Creepy spam

I just got spammed today by something called Word of Mouth Connections, noting that: a user at our website has just begun to look into your background via our anonymous online community.
In order to find out more about the request or contact the person making the inquiry, you need to pay them $10.
This smells like a scam. They’re probably using it to verify email addresses for spam purposes, and to scam money from people gullible enough to pay.
Ptui.

3 thoughts on “Creepy spam”

  1. I’ve been getting things along those lines for a while. Similar is a site which sends e-mail telling me that “someone has asked me out on a blind date”. They do have a form where you can submit an e-mail address to make an invitation. For grins I tried it on myself (they already had my address) and when the second “invitation” arrived there was no unique key by which to find out who had “invited” me! Some spammers don’t even know how to run a plausible scam.

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