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“You can see more my photo’s”
Dating scam spam just keeps on flowing – now it’s a pretended Helen from the USA who wants to find friends, and if it really was an American who wrote this, (s)he’s not better than an automatic Russian–English translation program, not only because of the silly plural apostrophes:
You can see more my photo’s
Hallo, my name’s Helen
Im 28, i live in Ashville NC, USA.
I am woman who’s looking to meet some new people and friends.
You can see more my photo’s and about me
at my Website Home Page: http://[…].110mb.com
if you wanna chat plz send me letter.my peronal e-mail: kurey.helen@gmail.com
i’ll be wait 4 your letter with a great impatience
Helen
p.s Du darfst mir auf dem Deutschen schreiben.
Ich verstehe ein wenig Deutsche die sprache.
The last two lines in wrong German re-translate to “You may write to me on the German. I understand a little Germans the language.”
The page (on a normal free hoster; I downloaded it with an editor, so there might actually be a browser switch that tries to infect e.g. Internet Explorer) is kind of a profile page with a few brief specifications where the city now is called “Asheville” and where she dreams about the sea and finding friends, “and if any good things developed from a solid friendship, then it would be a great bonus!!”
Yeah, sure, that’s why “she” sends the mails via a Norwegian PC (probably a zombie) with a different sender name & address.
I won’t publish the enclosed photo this time – not because it were pornographic, but because I’m scared its kitschiness might scare off my visitors. 
Just as the other photos that are linked to on that page (which were apparently grabbed elsewhere, as the path names indicate, and which don’t contain any malware according to VirusTotal) could hardly be more kitschy.
Update: To summarize the German comments below (thanks!): “She” kept mailing the same mails to many others, mentioning “she” were back in Russia and the language becoming typical for automatic translation, “she” hardly or never reacted to what the men replied, wants to know address and airport, and finally wants money – and there you have it, just a typical love scam. So just ignore “her”!
This had to happen…
…that I’d find a certainly odd scene this week which now becomes an addendum to week 20 of the photo Projekt 52 with the topic “odd, strange, peculiar things” (click here for my first post):
Links of the Week (2008/19)
- The Hello World Collection: “Hello World” programs in hundreds of programming languages (via Nerdcore).
- The best Jesus sightings – from pancakes to dirty cars (via BA).
- A funny spot of a no smoking campaign (via horchnet).
Shout as much as you want! *
Discoveries of the day:
- Alleged 100% Polish girls pretending they’d like to come to Australia are asking – unlike alleged half-Polish half-Russian girls saying they want to go to Germany, see below – not immediately for name and age and thus only demand 5 instead of 10 minutes of our valuable time.
- Dating scam spam, despite including photos, is getting more and more boring, because their English is getting better (maybe because they use simpler Russian as basis for their automatic translations) and no additional automatic translations into German are used anymore. (At least as far as my mailboxes are concerned.)
- The scammers are apparently not dying out, as well as those falling for them, since then they wouldn’t mail their stuff anymore.
Greetings from Russia
Greetings from Russia, city St-Petersburg to you dear friend!!!
I hope that you will read this letter with interest and answer to me soon.
I don’t know how I can start my letter to you.
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL READ THIS LETTER VERY ATTENTIVE!!!!
PLEASE, IT WILL TAKE ONLY 10 MINUTES, BUT PROBABLY MY LETTER WILL
CHANGE YOUR LIFE...........
FOR THE FIRST!!! THIS LETTER FROM INTERNET DATING AGENCY!!!!!!
I GAVE THEM THIS LETTER AND TO ME HAVE TOLD THAT THEY WILL SEND LETTER TO SINGLE MAN IN GERMANY.
This letter will be short, I think.
But if you will answer to me I will write more about me and about my life.
My name is Yuliya. I’m from Russia, city St-Petersburg.
I’m 1/2 Russian and Polish. My father from Russia. My mum from Poland.
I sent my pic to you, so you can see me. I hope that you will like it.
I’m 26 years old woman. My Birthday on May, 28, 1981
The purpose of my letter: I will get the Visitor Visa on May, 2008.
I want to arrive to Germany, but I have no any friends or relativies who
can meet me on airport. I really hope that you can do it for me.
Probably we can develop our relations also.So, please, write me on my personal E-MAIL: yuliya.logvin@gmail.com
I hope that you will have interest after reading my letter.
Also I have interest also. Please tell me:1 – Your name
2 – Your city
3 – Your age
4 – Send me your photo alsoOk, I will close for now, but I will wait your answer so much!!!
I really hope that you will give me chance to have meeting!!!
Waiting for your answer,
Yours friend Yuliya from St-Petersburg
Well, I would have preferred a real “new Anghela”…
PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of this photo that the scammers used: a brief e-mail is sufficient and I’ll remove it. Or do you know the actual source?
* If you don’t understand the title “Shout as much as you want!”: WRITING ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS is regarded as shouting in e-mails & co.