Spotted in my spam file:
... I have been totally disabled for the past eight years. I cannot work out of the home and I am trying to live on my social securoty.[more "pity me"crap cut out]I contracted with an advertising company . This company does addvertising for Universal Studios and a few more. They have asked me to get names, the town you live in and your and telephone number. For evey one of these they will pay me a dollor.
The only thing that you would get is one advertisement from the compay. Do you think you could do that for me? I will be so grateful to you... [sure.. and then my name and number will end up in someone's email box..]
The mispellings are a nice touch.. ends with a name and number which is listed under that name in Wallingford, CT (the town I work in.. ).. and on usenet on a BBS list from 1995 (heh).. but the IP originates in NYC .. so either this person is really, really stupid for listing her name or some poor woman is now being flooded with phone calls from irate spammed people..
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"The only thing that you would get is one advertisement from the compay. Do you think you could do that for me?"
Just the one eh? I'd love to help but i'm too busy helping various Doctors and other fine and upstanding members of their community smuggle money out of their countries. maybe next time.
#My friend recently got a new variation of the got-millions-and-need-help-to-transfer-it one, and this time it was Mira Markovic (the wife of war criminal Slobodan Milosevic).
And the Feedback column of New Scientist magazine (www.newscientist.com) recently got one supposedly from a former Saddam aide... same story.
At least they're imaginative, huh.
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