We can end email scams tomorrow. Here’s how.

David Gilbertson

16 min readMay 12, 2021

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Putting an end to email scams is so simple that I’ll explain the entire process in one word in the second paragraph. The rest of the article is just padding. Ready to learn what you need to do? Ready?!….

Respond.

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Now for the padding…

The scamming industry is profitable because there are three types of people:

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