Phishing?

[Mike]

Originally Posted by half geek

I received this message through my team's webmaster@ email address. Google has no records of "Genexis Technologies." I am trying to determine if this is a spider looking for keywords or following links from robotics web sites, or (seemingly unlikely) legitimate. Has anyone else seen this?
Cheers.

"Dear Sir,

We are a singapore based company specializing in Robotics Educational Products and hightech education.
Our focus is in providing the best means of technology & academic education with the means of Robotics as a platform for teaching.

Our microcontrollers include products like,
- PIC Controllers
- MSC-51
- Basic Stamp
- Fujitsu
- Javelin Stamp
- PSoC
- MSP430
- Motorolla M68HC11
- i-BOX

and sensors like,
- CMUCAMS
- Force Sensors
- Gyro Sensors
- Compass Sensors
and much more...

Our Robotic Kits are also in many varieties and low in cost as well, which are very suitable for educational learning for schools.

We would like to explore the possibility of providing our robotics products for school as well as Robotics competitions as well.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Genexis Technologies.
genexis_tech@yahoo.com
Singapore."

Immediate things that pop out:

• @yahoo.com, they can provide all this but can't afford a $9.95/year domain?
• Singapore. Although most tech-related companies are more prevalent in Asia, a good sign of something phishy is some kind of international address. See: Vietnamese botnets and Nigerian scams
• Random capitalization. Why would a huge "official" company capitalize things that aren't proper nouns? (Robotics Educational Products, Our Robotic Kits, etc.)
• Not-so-perfect grammar. If I remember my 8th grade grammar class, it should be " Our microcontrollers include products such as,". I think using "like" is grammar-legal in informal conversations, but if I were to propose my products to a potential client, I would make sure it's formal.
• Also, "our microcontrollers include products". Wouldn't it correctly be "our microcontrollers include brands". A microcontroller is the product, they list different brands of microcontrollers.
• Redundancy in sensor listings. They already stated that they are going to list sensors, so theres no need to add "Compass Sensor, Gyro Sensors, etc."

I wouldn't trust them. Ask them for something similar to a business license, or a website, or a phone number to call, etc.

-Mike