Probably an advance fee or stolen CC scam of some kind.=20

We get RFQs like that from time to time- often asking if they can use CC to=
 pay. Maybe they will 'overpay' and ask for the money to be refunded or may=
be they actual want the stuff - either way I'm pretty sure you'd end up wit=
h less $$ and then with more.

Best regards, SP

> On Oct 17, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm hoping someone here may know something about this.
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> For about the last year, I occasionally get emails which are requests for
> quote for computer hardware, claiming to be from various institutions. Th=
ey
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any ideas on the motivation for this?
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> Sean
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