Attorney scam: Oak Spring Canola Farms

This is a type of scam email that I haven't seen before, in this case targetting lawyers.. especially dumb ones (and I certainly have seen a lot of those before).

From: Thomas Shepherd <oakspringcanolafarms@hotmail.com>
Date: 20 October 2010 02:40
Subject: Representation
   
Counsel,

The management of Oak Spring Canola Farms seek the urgent attention of your law firm in regards to a breach of sale contract. I seek your urgent intervention in this matter because of its urgency, please advise me if this is your area of law practice so i can bring you into the loop. Expect your urgent responds at your earliest time.

Yours Sincerely,

Thomas Shepherd

I don't even know what a Canola Farm is, but the IP address that this originates from is 74.210.20.6 in Canada which is blacklisted for spamming out another scam (via surriel.com)

From: "Bowen Culbert" <culbert.cosmetics@gmail.com>
Subject: JOB OFFER
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:09:02 -0400

  CULBERT COSMETICS COMPANY
                      Culbert Cosmetics Company
                        5 Sheddingdean Business Centre
                         Burgess Hill, SussexRH15 8QY =20
                          United Kingdom  =20
                      Phone:  1273906031
Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Bowen Culbert. I represent Culbert Cosmetics Company based here in United Kingdom. We need company representatives in Europe, America, and Canada. So If you are interested in this business transaction, forward to us your contact information so we can furnish you with the job description. Please if you are interested to work with us in good faith and honesty, get back to us by filling the information below:

Full Names..................
Full Address................
City........................
State.......................
Postal Code.................
Country.....................
sex.........................
Age.........................
Home Phone..................
Cell Phone..................
Fax.........................
Occupation..................
Company Name................

Very Respectfully,

Bowen Culbert
Managing Director
Culbert Cosmetics Company
5 Sheddingdean Business Centre
Burgess Hill, SussexRH15 8QY
United Kingdom 
culbert.cosmetics@gmail.com
Phone:  1273906031

"Culbert Cosmetics Company" is more obviously a scam, so clearly "Oak Spring Canola Farms" is too.

It turns out that scammin lawyers can be quite lucrative, but they do tend to follow established patterns. There's a pretty good repository of attorney email scams, some of which are quite hard to tell apart from genuine client enquiries.