Mastodawn

I just got an unsolicited email from a gmail address regarding a supposed sell-off of vintage computer gear, without any details, and with blind distribution. I have no intention to follow up on it, but I'm left speculating whether this is a legitimate collector sell-off or if scam emails have gotten this good at targeting niche interests.

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Tim 🎮

@NF6X the repeat of the exact phrase and capitalisation of the subject with that extra space right after it in the body tells me it's been clumsily mail merged from a template with a variable topic and sent to a mined list of potential victims. The rest of the email is totally vague and isn't at all how someone would approach getting rid of a collection of retro computing gear. This is 100% a scam.