From: John Lewis Plc <Procurement@johnlewis.com>
Reply: robturner-purchase@johnlewis-trade.co.uk, rob76295@gmail.com
Date: 11 Mar 2020 06:53:22 +0800
Subject: Product Inquiry 3/11/2020..
Hello nigel
The famous brand John Lewis PLC, is UK's largest multi-channel
retailer with over 76 shops and multiple expansion in Africa
furnished by European/Asian/American products. We are sourcing
for new products to attract new customers and also retain our
existing ones, create new partnerships with companies dealing
with different kinds of goods.
Your company was among does shortlisted by our team to
collaborate with this 2020 as we have a great market for your
products based on our research.
Send us your current catalog through email to review more about
your recent company's products and wholesale quote. We hope being
able to order with you and start long-term friendly, respectable
and solid business partnership. Please, we would appreciate if
you could send us your stock availability via email.
Our Payment Terms is within 15 days net in Europe, 30 days net in
UK and 30 days net in Asia/USA as we operate with over 2000
suppliers around the globe for the past 50 years now. Send your
reply to robturner-purchase@johnlewis-trade.co.uk for us to be
able to treat with care and urgent.
Best Regards,
Rob Turner
Head of Procurement Operations
robturner-purchase@johnlewis-trade.co.uk
Tel: +441158241819
WhatsApp: +447497483925
www.johnlewis.com
REGISTERED OFFICE 171 VICTORIA STREET, LONDON SW1E 5NN
COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 233462 VAT NO. GB232457280
Hi.We have received the same one.But the email is robturner.procurement@johnlewistrade.com.
We do not know is it a really scamer or not .
A “due diligence” check you can do is look up the domain name – Do an Internet search for “domain whois” to find a tool.
You will find that johnlewistrade.com has a creation date of 2020-06-06T08:28:39Z Less than 3 months old should ring the alarm bell. That is all we can really say about your case as we do not know any details about yourself, e.g. are you likely to get Emails from john Lewis?
Our Email above says “Your company was among does shortlisted by our team”. Bad spelling/grammar aside, we would very much doubt that we would be on a short list without realising we were tendering our produce to John Lewis. That is not how the tendering process works.
They then ask for our catalogue – It is now obvious they do not know what we sell – If this were real, they would be asking about a specific product – This Email is too generic to be trustworthy.
It is easy for us because we also know that the Email address this arrived at is one of our honeypots – an Email address that has never been used, has no association with any company or products and this particular honeypot has a silly name – obviously we cannot reveal that but its along the lines of cheeseburger@brendinghat.com.