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It's not just the use of @gmail.com, it's the fact that it's clearly an autogenerated address with random chars that tripped me.

If it was claiming to be a small business from companyname@gmail.com, I'd be less suspicious - but a large corporate not using their own domain for mail, the email address itself, and the then switching to a second email address are all giant red flags for me.



Exactly this. How these email addresses didn't raise any red flags is beyond me.

Looks like many people are much more gullible than I ever imagined.




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