For years we’ve batted away the pleas of Nigerian widows, deposed kings and even Jamie Dimon to hand over our credit cards in return for certain fortune. We can spot them and their badly-spelled pitches from far off. But there’s a new scam on the block. It’s from online marketing agencies who pretend they know us by picking up clues on LinkedIn and faking up an e-mail that implies we went to university together -- “Go Tigers!” or that we’re both writers and it sure is lonely, isn’t it?... but mainly that they’re wildly impressed with “Ramsay”.
A PLAGUE OF INTIMACY
A PLAGUE OF INTIMACY
A PLAGUE OF INTIMACY
For years we’ve batted away the pleas of Nigerian widows, deposed kings and even Jamie Dimon to hand over our credit cards in return for certain fortune. We can spot them and their badly-spelled pitches from far off. But there’s a new scam on the block. It’s from online marketing agencies who pretend they know us by picking up clues on LinkedIn and faking up an e-mail that implies we went to university together -- “Go Tigers!” or that we’re both writers and it sure is lonely, isn’t it?... but mainly that they’re wildly impressed with “Ramsay”.