# Who is this SPAM targetting?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-spam-targetting/808155
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 4, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-spam-targetting/808155 "2018-02-04T12:29:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-spam-targetting/808155/1 "2018-02-04T12:29:04Z")
Another board I moderate had a spammer drop the following across various threads. The preamble was different in each but the main part was cut and paste. I’ll edit a page long text down to the highlights.
> [@](#):
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> gmail address deleted … Are you looking for money, here is your chance to make that happen.
> We are the best and Unique producer of Super Undetectable Counterfeit Banknotes and International Documentation Services … We offer only original high-quality counterfeit currency NOTES. We ship worldwide. We also print and sell Grade A banknotes of over 150 currencies in the world. … I am the Master of this artwork of counterfeit money making… repeated gmail address deleted
Now, is this a ham-fisted LEO attempt to snare people that pass bad money?
or
A flat out scam for respondents to replace good money for bad? Along the lines of …oops I sent you 10X what you wanted, keep 20% and send me the rest.
or
This is legit (to the extent I agree to using counterfeit money and they are as good as is said) and I can pay all my bills with undetectable forgeries?
My vote is #2.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-spam-targetting/808155/2 "2018-02-04T13:12:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> A flat out scam for respondents to replace good money for bad? Along the lines of …oops I sent you 10X what you wanted, keep 20% and send me the rest.
Simpler than that. They’re not giving the stuff away; they’re selling it (obviously, for less than face value). They get their 50% or whatever, and you get caught passing counterfeit money instead of them.
Well, that’s the best-case scenario, at least. More realistic is that you send them $500 to buy $1000 worth of counterfeits, and they send you nothing. Because it’s not like you can complain to the cops about them.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-spam-targetting/808155/3 "2018-02-04T14:30:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Simpler than that. They’re not giving the stuff away; they’re selling it (obviously, for less than face value). They get their 50% or whatever, and you get caught passing counterfeit money instead of them.
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> Well, that’s the best-case scenario, at least. \*\* More realistic is that you send them $500 to buy $1000 worth of counterfeits, and they send you nothing.\*\* Because it’s not like you can complain to the cops about them.
That’s why you pay with a stolen credit card.