re: "First, that opening line -- "I hope this message finds you well" How many
American speakers do YOU know who ever
begin an email with that salutation?"
I think I've used it once or twice (never again).
Bob
On 2/7/2015 6:16 AM, David Porter wrote:
> ..and the line about "makes a drive" who says that?
>
> On 2/7/2015 4:30 AM, editorgary@aol.com wrote:
>> Three things are -- to me, at least -- dead giveaways that this person is up
>> to no good, one way or another.
>>
>> First, that opening line -- "I hope this message finds you well" How many
>> American speakers do YOU know who ever
>> begin an email with that salutation?
>>
>> Second, he says he's from Calif. NOBODY is from "Calif" -- anyone living
>> here would tell you immediately whether they
>> were from SoCal or NorCal.
>>
>> Third, he refers to the "British Car Club" -- I don't know of any such
>> club... Maybe there is a "Santa Cruz BCC" (At
>> least there used to be one) and there are some British Car lists, but the
>> only "Clubs" I know about are marque clubs
>> -- If this guy was legit, I'd expect him to say he was from one of the local
>> chapters of AHCA or was in AHCUSA.
>>
>> So, each of those multiplies the probability that he is phishing for some
>> real connection to scam. (though there is
>> still an outside chance could be a recent emigre working for one of the
>> exotic car brokers (Beverly Hills, Gull Wing,
>> Hyman, Palm Beach, etc).
>>
>> I'd dump it into the scam trash.
>>
>> /Gary Anderson/
>> Editor-at-Large, Austin-Healey Magazine
>>
>>
>>
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