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Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 41

I received this lovely gem of 419 letters in my personal account. I went ahead and forwarded it to my alias:

I am Mrs.Jessica Tung, marketing manager of MAJEUR ARTS AND
CRAFTS IMPORT /EXPORT. in United Kingdom.
we are a group of business men and women who deal on Art and Craft,
and we want to expand our business into Canada,United State,Japan,
Dubai and others European countries.
We are searching for reliable representatives who can
Help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in
Your respective country as well as making payments through you to us.
Please if you are interested in this lucrative business
With us, we will be very glad.
Please for more information contact the President/CEO
Dr Stanley Amy
Email: [email protected]

http://www.artmajeur.com/?go=cat_main

Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the
opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay
you for your services as our representative in
your country Please if you are
Interested forward to us your phone number/fax and
your full contact address.

Thanks In advance
Mrs.Jessica Tung.
Marketing Manager
MAJEUR ARTS AND
CRAFTS_________________________________________________

My reply was such:

Dear Ms. Tung,

Thank you in advance for considering me for this offer. I am very interested in becoming a representative of your company. I have considerable experience in sidewalk art, grafitti and fingerpainting. It would be a wonderful opportunity for me to expand my skills while being a part of your organization. Please send me more details on how I can apply for this amazing position.

Sincerely,
Aimee Lou
_________________________________________________

However the email did not transmit:

So I went to the website listed: www.artmajeur.com and sent this question:

[email protected] a �crit :

>Artist :
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> Question : My apologies if my previous inquiry did not transmit.
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>Dear Sirs,
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>Thank you in advance for considering me for this offer. I am very
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>interested in becoming a representative of your company. I have
considerable
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>experience in sidewalk art, grafitti and fingerpainting. It would be a
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>wonderful opportunity for me to expand my skills while being a part of
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>your organization. Please send me more details on how I can join your
ranks.
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>Sincerely,
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>Aimee Lou
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> http://www.artmajeur.com/
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> Contact :
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> [email protected] |[email protected]
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> Aimee Lou
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> us
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> Info Visitor :
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> IP Address : xx.xxx System : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Connection : Language : en-us

(omitted part of this IP address for my anonymity)
_________________________________________________
Their reply:

Hello,

Thank you for your interest.

Your proposal will be studied a the beginning of the week.

Sincerly,

David Frederic
Artmajeur.com

_________________________________________________

OK big red flags here - why would a "art" site want to log your IP address. I've looked over the site and tried to determine how legit it is...what do you guys think?

This is my first bait btw...should be fun!

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:42 pm

Play along for a bit, see if they ask you for money. The e-mail for Dr. Amy is the biggest red flag. It's a Yahoo acct based out of India. I've got a couple of lads using @yahoo.co.in

Like I said, just play dumb and play along, see how much info you can squeeze out of them. When they ask for cash, that'll be your cue to start having a lot of fun.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 41

This post went nowhere..sorry I even put it up. Oh well.