so maybe it isn't obvious that is a scam to a lot of people. I really feel sorry for such misguided fools.
It is interesting that scammers are now using reputable company names in their scams. Oh well, their is the very old adage (England 1294) "A foole and his money is soon parted".
I am getting a lot more "junk" email in the past couple of weeks. Even though I have the best in antivirus software, it is becoming more frequent. Maybe it is time to change my email address again?
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