Is the mail COD?

If so, don't accept it, it will drain gold from your account.

When they send you hundreds of those, or one of them but with 1m gold, then you can be concerned.

Mailing 1g, or some other tiny value item is considered by some people as a type of 'social media poke'.

Maybe it means they appreciate some kind of help you gave them, or maybe you killed them in PvP and they felt enough *something* (positive or negative) to remember your name.

Can also be a joke response when discussing prices and money. In /zone chat, sometimes jokes along the lines of, "Sure I'll come help you with that world boss! What are you offering?"

And the followup is to send that person 1g as a joke in response.

Huuuh.. all I've been doing is farming Harrowstorms, ahhh I dunno what they want haha, so far its just the one mail though.

I once knew a guy who used to throw... well the coin no longer exists, thanks to the euro and all, but in essence he used to throw 1 sent coins at people as an insult. Well, a coin of equivalent value in the local currency at the time. A coin so worthless that many euro countries don't even bother minting them, or have them in circulation, instead opting to round up or down to the closest 5 cent value.

Actually, now that I think about it, the Japanese one yen coin is the closest modern equivalent in value, that is still actually used everyday. And those things are worthless. And a nuisance, and they cost three times as much to make, than what their supposed value is. Yeah, that is pretty close to what those coins, that he used to throw at people, were to us back then.

All you had to do was to act really dumb in his presence, or do something incredibly lame, and he would throw those coins at you. Picking them up and thanking him warranted additional coins to be thrown at you for actually bothering to pocket those worthless bits of tin. Maybe someone is doing a digital equivalent of that, but then again... probably not.

As an aside, those worthless coins are sold for about 1€ each on coin collecting sites these days. I still got hundreds of them in my miscellaneous coins collection box. Maybe in like 100 years, after I am long dead and buried, whoever inherits that box can make a tidy profit from all the obsolete coins I've stashed there over the years.

Probably someone who's used to the old system, and sent the email to the wrong person.
Emails used to have a very short shelf life if they didn't have an attachment, and a much longer shelf life with an attachment. That's no longer the case, they all expire after 30 days.
1 gold was a common attachment to make emails have a longer 'persistence'

Homer:
Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. Use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is only a dollar away.


Would not worry about it, if they had written a spam message or some such that would be one thing, probably just a case of mistaken identity, probably screwed up the name when sending the mail.

I knew a guild mate who got annoyed at someone and filled their inbox with individual lock picks in 72 separate mails.

Also seen plenty of people joking in guild chats, saying to newer members of the trade guilds to send them stuff, only to get their inbox filled with worthless gold style pages, like the prophet and other companions ones.

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Reply with "Thank you, kind sir/lady!".

At least you could give to beggars in Oblivion, not so in ESO outside a few selected.

Btw you cannot cod and send gold in one mail. Speaking from experience lol