Yeah, you need to apply a little thought of your own. Blindly following advice
without understanding, even if it's good advice, is slightly nauseating. No sane adult should need Netsafe to tell them how to blow their nose.
Yes,
sometimes the email address
is legit, sure. Especially for the sort of scam where they need to suck you in and initiate a conversation; e.g. the "I have lots of money but need a little of yours to get at it and then you can have some" Nigerian Prince type.
(Of course, you can see where people have had fun with that at
https://www.419eater.com/ !)
The point of my first response was simply that in the type of spam
this thread is about, the email address is quite likely bogus - because the spammer
doesn't need an email reply; so there's doubly no point at all in replying - it's unlikely to even result in 419 eater style fun.
As described in my second post,
I have literal first hand experience of spam sent with a bogus address!
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