Inside an inheritance scam: What really happens when you reply

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Listeners to my podcast will know that in each episode we run a segment called Don’t Click That Link — I’ll Do It for You, where we open up dodgy links, reply to suspicious emails and investigate how online scams actually work.

Over the past three months, I’ve been involved in one of these scams myself — an inheritance scam that started with a single email.