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

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
X-Originating-IP: [65.55.111.164]
Authentication-Results: mta107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=msn.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=msn.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 65.55.111.164 (EHLO blu0-omc4-s25.blu0.hotmail.com) (65.55.111.164)
by mta107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:15:37 -0700
Received: from BLU120-W31 ([65.55.111.136]) by blu0-omc4-s25.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:15:37 -0700
Message-ID:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_07af72d0-8586-4731-a7cd-cb5c70acf70f_"
X-Originating-IP: [77.70.128.190]
Reply-To: janecoker@atlantisgoose.com
From: "Mr,Williams ben"
Subject: BOOKING FOR DINNER
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:15:37 +0000
Importance: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
Bcc:
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2009 02:15:37.0921 (UTC) FILETIME=[980A3310:01C9A838]
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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
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