Spam enquiry???

nickbec

Ive just received an email from this fella emilie.le-querec asking me to complete a survey about my new bike. How does he know I have a new bike and is it genuine?
ps he said Id be paid for my input???

karljeff72

Quick Google comes up with that name is associated with Third Bridge Group Limited an investment company.
I would just delete it and don't take chances.
Did you buy the bike on finance?

steve_sordy

I would do more than just delete it. I would assign it as "Spam" and let your computer take care of any further messages from that source.

Lots of Spam is sent out on the basis that whatever scenario they present will be true for a percentage of their targets. That percentage is usually very small, but when they are sending out tens of thousands, maybe millions of Spam emails, they only need to get lucky once per day to earn a good living.
Whether it is a new bike, car, house, or maybe you just enquired after a mortgage, holiday, Viagra, or have just Googled Christine McGuiness to see what she looks like; then the spam merchants will have a scenario for you!

Sign up for some good anti-virus, anti-spam, ad-blocking software and get rid of most of it. My email software allows me to drag a line up from the bottom of the screen that divides the page into two. I have no idea if this is standard or restricted to the three different ones I have used in the last ten years. If I highlight an email on the top part of the page, it may say something like "Tesco has a refund for you" and the email address indicates it does indeed come from Tesco. But below the line I can read the email without having to open it; and I can see that all that is there is a link. I can also see the complete email address of the sender and that it is not from Tesco. I always mark these emails as Spam, so any further emails from that address go straight into the Spam file. I subsequently delete dozens and dozens of Spam emails per week that I had previously never seen. My mobile is set up to have emails forwarded from my laptop. On my mobile, I never open an email from someone I don't know. Clearing Spam from my laptop, in fact deleting any email from my laptop, automatically clears the same ones from my mobile.

I am not some insanely skilled techno geek, far from it, I'm just an old git that stays aware, and got lucky with a few software choices.