Anytime somebody says, "I read your profile and decided to contact you for your advice and collaboration," it has to be a scam. Which profile? Where? But, as a public service, I played along and asked a challenge question. "What do you think about the overall tax strategy I blog about?" Don't tell this clown, but I don't know anything about tax strategy and I've never blogged about it. If you follow my tax advice, you'll probably regret it. Which is the whole point of a challenge question. Ask a bogus question to engage the potential attacker and see if they offer clues about who they really are and what they want.
I'll give this one a D-. They got my attention, but for the wrong reasons from a scammer's POV. And I doubt this attacker is from the UK. The original email really did come from Gmail, so there's no easy way to locate the sender.
For more phishing samples, see my phish collection. Don’t phall for phishing.
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