Thread: Anybody Else Get This Email?

My troupe director forwarded us this email that she suspected to be a scam:

Best Regards,
We are the office responsible for arranging travel and vacations for some VIP Arab personals, we are also responsible for entertainment and event coordination. One of our main events is called, Royal Arabian Night, which is an exclusive party, with selected guests, this party will be host in an open green grass land with Arabic rugs, Arabic music, Middle Eastern food and our guests will be wearing the traditional Arabic cloths. We are looking for 5 ladies to perform live belly dance on the front of our guests. We would expect you to perform for a complete hour; our guests are very respectful, upscale and appreciate the art and talent you have, indeed, this party will be photographed and videotaped and we shall get you a copy of them.
This party will be in many cities including Cleveland, Ohio. We want your services for the Cleveland event.
If you cannot perform, can you please refer us to anyone you may know who are interested, please give us the cost you will charge us for this hour for the 5 dancers.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks

The email address was from royal.com I did some research and found who owns the domain (Gerald Gorman). Discovered he's some internet business guy but his name has been linked to several scams, like the lottery scam and a few others regarding domain name sales. It's unclear if it's really him doing this, but regardless I thought it best to respond very cautiously. She asked for a contact name and said she doesn't do any deals via email and needed a name & phone number, as there was no person name or company name in the original email. They sent back some form email that said her info was forwarded to the secretary of the Office of the Crown Prince:

Thank you for contacting the office of the Crown Prince. Unfortunately we
cannot provide you with a mailing address or a phone number, but your message
is very important to us.

Please be advised that your e-mail has been forwarded to our general secretary.
We will respond to your message shortly and we will do our best to make sure the
Crown Prince hears from you personally.

Respectfully
The Office of the Crown Prince

It looks like a scam, it sounds like a scam, it smells like a scam... I guess it's a scam!

It's interesting how this appears to be a message from someone who isn't quite fluent in English (you are invited to entertain "VIP Arabic personals" at a party which "will be host in an open green grass land") - and then in the middle we find: "We want your services for the Cleveland event." And at the end, the folksy and thoroughly American closing: "Hope to hear from you soon." It's a letter wandering in search of an identity!
Now the Crown Prince is a nice touch. They forgot to mention which country he is crown prince of, what his name is, whether he was educated at Oxford, Princeton or Yale, and why he hired this embarrassing person to arrange his American intinerary.

This is the best part though: "We are looking for 5 ladies to perform live belly dance on the front of our guests."..l;,
Rosette

Originally Posted by Rosette

This is the best part though: "We are looking for 5 ladies to perform live belly dance on the front of our guests."..l;,
Rosette

They might want to try club Erotica for *that* kind of live belly dance...

This screams scam. And I think they've got it confused with erotic dancers. We are exotic dancers, there is a big difference!