Scam email I wrote about last week is part of an ongoing campaign

Apparently the scam email I wrote about last week is part of an ongoing campaign. I received another one yesterday (alt text for this screenshot is below): This email gets one thing correct that the last email I posted about got wrong: the signature image is actually linked to the sender’s “blinq.me” card, so if you click on any of the fake buttons in the footer it will actually take you there. Screenshot in case it gets deleted: It looks like Billy Palmieri really is a recruiter at NVIDIA, but the sender of this message definitely isn’t him. There are oddities here. Why did the scammer put Palmieri’s real NVIDIA email address in the signature and on the Blinq card? Did he do that to make it look more authentic, and he’s hoping that some people will reply to the email (and therefore send their reply to the scammer’s Gmail inbox) rather than the NVIDIA address? Or does the scammer not actually care if people reply to the email? Perhaps this is just about the tracking images in the…