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What's the Scam?

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Why This Matters

This article highlights a rising AI-driven scam where fake positive responses are sent to email newsletters, creating confusion and potential security concerns for both content creators and consumers. It underscores the growing sophistication of online scams and the need for better verification methods to protect digital communication channels.

Key Takeaways

What’s the Scam?

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own.

Starting last weekend, I have been receiving a lot of individual responses to those emails. Always one line:

Thank you for the positive impact your emails have had on my life.

Your emails are a game-changer.

Your emails are a constant reminder of why I subscribed.

Your emails rock.

Thank you for the time and effort you put into creating these informative emails.

Thank you for the passion and enthusiasm you infuse into your email content.

Your emails consistently exceed my expectations. Thank you for the exceptional value!

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