The colloquy of Patrick West

Someone forwarded a spammer's email to Spamnesty, which replied to the email, pretending to be a person called Patrick West and starting a conversation.

This is that conversation.


Spammer

  • Subject: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 22, 2016, 10:48 p.m.

Good Morning,

*About us:*

We are Testhouse, an independent software testing company head quartered in
London with offices across UAE, US and offshore centre in India. We
specialize in automation testing using tools such as QTP, Load Runner,
Selenium and Visual Studio and are valued partners for industry standard
tool vendors such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Experitest.

*Some of our key offerings:*

- Automation & Manual Testing

- Performance & Security Testing

- Mobile Testing

- Cloud Testing

Please feel free to suggest a suitable timing to schedule a telephonic
discussion and we are willing to do a free POC. Our hourly rate will be in
the range of $16-$20 and some of our customers includes Beck Technology,
Emirates NBD, Transport for London.

Kindly visit our website www.testhouse.net inorder to know more about us.
Thanks and look forward to hear from you!!

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 22, 2016, 10:48 p.m.

Hello,
That is very interesting! Could you elaborate? Do you have any details online I could look at?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 24, 2016, 5:02 a.m.

Patrick,

Hope you would have taken a glance at our website and the attached corporate brochure in the previous mail. Will truly appreciate if you could let us know on your convenient time to discuss.

Please let us know if you require any further information from our end.

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 24, 2016, 10:22 a.m.

Hello,
That sounds great. What sort of volumes are we looking at? What can you reasonably provide, and what turnaround times are we expecting? We're a pretty agile organization and would like to expedite delivery on this.

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 24, 2016, 11:18 a.m.

Hello Patrick,

We are an independent software testing firm headquartered in London with offices in India and Dubai. We currently have a good bench strength inorder to handle your testing requirements and our past expertise in handling various applications would surely help us in delivering a perfect services for MNesty.

We would be able to discuss regarding the commercials only after analyzing your requirements and our standard rate for US clients varies in the range of $16 to $20. But, since this project would give us an entry into Mongolian market for the first time, we would certainly offer an reasonable pricing to MNesty.

Regarding turnaround time, we could go with either dedicated resourcing model wherein our resource(s) will be deployed offshore for a fixed monthly charge or we could go with fixed bid model wherein the effort estimate will be based on your requirements/application functionalities.

We have experience in offering software testing services for organization working on agile methodology and could make use of this experience for MNesty.

We would usually begin our offshore engagement with a free proof of concept, wherein we would be taking a piece of work from your existing application and would work on it and submit detailed report/show a demo. Kindly let us know on how to proceed further with our engagement.

Thanks and look forward for your reply!!!

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 24, 2016, 5:52 p.m.

Hi,
I'm just waiting to hear back from the board. Could you perhaps offer some discount, to sway them?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 25, 2016, 4:48 a.m.

Hi Patrick,

Can we get into a call today or early next week inorder to discuss further regarding the requirements, pricing, etc..? Please let us know on your convenient timing so that I could send you an GoToMeeting invite for the same.

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 25, 2016, 1:19 p.m.

Hello,
That sounds like a fantastic offering, can you give me a bit more information on it?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: Fwd: Re: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 26, 2016, 3:04 a.m.

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Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 26, 2016, 12:03 p.m.

Hello,
That sounds like a fantastic offering, can you give me a bit more information on it?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 28, 2016, 9:27 a.m.

Hello,

Kindly let us know on how to proceed further with our engagement.

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Nov. 28, 2016, 1:52 p.m.

Hello,
Sounds great to me. Do you have some hard information about this that I can share with the board?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Spammer

  • Subject: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Dec. 1, 2016, 10:44 a.m.

Dear Patrick,

Will truly appreciate if you could let us know regarding the status on your end.

Spamnesty

  • Subject: Re: FW: RE: FW: Testing on Software
  • On: Dec. 1, 2016, 2:33 p.m.

Hello,
That sounds like a fantastic offering, can you give me a bit more information on it?

Patrick West
CEO, MNesty, LLC