New scam.....will it never end?
 

Hello Sales Dept,
First,i will like to introduce my self shortly; my name is Mrs Carloyn Mcgray,I am a successful business woman based here in the United State (ASTORIA,11105, NY).Meanwhile, I am deaf and cannot hear nor understand phone conversation .Therefore I am so happy to e-mail you on behalf of my client.I will like to order some products directly from your company on behalf of my client and I will like the products ship to my client address in South Korea. My client instructed me to use a particular shipping agent to handle her shipment due to the high charges and past lost of goods from other freight forwarders. Can you work hand in hand with my client freight personal agent? so they can Pickup the products directly from your location down to my client address in South Korea. I will be responsible for all necessary payments via my valid credit card.I hope this is okay by you ? Please advise back with your website or pricing list so we can proceed. Thanks,
Mrs Carolyn,
Address: 56, DIR STR
City: ASTORIA,
State: NY,
Zip Code: 11105

You think these people would at least pick an address that actually exists

...and maybe even learn English before trying to rip someone off.

It's the same logic behind spam and direct mail - the up-front costs are zero (or nearly so), meaning that if you can get one idiot in 100,000 to bite, you're coming out way ahead and it's worth it to do.

The only way to get rid of this crap is for either (1) people to collectively get smarter to the point where the available pool of suckers is small enough to no longer make it financially justifiable or (2) for the cost of business to go up (postage, a fee for e-mail, etc.)

Sadly I see #2 as the only likely outcome long-term. People sure aren't getting any brighter as time goes on...