How (if at all) would you respond to this email?

[kenny]

Well, that's another reason

Anyone who knows to say "femur" knows to include your name and theirs, and more than a single sentence. And why is it germane that it's the right one? At least it wasn't the left!

I would bet a FCD that this is spam/phishing/etc.

Brown, or Red?

 

[Bron357]

As others have said, delete and move on.
It’s a very strange email to send out IF it was a real person who you knew.
It’s deliberately obtuse so as to encourage “engagement” ie a reply and who knows where the matter goes from there.
Maybe more messages then asking for money, or to be your next love interest, or a scam job offer, a Nigerian Prince needing your help, a fake win in a lottery you never knew about, your bank details, maybe just a confirmation the email address is “live” so your email address can be on sold to all and sundry resulting in a never ending supply of further spam messages trying to sell you products etc.

 

[foxinsox]

Thanks all.
I'm going to ignore it.

I just wonder how she (more likely he, because IMO men are more likely to be scumbags than women) got my most personal email address.
I rarely give it out, even then only to those I trust enough to give my real home address.

Do you think they have a computer that sends the same msg to every possible address, even i64a*!267vc4atyahoo.com?

Yes. If you have any sort of pattern or even frankly random, they’ll just hit a series of combinations until someone replies.

 

[xsouzie]

I would delete. Last week, my sister got a message on Instagram that said, "Hey, how's Jack doing these days?" She has no idea who the sender is...but the kicker is, our dad's name is Jack.

 

[ringo865]

I just got a text on my phone (not an email) from the Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Division, Department of Workforce Development, needing me to verify my info at the link that followed. I’m like geez this sounds important, and legit … but uhm, wait, I’m not at work where I have dealt with this entity (but using only my work phone email address, etc., not personal) and I live and work in Minnesota… so yah, i deleted it. I figure if they owe me any unemployment benefits from all my MN jobs (current job at which I’ve worked for 10 years), they can just mail the check to me….

 

[Lookinagain]

I just got a text on my phone (not an email) from the Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Division, Department of Workforce Development, needing me to verify my info at the link that followed. I’m like geez this sounds important, and legit … but uhm, wait, I’m not at work where I have dealt with this entity (but using only my work phone email address, etc., not personal) and I live and work in Minnesota… so yah, i deleted it. I figure if they owe me any unemployment benefits from all my MN jobs (current job at which I’ve worked for 10 years), they can just mail the check to me….

That kind of request from a government dept. usually comes by regular mail, not phone, email or text. I always think that things coming in that way are pfishing or spam. there are a lot of fraudulent unemployment claims right now. I've had at least 7 employees have fraudulent unemployment claims filed in their names, so please be careful.