A New Scammer . . . What's the Angle?

[imcarthur]

What do you think? He'll offer to overpay in advance?

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The email:

From: Mr,Williams ben [mailto:bwn_williams_7@msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:16 PM
Subject: BOOKING FOR DINNER

I am Mr Ben Williams, Director of Finance and Administration
department National bank, UK London branch. My
office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks
and financial institutions in London concerned with
foreign claim payments.


I want to book dinner for my group of workers.They will all come for dinner in your place as from July 13th, 14th and 15th, 2009 by 6:30pm each day.They are 15 in number.Get back with your response if there is availability in your restaurant.thanks


Best regard

Mr,Williams

Tel: +447045736370

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Looking deeper here are the properties:

X-Apparently-To: (Me)@rogers.com via 206.190.37.220; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:15:37 -0700
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Reply-To: janecoker@atlantisgoose.com
From: "Mr,Williams ben"
Subject: BOOKING FOR DINNER
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:15:37 +0000
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Note that the email is actually coming from janecoker@atlantisgoose.com.

Who of course, doesn't exist. Google turned up this:



whois.com turned up this:



How should I play this?

Ian

[onlycafe]

cash only please. american money.

[Bill Douglas]

Return email and ask him to phone personally.

Plus the English, or anyone who speaks English for that mater, doesn't say Best regard (missing the s) and Mr, (comma) Williams.

[cl8ton]

Where in the OP did he offer to over pay?
Do not know, but I think he wants you to foot the bill for some rowdy sports fans?

Did you call the number, maybe we should set up a speed dialer

Originally Posted by imcarthur

What do you think? He'll offer to overpay in advance?

[TerryH]

Bad grammar and punctuation covers that page. Not professional and neither are those crooks. The financial part of the deal won't come until you respond in a positive light. Let him know you're very interested! See what comes next.

[Oracle]

Don't play, those are criminals.
Read all you want about this: http://www.419eater.com

[TerryH]

We know they're crooks. That's what makes it fun to play.

[Mr.Puff]

Their English is getting better. Some day soon it might just appear to be a fools deal instead of a straight up scam .

[Geronimo '74]

Go along and annoy the ***** out of him. As long as you can keep them interested, he'll keep trying.

419eater.com or 419scambaiter.com, they do it all the time and provide some good tips.
Did it myself for a while. Make a fake emailadress and reply from that one. Make it look as he adressed the email to the fake emailadress before you hit reply... They don't care who responds as long as they get a reply.
It's good fun, for a while.

[legion]

Tell him that you can get him an excellent discount on meals as your health and safety license has just been revoked and the restaurant is about to be condemmed. Also tell him that you specialize in dishes that contain dog meat, rancid rat, and bear feces.

[rcecale]

Originally Posted by legion

Also tell him that you specialize in dishes that contain dog meat, rancid rat, and bear feces.

Are those bear feces picked fresh daily from the local woods?

Randy

[legion]

Originally Posted by rcecale

Are those bear feces picked fresh daily from the local woods?

Randy

Does a bear $h!t in the woods?

[Christien]

He/she's in the Canadian London. I'll be there next week - get me an address and I'll pay them a visit with a wine list!