How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: Anyone for a few tons of saccharin?

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Anyone for a few tons of saccharin?

How bizarre is this letter?
Might be a genuine business, on the other hand, might not...
Who takes businesses which gmail accounts seriously? I don't.
I like the "please find quote below" as if I asked for one.

From: Krish Pharma [mailto:krishpharmaindia@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 February 2009 13:45
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Saccharin - offer

Dear Sir,
Pl. find below quote details

Sodium Saccharin
PRICE : USD 7.4/KG CNF BY SEA ANY MAIN PORT Origin China PRICE : USD 11/KG CNF BY SEA ANY MAIN PORT Origin India Third party inspection can be provided.
Payment terms : T/t , LC , against documents

Insoluble saccharin can also be provided

Our other key strength
Acelufame K
Ascorbic Acid
Almagate EP
Aluminium Hydroxide Magnesium Carbonate co-dried gel Aluminium Silicate Calcium Acetate Calcium Ascorbate Calcium Aspartate Calcium Bis Glycinate Calcium Butyrate ( Feed Grade ) Calcium Citrate Calcium Citrate Malate Calcium Propionate Calcium Silicate Cobalt Propionate Copper Bis Glycinate Copper Propionate Dried Aluminium Hydroxide Gel Ferric Ammonium Citrate, Brown Ferric Ammonium Citrate, Green Ferric Ammonium Oxalate 3-hydrate Ferric Orthophosphate Ferric Sodium Edetate 3-hydrate Ferrous Ascorbate Ferrous Glycine Sulphate Ferrous Subcarbonate Ferrous Subcarbonate Ferrous Sulphate 7-heptahydrate Ferrous Sulphate Dried (Exicated) Iron Poly Maltose Light Magnesium Carbonate L-Lysine Monohydrochloride Magaldrate Magnesium Aluminium Silicate Hydrate Magnesium Hydroxide Magnesium Hydroxide paste Magnesium Silicate Magnesium Stearate Magnesium Trisilicate IP/BP Manganese Propionate Mono Calcium Phosphate Potassium Acetate Potassium Citrate Potassium Oxalate Sodium Acetate Anhydrous Sodium Butyrate ( Feed Grade ) Sodium Citrate Sodium Propionate Synthetic Hydrotalcite Sodium Saccharin Vitamin K3 MSB feed grade

Look forward to your early reply.

Thanks & regards,
Nirav Vyas
Krish Pharma
Mumbai, India
Ph: +91-22-29666185 / 6527 4111
Mobile: +91-93765 27222 / 98218 13470

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What is advance-fee fraud?

According to Wikipedia advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer, the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.

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The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter, fax, or Telex. The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software made the cost of sending scam letters through the Internet low. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK), and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud. The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scam in which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share (non-existent) treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."