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Journal timothy's Journal: legal-related spam: coincidence?

Today, from a spammer with the handle (if not the name) "Zamri Ibrah," I got some spam that starts like this:

"Dear Colleague, We are currently handling collection matters in your jurisdiction on behalf of our clients and it gives us immerse pleasure to engage your professional services being a local attorney to handle this matter."

I wonder if they somehow got my name from a list of (say) law school graduates, or from the state bar association, or what. Or, as I suspect is more likely, it's just random shotgun spam that happens to have a profession as a hook. Pretty clever, actually; more people are ruled out (if they're not in that profession), but those who are may actually think that it's directed towards them.

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legal-related spam: coincidence?

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