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.
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