Lads email addresses

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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:23 am

Is it just me or do the lads really need to re-evaluate the way they make email addresses which just don't make sense like the old Charles Soludo scam, a doubt a high ranking official have an email address like

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[email protected]

It's the AOL part which makes me laugh. Or they have a really specific email address like if they want you to speak to their barrister, Jon Kolawole, his email would be something like

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[email protected]

Is supposed to try and be convincing or is it just the lads not thinking?

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:18 pm

In some cases it's just them hoping to appear more legit like when they use [email protected]

The ones I've dealt with I think play on the hopes that a victim will only read the first part of the email address. Sadly, some people do still fall for it.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:04 pm

Well, it's also kind of the nature of a 419 scam, MuguHunter.

In real life, Charles Soludo would be mailing from a nigeria.gov email addy, Barack Obama would be mailing from a whitehouse.gov addy, and a high-ranking official from Citibank would be emailing from a citibank.com addy. Lads don't have access to those domains so they do the best they can with what they have.

Remember -- 99.9% of the folks who get those emails read them, chuckle at the transparency of the scam, and then move on with their lives. The lads aren't looking to convince them -- just the folks who would believe that a UN official came into a crap-ton of money, reached out to them (and only them) and offered to share the windfall.