Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Spam Scam

You heard of the nigerian 419 scams? Those spam from "government officials" in nigeria?

I recieved this in my mailbox today: These guys have a new approach.

Greetings!
Please consider this a letter of appeal to philantrophic people like you.
This is to introduce to you my daughter ====, 17 years old, single and an out-of-school youth and is interested to pursue her college education probably in computer engineering.
The problem is that her parents cannot afford to send her back to school because of financial crises our family is suffering due to meager income of $153 a month which the undersigned is receiving from the City Government of cagayan de Oro, Philipines, where I'm presently working as a mere clerk in the Office of the City Public Library.
What about extending her necessary educational assistance for I believe you are capable to carry on to poor yet deserving students like her because I believe in your potential and integrity to aide people in need. She is an average student and even an honor pupil during her elementary
years at City Central School.
She wants to enroll in any computer school like ==== or=====) both in this City.
Could this possible, Sir/Madame.
Thank you very much! May God be with you always.
Sincerely,
======

Wow, asking for a sponsorship to study, this is definitely thinking out of the box.

on this topic, here's 419eater.com



These guys reply to these nigerian spam emails, and try to get a hilarious picture from the scammer and even try to reverse-scam some money from the scammer.


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