Everyday, when we open our electronic mailbox, we get our fair share of unsolicited email. Of course, the unsolicited offers have gotten a lot more subtle and duplicitous. A few years ago, dozens of marketeers tried to get us to post badly sourced and designed infographics.
Now they’ve moved on to something that, in my opinion, looks a lot like deception.
In today’s email box, we found an email from “Jeffrey Redd, Project Outreach Director” with an email address of jeff@va.gov.samhsa.net sharing with us “a guide about finding treatment, free of cost.” Wow, really? A new fantastic resource from the folks over at SAMHSA?
But wait, hold on a minute. That email address doesn’t look quite right…
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I just received an email from the same Jeffery Redd from a certain gfoa.gov.us asking me to include an investing guide on my finance blog. I was initially estatic thinking a leading government body is reaching out to me but like you said it sounded fishy. Did some digging around and landed here. Thanks for exposing such scamsters