First Contact Initiated by: richard johnson
Name: richard johnson
Email: lashproduct@yahoo.com
Contact Date/Time: 04/16/04 19:28:23
Subject: international urgent response
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Question:
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Dear sales,
my name is mr richard johnson,am an english man base in nigeria.
i will like to place an order in your store to my store which i will like the order items to be ship to nigeria to my business address in nigeria.
I will also want to know the methode of your payment to nigeria cos we use credit card in our company.
This are ther order am willin to order from your store to my store,
##super-advance t-shirt killer robot
##republicans for voldemort
##cold war supervillain
##zip-up hoodie bob (or neil)
##zip-up hoodie neil (or bob)
I will like this items to be 20 each in all,
Beast Regard,
Richard Johnson
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These are obviously scams, but it seems like a somewhat fruitless one. They say they use credit cards, but in our attempts to lead them on, they never reply to anything we write, whether it's that credit card number, or a shipping address to "calculate shipping". With the implication that then we can send them this stuff. If they don't reply to anything, they can't steal the goods from us.

Also, since it is via the web form, and they always include some items from the store, it's more sophisticated than just email spam. What are the odds they're manually filling this stuff out?

What are your thoughts on how this scam is supposed to progress? Is the entire point to make me want to sign all my letters to relatives with "Beast Regard"?