What the heck kind of spam is this?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m really scratching my head over what the heck is the possible point of this…I don’t know this person.
Hi [my real name],

How are your classes going? Summer classes are so intense, especially for the instructor. Mine were cancelled…a blessing in disguise.

Carole [Nope, don’t know Carole] gave the ok to let me teach 102 online for the fall!!! I am relieved about that, at least knowing I will have a little extra money.

Have they started reviewing applicants yet? Joe [I don’t know Joe either] has moved back in town. He got an apartment down the street from the [don’t recognize this] campus. He wants that job so bad. I told him he shouldn’t put all his eggs in one basket, but he is totally riding all hopes on this job.

My backpacking trip was good…very hard, but good. My pack was way too heavy. I couldn’t even pick it up to put on my back. That is a bad sign!! Long trip short, we went the wrong direction on the trail. Instead of hiking North to Angel Falls, we hiked south to Devil’s Den. It was funny even at the time, but we ended up hiking 12 miles for no damn reason. We had a good time though.

I have been busy getting ready for the yard sale next week. My entire family is having a yard sale at my mom’s next Friday and Saturday if you are interested in seeing a bunch of junk. It is in [town near me]. Turn right from [recognized road]onto [recognized road]. Turn right on the second street and follow the signs. Maybe I will see you there.

Well, I hope all is well. I just wanted to check in with you and tell you about the online class.

Talk to you soon.

Jenny

Now, I did just graduate from college and I did take on-line classes but I don’t know any Jenny. I’d say it’s some weird spam trying to get me to go to a garage sale, but would it be odd marketing to refer to it as “junk”?

Since I got it, she was auto added to my buddy list (I have it set that way) and I see she has been on line, which leads me to believe she’s a real person.

I really want to write back and say WTF? but I’m a-scared that it’s a trap.

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It’s possible you have the same real name as someone they know, they looked up their friend’s e-mail address using one of the various search engines for that sort of thing, and they mistakenly sent it to you instead.
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My guess is that’s the first part of a phishing scam - if you replied straight off, thinking it was a genuine ‘wrong number’ error or preferably you actually thought it was somebody you knew but couldn’t work out who, they’d possibly be able to work out more personal details about you. Then they could tailor the second stage a little more accurately, and so on, until they’ve got enough information to get money one way or another. For example, the major piece of information needed to break into most UK bank accounts is maiden name of the holder’s mother, which in any case is publicly available on their birth certificate - they just need to find out where and when you were born.

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Eek. Well, I did reply with a “who are you?”

Could they get info from that?

5

You should’ve just been like, “What up girl?” “Sup wit the digits?”

6

Nahh. If it is what I guessed (andit’s a big guess), they’ll be sending out hundreds, thousands of emails a day. The ones they’ll pounce on are the ones where, for example, they know somebody called Carole and mention in the reply.

What was the return address of the email?

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No, except for your real first and last name if you have that entered on your outgoing mail header (e.g. if mail from you shows up as “Saton Cookie (saton@cookie.com)”). Sounds like she already knew that and included it in the e-mail.

Check the reply address and the To: address; if the reply address looks fishy, or if it were sent to multiple people, then it was spam. But it looks to me like it’s just as likely it was nothing more than a legitimate mistake. Talking about phishing scams and getting at your bank account in reaction to that is like hearing someone has a headache and telling them it’s probably a brain tumor.

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"IT’S NOT A TOOOO-MAH!"