Scam magnetism
Apropos previous mentions of lazy spam-scammers, here’s one who’s working harder.
I got three copies of his “order”, sent to my domain-registration e-mail address, my private iiNet address, and dan@dansdata.com. The man’s thorough!
From: “Bill Jackson” <rev.billjackson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:11:41 -0700
To: sushilmehta0072000@yahoo.com
Subject: orderHello good day my name is Rev.Bill Jackson i will like to order some Fuel
Savers from you and will like to nop the cost for each plus tax and dont
include shipping cost
Thorough, but dumb.
Perhaps there’s a little symbiont circle out there, of scam artists making worthless fuel-savers and other scam artists buying said fuel-savers with fake bank cheques.
Oh, and the New South Wales Office of Fair Trading has announced an investigation into fuel-saving devices. They somehow managed to not mention the word “firepower” anywhere in the press release.
"Nop" the cost? Is that "know"? I was first trying to work out some exotic word used in haggling.
Comment by MichaelWright — August 15, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
And, just today:
I'm not even sure what this guy's trying to say.
Comment by Daniel Rutter — August 16, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
> I’m not even sure what this guy’s trying to say.
I'm pretty sure he's trying to leave the hapless reader with the impression that he is a wholesale buyer and also that said wholesale buyer may be under the mistaken impression that the reader may represent a manufacturer. If you're sufficiently gullible to swallow that one, he's probably hoping you'll envision yourself defrauding said wholesale buyer and walk away with a bundle of money without actually supplying any product. At that point visions of dollar signs are supposed to cloud your judgment, which will make you easy to defraud out of a smaller amount of money, probably in some kind of advance-fee ("419") scam. As Kerbouchard would say, "Lie to a liar, for lies are his traid; steal from a thief, for that is easy."
Comment by Jonadab — August 22, 2008 @ 8:48 am