Winterwood Investment

Very amusing. Look at the email I found in my Gmail inbox today (it’s an obvious scam, of course):

Winterwood Investment
32 Newman Street
London ,United Kingdom
E-mail: winterwinfo@gmail.com

RE: Employment Opportunities At Winterwood Investment

My name is Bishop Gate I work with Winterwood Investment we came about your email address and your brief profile through an email listing affiliated with the US Chamber of Commerce.

This is to seek your employment as a representative to this honorable company Winterwood Investment we take delight in supplying of products such as Building materials, Toys, Amusement equipments world wide.

Presently we are experiencing difficulties in receiving payment from our overseas customers in Australia, Canada and USA. However if you are the type that like or prefer working from the house you can grab this opportunity by becoming one of our privilege directors.

Your duty will be base on clearing and receiving our due payments in your location have it noted that for every transfer to your account that is cleared or payment receive by you, you will be entitle to 10 percentage of the total sum.

If this part time employment invitation meets your acceptance indicate your interest by furnishing this office with the understated information’s:

Full Name:
Full Address:( not p.o.box):
City:
State:
Zip code:
Phone Number(s):
Fax number:
Age:
Sex:
Current job:
Email Address:

Note that your responsibility is to receive payment from our customers in Australia, Canada and USA in your account and deduct your payment of 10% and you send the balance.

Do email the above information via this email address: winterwinfo@gmail.com

Thanks as we look towards a positive response.

Sincerely,
Mr. Bishop Gate
For: Winterwood Investment

Looks like the Nigerian kings and governments are extending their business relationships into the United Kingdom and have created Winterwood Investment, an “honorable company” that “take delight in supplying of products such as Building materials, Toys, Amusement equipments world wide”. Good to know that…

• the US Chamber of Commerce maintains a huge database of Gmail addresses, including mine!
• “Mr. Bishop Gate” doesn’t have a firm grip of correct punctuation, capitalization and or basic spelling, but still wants my help.
• the official company email is on Gmail. Really, no top level domain? Maybe that’s how they got my Gmail account when signing up at the US Chamber of Commerce themselves!
• I can “grab this opportunity by becoming one of our privilege directors” if I am “the type that like or prefer working from the house”. A privilege director? Sounds important! Where do I sign up? Oh…
• there’s no request for my bank account information? I have to wait for a reply from your email address to be scammed? That sounds like too much work, to be honest.

I halfway tempted to reply to the email with some fake information, just to see what the next steps would be. But I’m too busy washing my hair today…