On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, 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.
Ah, ok, that makes sense. The non-obvious-phishing ones I've seen don't
discuss payment, but they may only be the initial lure and if there's a
response then they may try the scam.
Thanks!
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