Are you getting them too? Emails from a financial institution offering a line of credit?

When the first one came last month, I ignored it. Not only was it from some lender I had never heard of, but the line of credit was being offered for my business, Lorne A. Martin Excavation. Do you see a problem there?

My name isn’t Lorne A. Martin, and I don’t have an excavation business. I certainly wouldn’t want to borrow money from someone who has the basics wrong. Then again, maybe I wouldn’t have to pay it back.

The emails come with different signatures, and from different “companies,” though the text is pretty much the same. There was also no contact telephone number for the lender soliciting my business, and no website for the institution. Does that look like a scam to you? I thought so too.

I can’t find the institution when I search online. Neither can I find the company I supposedly head.

All of which has me thinking that the sole purpose is to get me to hit reply, thereby proving that my email address is valid. There’s probably money to be made in selling such data.

I always like to figure out the scams that come my way. In this case though, not enough to hit reply.