# What is this email? Where's the scam here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127 "2013-08-13T12:59:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127/1 "2013-08-13T12:59:19Z")

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I received a quarantine notice from my work’s email quarantine service. I went to the message in question and am a little confused as to what the point of the email is. Take a look:

> [@](#):
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> From: Davina Renthal \<info@messagebridge.org\>  
> To: Me  
> Subj: Informative and helpful
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are looking to reduce inaccuracies within our clients mail groups. It appears that you are down as a recipient of newsletters across various industries.
> 
> If you feel that your information has been added in error, please let me know.  
> There are several informative messages being sent to you currently. Each one has the relevant method of removal and we advise you to make use of these methods of removal.
> 
> Thanks  
> Davina Renthal.

What is this? Harvesting valid email addresses?

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**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127/2 "2013-08-13T13:05:25Z")

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Could actually be legit. But I think you nailed it.

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**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127/3 "2013-08-13T13:46:59Z")

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My guess is the second email (the response to your response) would be interesting…

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-email-wheres-the-scam-here/666127/4 "2013-08-13T19:46:57Z")

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Are you getting newsletters across various industries?  
And even if you are, I don’t think they’d care. They just want the numbers, pretty much. I get calls all the time for trade rags not in my field, and the poor caller won’t take no, so I tell them to send an email version and direct it to spam.  
Doesn’t look like phishing since they don’t direct you to a site to remove the newsletters. In fact, is any response even requested?  
Maybe some newsletters are getting audited.