03-15-2010
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Monrovia, MD
Posts: 533
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Originally Posted by lporcano
It sounds like an attempt to harvest email addresses. Is it possible the email was sent through a PM from a message posting, forum, or social networking site you participate in? Many of these sites mask your actual email address, but forward emails or PMs to your personal email address. If you respond, your real email address is exposed and then goes into the spammers db. Depending on the amount of demographic information a spammer can attach to your email address it could be worth any where from a few cents to several dollars. In your case they already know you own a boat which adds a certain amount of value to that address. Many times they can also gather additional demographic info from public profiles and postings. If they know your age, location, hobbies, and can approximate an income based on boat size, then your email address becomes much more valuable. Or the guy could just be a nut. Either way, I would definitely not reply to it. Rather you should just delete the email.
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The email came to my yahoo address, which is already spammed so badly that a little more wouldn't be noticed. I'll see if the level picks up at all after this.
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