Marti DeLima

You have to pay the shipping fee or the money transfer fee.

You're seeing the same scam recycled with kind of a different premise every time.

Yeah.

It depends if you're actually in the market for a piano, right?

That's the thing about these scams.

It could be a totally mass market email to as many email addresses that they could scrape off the internet.

But then there's the couple people out there who, you know, that sounds like a great offer.

So I don't think that they were actually targeting you in particular, but I do think that it would be effective for some people.

If you had detected it was a scam, you should report it as such using your email client.

Usually there's a little button at the top of your email and your browser that says spam or report spam.

And I would just click that.

It gives them data on the types of messages and where those messages are coming from that are scams.

So maybe they can block it from getting to your inbox in the first place or pre-filter it as a potential scam.

But you're right.

That's not the same as reporting it to the Federal Trade Commission as a scam.

Absolutely.

In fact, most of the cases that are reported to the FTC have zero dollars reported as what was stolen.

So most of the case reports in the FTC's database are attempted fraud, not actual victimization.

Scams absolutely ruin the lives of millions of people.

They also erode our trust.