What kind of e-mail scam is this?

It is usually money laundering. They have a huge number of stolen/phished credit card details and are looking to purchase things with them. If you accept you will discover that after they have paid they will find a reason to cancel the transaction and demand a refund, or they will simply sell whatever goods or service you provide. We get them quite often for books and magazines in bulk quantities. I agree – it is weird. It also seldom works but they keep trying.

Aha. Well thanks, Dark Scribe. I do the laundry here often enough I fell no need to help these scam artists with theirs.

They keep trying to buy mass quantities of wine from our hotel sommelier.

They will get your goods and a little later you will find that the credit cards were stolen and the credit card company has initiated a chargeback with your bank and you will be out the funds and the goods.

Thanks @davidbetterman At least I knew better than to even answer any of them.

@ETpro Also keep in mind that opening those kind of emails could download malware into your computer…

@davidbetterman Not so. I don’t use Microsoft Outlook, don’t allow any VBS or any scripting in emails and view as text only. I’ve got good virus software running as well, but email isn’t the entry point that is focused on. But you are right, if you use Outlook and allow VBS scripting and HTML email, just opening a suspicious email can nail you.

It’s a soliceter not spam

@Shadowman753 Whats a soliceter?