Often you can receive emails stating that if you forward them, it’ll be tracked, and everybody who you send it to who then sends it on again will earn you money. The most popular variant of this one is the Bill Gates scam, who offered to give money to everyone who forwards a specific email, another one is to prove you are still using your Hotmail email account, otherwise it’ll be shut down. It’s easiest just to nip this one in the bud - you can’t track emails. It can’t be done. Even if the e-mail had some dynamic attachment, it would have to be executed by the recipient to do anything, and we all know how bad executing unknown attachments is. So that pretty much covers it - any email claiming to track where it goes down the forwarding line is simply lying, as it cannot be done. This also in a large part covers charity emails which often use this premise as well, but we’ll cover those separately still.
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