純正地道美語第343期(外教講解):E mail Scam 電郵欺詐

E-mail Scam 電郵欺詐

A: I got an urgent email from Tom! He says he is in London and got robbed and needs us to wire him some money for his hotel.

我收到湯姆發來的緊急郵件！他說他在倫敦遭搶了，需要我給他在的賓館電匯一些錢。

B: What? That sounds really dodgy tone.

什麼？聽起來就不真實。

A: No way, Tom is an honest person, he wouldn't lie tone.

不可能，湯姆是個誠實的人，他不會說謊的。

B: No I mean, it seems like someone may have hacked his email account and sent that out. I mean think about it, why would he email you instead of calling you.

不是，我是說，這可能是有人竊取了他的郵箱賬號，然後假借他寫的。我想如果是真的，他爲什麼不直接打電話你，而是電郵你呢？

A: Do you really think someone is trying to scam people into sending money?

你真的覺得這是有人想要詐騙錢嗎？

B: For sure! There are so many con artists out there, you never really know.

當然！外面有那麼多的行騙高手，你不知道的多着呢。

dodgy 善於騙人的He's a dodgy bloke, I wouldn't trust him an inch. 他是個詭計多端的傢伙，我一點都不相信他。

no way 一點也不，絕不Life, he declared frequently, was "no way to treat an animal". 時常掛在他嘴邊的一句話是“絕無法視生命如走獸”。

goal of the scam is to trick people into sending money to the fraudulent charity.該騙局的目的是欺騙捐錢給慈善機構的人的欺詐。

con artist 行騙高手Bob makes his living as a con artist. 鮑勃是位行騙高手，並以行騙爲生。