“I am very attractive” claims email scam

ByCraig Haley

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Email scams are often notorious for bordering on the unrealistic, audacious and sometimes even downright hilarious.

And the below email, with the subject header simply reading “I am very attractive” really stood out when it hit one of our inboxes this week.

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The email scam appears to be a romance scam, a close cousin of the infamous Nigerian scams, whereby the scammer, posing as an attractive person living abroad, strikes up an email relationship with a victim of the opposite sex. The scam involves the scammer gaining the trust of the victim over time, and once that trust is founded, the scammer will begin to request money from the victim.

For a scammer, the subject title of their email is one of the most important things as it’s the hook to get a victim to open the email in the first place. A boring subject will most likely get passed over. An unoriginal subject will almost certainly be identified as a scam by almost everyone.

However, simply stating that you’re an attractive person in the subject is a first for us.

One can only imagine where it goes from there.

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