The messages included supposed loans of 200,000 to 10 million rupees, a fake UN compensation claim, an $8.8 million inheritance pitch and a €2 million lottery giveaway.
The writer also dismisses spam about acrylic furniture, customised bags, a Yamaha piano and mistaken cricket-team restaurant bookings, presenting the approaches as absurd examples of unsolicited online fraud and junk mail.
The piece highlights how scam emails mix financial deception with bizarre personalisation, using invented officials, companies and dead relatives to solicit contact details, bank access or other responses from recipients.
AI writes perfect scam emails now. Is looking for typos officially useless advice?
Scammers can clone your boss’s voice with AI. How do you trust an urgent phone call?
With cybercrime sold as a service, are we all losing the war on digital trust?