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Old Dec 30, 2023, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Tart Cherry Jam View Post
If we speak of the language use, isn't "compliments of the season' too formal, a wrong language register for this sort of casual exchange?
And also, this last missive they sent has grammatical errors. ' I understand you are busy and you do not have much time to write me an email or have you lost interest in me.' e.g.
I don’t know anyone who says “compliments of the season”, not native speakers, not English learners. And I know a lot of people.

Most of the time these scammers do admit not being native speakers, but they often lie about their native language to make it sound it more appealing. I forgot if these people told you they are foreign born.

Regardless of their language use, it’s established that these are scammers. I found more surprising that they came back but you are likely right that they forgot. They have so many people they prey upon. Or maybe because they didn’t get anything from you, they wanted to try again.

Despicable human beings