# Anybody else getting emails from verobi

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 23, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674 "2012-11-23T20:09:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/21 "2012-11-26T16:46:50Z")

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> Those style scams continue to flourish because they work.

Because of our business in internet and internet security…I’ve read a few articles about this over the years. It’s a MULTI-MILLION dollar a year business year in the US alone. Most are the elderly and naive.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/22 "2012-11-26T17:59:18Z")

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**“Most are the elderly and naive.”**

…and the semi-literate.

Even if someone is fairly gullible, the decidedly semi-literate nature of the message should be a tip-off that it did not come from a highly-placed corporate officer at a major financial institution. But, in an era of declining literacy, I suppose that there are folks out there in cyberspace who don’t recognize that the message came from someone who is sitting at a public computer in a Third World country, trolling for unsuspecting, elderly, naive, and semi-literate victims.

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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/23 "2012-11-26T19:53:10Z")

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Besides the semi-literate nature of the message…The Email address is another giveaway. What professional do you know of who uses "LOVE’ in their email address. Besides the message itself being a dead giveaway…there were so many other clues. Yet emails even worse then this have garnished millions of dollars over the years from hardworking Americans.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/24 "2012-11-26T20:46:03Z")

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Mike makes another good point, and it applies to everyone, not just scammers.

So…here is something for everyone to consider:

When people fill out job applications or other business-related forms, providing an e-mail address like _[sexmaniac101@trash.net](mailto:sexmaniac101@trash.net)_ is just…not a good idea. People seem to be surprised when they are never called in for an interview, and IMHO their e-mail address can be a factor in many of these instances. If people just used a little common sense in terms of the e-mail address that they use for business purposes, they would be likely to garner a lot more respect, and to get better results.

However, I hope that the scammers continue to make these mistakes…

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**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/25 "2012-11-27T06:46:45Z")

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Greed seems to always boot common sense right out the door… 🙂

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**Author:** ![kmccune](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/kmccune/32/1237_2.png) [@kmccune](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kmccune)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anybody-else-getting-emails-from-verobi/75674/26 "2013-01-23T02:24:37Z")

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Wish this post would disapear

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