Scam Email: Lin Williams

Another stupid oversight on a scammer's poor ability to understand language. No real person would sign their email with just their last name. The rest of their email is just the same old line so many of the scammers use. This scammer get pretty darn quickly right to the core of the scam - that they need to use a third party shipper of their choice (who doesn't exist, by the way) and they don't place orders online so they can use a stolen credit card number and process the real target of their scam - the amount will include the shipper's fee and they will ask you to forward that amount (often thousands of dollars) to the shipper who for some silly reason can only accept Western Union (which is untraceable).

Who is at the other end of Western Union to receive your good money? The scammer. They are careful to use credit card numbers that are stolen online but not yet reported as such - but you will end up with a chargeback. They don't care about the product - the shipping address is never real either. They only care about you taking your good money and forwarding it to a Western Union account and then they pick up their "profit". And they didn't spend any real money to get that money. That's why there are so many scammers out there trying to trick people out of their good money.

This email source traced back to Iran with the IP number of 85.198.1.90.

Return-path: [rojit@live.com]
From: LIN WILLIAMS [lin.williams40@gmail.com]
Subject: ORDER NEEDED

Hi Sales,
Am ordering from Dubai.I want to place an order from you. I know the difficulties encountered when shipping internationally, But that will not be a problem because i am registered with a shipping company whom i have used severally without any delay nor problems with my goods.Before i place this order, i want you to notify me if i am able to place the order and most important If i can make payment with my credit cards Visa/Mc (Issued in the United States) because that is the only way we are set for payment now without no delay. I don't place online orders ,can i e-mail my ORDER needed then you can give me a quote here and make charges to my cards manually on your end ? Pls Clarify. Looking forward to your swift response then we can proceed further as soon as possible.
Regards.
Williams.