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international order scam

A few days back, a message was posted to the india-gii mailing list, with the following spam message. 

Return-Path: 	<collectstore2 at yahoo.com>
Received: 	from web12010.mail.yahoo.com (web12010.mail.yahoo.com
[216.136.174.137]) by www.webindia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id
i6O2p3G05024 for <xxxxx at example.com>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:51:03 -0700
Message-ID: 	<20040724025325.62740.qmail at web12010.mail.yahoo.com>

Received: 	from [213.185.119.130] by web12010.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP;
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:53:25 PDT
Date: 	Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:53:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	SAMMY SHOLOLA <collectstore2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: 	international order
To: 	xxx at example.com
MIME-Version: 	1.0
Content-Type: 	multipart/alternative;
boundary="0-631815243-1090637605=:57251"


Hello Sales,
Please i will like to order for some products in your store and will
like to know if you ship goods internationally,Please reply as soon s
possible regarding this so i will know the next step,besides i will be
paying with my Credit Card.Hope to read from you sooner.
Best Regards,
Sammy Sholola

I was quite intrigued by this spam. This is quite different from the Nigerian-419 scam. On the face of it, it appears to have come from a confused customer. I tried to search for a discussion on this type of scam but did not turn up anything useful. I posted a message back to the mailing list. Suresh Ramasubramanian and Devdas Bhagat were kind enough to throw more light on this type of scam

The scammer pays with a stolen credit card, or by a fake cashiers check. However, that is not the only means these slimeballs swindle money. If the product you are selling costs Rs.6500 he will pay you Rs.10,000 (story is, he got a check from one of his customers, and he is endorsing it over to you, and you have to pay him the difference in cash by western union). Western union transfer is instant ... but when you present the check in your bank, it has to go to the foreign bank for clearance before it is found to be bogus, so that money credited to your account till the check clears is now debited back to the bank. In the meantime if you have gone and shipped the goods, you face even more loss.

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