Just when you think you've seen it all. The scammers and the spammers have nothing else to do with their day but send their random comments and emails to hundreds or thousands of destinations, all hoping to draw some attention or, better yet, draw in a sucker dumb enough to believe them. They are a wretched lot, that group known to science as homo sapiens spammeritis irritatingus. They are incapable of finding an honest way to make a living. And so this is what they do.
The following came through to my email recently.
Hello, This email is from Elon Musk and the
Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of the SpaceX team; Early-stage investor, CEO
and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and
co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around $245
billion. Your email address was randomly selected from the US and Canada email
databases and you won 18,087.71 shares of Tesla at $228.0 per share (TSLA)
worth 4 $124,270.00. Please take this email seriously by responding to this
email or contacting (claims@teslasfdn.com) to make a claim.
I'm sorry- did you say please take this email seriously? Rest assured, I would not even think of taking it seriously. Because it's got scam written all over it. It's claiming that I'm a winner of a random selection for over eighteen thousand shares of Tesla stock, at 228 dollars a share. They add in the final amount it's supposed to be worth (though they put the $ in the wrong spot. Because just randomly giving away four million dollars in stock is the sort of thing that's done.
And even if I were to believe this nonsense (I don't), why would I want stock in that company? Owned by a guy who's one of the biggest assholes on the planet? No thank you, I'd rather hold onto my integrity.
Nice try, ace, but there are no stocks, because this isn't legitimate. You're lying through your teeth, like you always do, about everything.
Sigh. I'd like to take you somewhere with a grand view. Somewhere high.
And push you off it.
Honestly this email is probably less of a scam than what's normally produced by Tesla, and Musk in general. If you give money to this scammer, it won't kill you.
ReplyDeleteMusk is a sleazoid.
DeleteI watched The Beekeeper on the airplane coming home to Hawaii and though I hate violence, it was surprisingly satisfying to see retribution against scammers.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check that out.
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