Hi all,

I'm hoping someone here may know something about this.

For about the last year, I occasionally get emails which are requests for
quote for computer hardware, claiming to be from various institutions. They
list a full name and contact address and phone number of someone at that
institution (don't know if that person is real). It looks like a real RFQ
which was sent accidentally to the wrong email address - except that the
FROM address doesn't exist. It will be from some domain name which is
similar to the real one but somehow incorrect and - importantly - it does
not actually exist so it does not seem that the aim of the scam is to get
me to reply because I think it would be undeliverable.

There is no attachment and the body of the email doesn't refer to one,
either, so it seems unlikely that there was a virus they wanted to
transmit.

Any ideas on the motivation for this?

Sean
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