Hotel Bookings from Lloyd Henry (Dawson)

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 3

Hi all. The following is typical of about 3-5 scammer emails I receive per day on our business email address. We own a small hotel in a "tourist" area of the U.S. and typically I just junk these but I thought someone might like to have some fun Very Happy

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The email with headers is:

Quote:

Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
Received: from mailer.eun.eg ([193.227.1.3]) by xxxxxxxxxxx.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:34:24 -0400
Received: from mailer.eun.eg (localhost [IPv6:::1])
by mailer.eun.eg (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n59AUWSB007235;
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:30:33 +0300 (EEST)
Received: from 204.106.8.9
(SquirrelMail authenticated user mmawahab)
by 127.0.0.1 with HTTP;
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:34:38 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:34:38 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: BOOKING RESERVATIONS
From: "LLOYD HENRY" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-rc1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
Bcc:
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jun 2009 10:34:25.0371 (UTC) FILETIME=[DC102AB0:01C9E8ED]

Dear Sir/Madam
My name is Mr Lloyd Dawson, C.E.O Dawson Reservations London UK , we have 3 delegates that are interested in booking your rooms for a holiday . Kindly get back to me with the total cost for the 3 SINGLE occupancy for 10 nights. email me back with final price/total cost for the rooms for the whole stay for consideration and payment but we can pay with credit card. BREAKFAST INCLUSIVE Arrival / Check-in Date = 10th August 2009 Departure / Check-Out Date = 20th August 2009. Hope to hear from you soonest with the total cost for the stay. kind regards Lloyd Dawson
tel +44 703 599 8166

I'll be happy to give any "hotelier" assistance I can.

EDIT: Edited to fix quotes

Not quite a Newb Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 78

A quick Google turned up

http://www.villagepress.co.nz/issues/scams/scams2008/namibia.htm

Seems Mr. Dawson needs to book a lot of delegates around the world.

Note:Fixed typo

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