Dwelt a spammer, four-one-niner…

[senji]

419 spam are getting (slightly) more plausible. I just got this one (poor HTML included) at work.

Comments

[emperor]

Presumably the switch is "we need your bank details for this to work, oh and a large sum of money to set things up"...

[senji]

That's how they usually work, and I don't see any reason why not in this case.

[bellinghman]

The other possibility is credit-card fraud.

In this case, your 'work' would be receiving goods ordered on phished credit cards. You would then be either sending them on to the fraudster in a different country, or possibly flogging them on eBay.

In either case, you're receiving stolen goods, and thus liable to a prison spell.

(Oh, OK, the equivalent of receiving stolen goods as relates to credit card fraud.)

[king_of_wrong]

Yeah, didn't look like a 419 to me... More like either a pyramid scam (though unclear as to where the money comes from) or fencing.

Apparently the Chinese Triad gangs in Tokyo are pulling the same scam, if it's accepting/fencing goods...

[megamole]

heap big contact with chief! me scalpum good!