On 3/22/2013 7:53 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
On 3/22/2013 12:41 AM, David B Funk wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, John Hardin wrote:
I've been seeing "We'd like to buy your product, please send a quote"
messages for a while now; some of them are fairly obvious phishes
sending the user to a website where they enter their username and
password to see the "product specifications", but there are others
whose purpose isn't obvious - no URL, nothing beyond just "send us a
quote for 5000 units of your product".
Does anybody know the rationale behind these seemingly pointless
spams? Are they a 419 variant of some sort? That seems sort of
inefficient given that they will probably primarily reach of people
who, like me, aren't selling anything.
The variant of that theme that I've seen is "we like your product, do
you accept
credit cards from -name-of-country-here-?"
I'm guessing it's some kind of laundering stolen CC#s scam.
Agreed. They typically then pair it with either A) shipping to a
international broker or B) asking you to pay the broker and shipping
fees and add it to the credit card which turns out to be stolen.
I see these and assumed it was because of our line of business. Will try
and take a closer look at this.
I see these from time to time and just feed them to Bayes. Any serious
buyer would at least take the time to look at our website and see what
we sell.
--
Bowie
