I posted my "scam" email to a email list of some of my colleagues and two people have written back saying they have received very similar emails, but the names were changed. In my book, that is scam confirmed.

Thanks for the feedback here. I guess I can go ahead and post this email in the database now.

I looked at the headers and it verifies it came from a yahoo.it address, which is what shows up on the "from" line.

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