An Update to Unraveling an Email Scam

About a month ago I posted a video and weblog put up in which I defined the course of action that I employed to unravel an e-mail fraud in which anyone claimed to be an mental assets legal professional pursuing a situation versus me. That blog post turned out to be a single the most well-liked factors that I have revealed this yr so I considered that I would deliver an update on what has happened considering the fact that then. 

I replied to the e-mail with an clarification of why the assert was bogus and that they could get lost. I hardly ever heard back after that. But considering that the site was still saved my Chrome profile and predicted whenever I entered URLs starting with the letter A, I retained an eye on the web page. Yesterday morning the internet site went lifeless. 

Other Folks Who Uncovered the Fraud

Right after seeing that the web page had absent offline my curiosity acquired the finest of me and I went down a rabbit gap of seeking to see if there are other folks like me who bought the identical scam e mail and decided to eviscerate the scammers. I did a look for on Twitter and quickly identified a couple of others who arrived to the similar summary that I did. 

Shawna Newman was the receiver of the similar rip-off electronic mail again in February. Apparently, when she termed them out on it they transformed the deal with on their site from New York to Boston. Here’s her Tweet about it. 

Ray Alexander acquired the similar rip-off email and took the tactic that I did. He wrote a prolonged website write-up detailing how he unraveled the rip-off. Here is his Tweet and here is his blog post. 

Ben Dickson also received the email and determined to publish an unraveling of the rip-off. Here is his Twitter thread on the subject matter. 

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