[King Prout]

received in office e-mail today: probable new internet e-mail scam.
methinks the Mitsubishi Motor Company shall be highly pissed about this.
(my real question: how is it that ANYONE is dumb enough to fall for these things?)

header: MITSUBISHI COMPANY WANT YOU URGENTLY

email text:
Mitsubishi Corporation"
General Importers & Exporters
Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn,
London WC1V 6BA,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Mitsubishi Corporation (UK) Plc, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Japanese trading and investment company, My company import and export
Petroleum Products, Carbon, Crude Oil, Power & Electrical Systems, Plants,
General Merchandise. We are looking for representative that can help us in
clearing our money, because most of our customers pay with checks and bank
transfer.As our representative you will receive 10% of any money you clear
for the company; this will be how you will be paid by the company; the rest
of the money will be paid into an account that we shall provide for you.
Should you have any question don't hesitate to ask as I'm here to give you
every guideline as regard this business proposal. If you are interested let
us have the following information so that we can open your file for you in
our department.
First Name(s) : Surname :
Gender :
Date of Birth :
Home telephone (including STD code) :
Mobile telephone :
Mailing address{house address} :
Preferred e-mail address :
Country of Nationality : EMPLOYMENT STATUS : Please select...
Full-time, Part-time,
Self-employed,Unemployed
Homemaker,
Retired.
Business/Company Name :
Please contact our procuring agent :mr leeyong jestsin with the email below:
leeyong_jestsin@yahoo.com

[Not A Snowbird]

That sounds an awful lot like money laundering!

[Monkey Face]

Looks like someone great uncle in Zimbabwe wants money laundered for terrorits...

Thanks for the heads-up, KP.

[BJClinton]

Did they give you only the email addy to respond to or did they furnish a link to a site?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

At least if the e-mail said 'Toyota', it would have been a better class of scam!

[nopardons]

That looks a lot like the Nigerian scams.

[tuliptree76]

That's creepy...