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Shout as much as you want! *

2008-05-07

Yuliya 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 also

Ok, 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.

Experience requirements for money launderers are rising…

2008-05-01

At least this spam mail, which I received a couple times in the last few days, seemingly indicates that – well, they probably just want to pretend respectability with all that fuss, e.g. people with “strong judgment” will hardly fall for that… (emphasis mine, and of course I added the photo):

verhaftetHello, webmaster.

Business Days, Inc currently has an opening for Customer Relationship Manager in the U.S.A and EU.

Responsibilities:
Prompt processing of incoming money transfers in real-time mode.

Education and Experience:
– Bachelor’s degree (optional)
– MBA/MS preferred
– Program and Project Management experience preferred
– Strong communication and influence skills
– PMP certification a plus
– 1-3 years financial services preferred

Knowledge and Skills:
– Strong project manager skills with a proven history of estimating and delivering projects on time, on budget, with high quality.
– Ability to establish, maintain, and monitor full project lifecycle plans for mid-scale to complex projects
– Ability to participate in identification of and planning for future resource needs.
– Demonstrated ability to balance priorities and simultaneous projects.
– Knowledgeable in technology, either gained hands on or through exposure to working with technology groups.
– Ability to work well independently and also be a strong team player.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both analysis and technical subjects.
– Strong negotiation and influence skills, particularly within customer interactions.
– Strong judgment, issues management and problem analysis techniques in order to work across the firm with both technical and business organizations to resolve conflicts and deliver functionality.

Requirements:
– US/EU Citizenship
– Valid TAX ID/TIN
– Registered Company (must register upon request)
– Computer with Internet access
– MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel)
– Valid DL or any other ID with photo
– Home phone and mobile phone

PLEASE VISIT OUR SITE TO APPLY RIGHT NOW!
http://vendasoinvestas.net/

No, don’t “apply”, that’s criminal…

Photo © khz – Fotolia.com

K´neip`e

2008-04-21

Bayrische`s Eck

Here an accent as apostrophe, there another accent as apostrophy – as long as there are more than necessary…

Though the pub (this is an announcement for its opening) is actually called “Bayrisch’s Eck”, if I remember correctly.

(4/2008)


Anghela’s friend Nadezhda

2008-04-14

Dating scammers – remember Anghela and once (regrettably without photos) Galina – are, of course, not that rare. This new specimen now does send country-specific mails, but without a second automatic translation – which, on one hand, doesn’t make it that intrinsically funny, on the other hand saves me the effort of trying to translate wrong German into wrong English as I did with Anghela’s mails…

Nadezhda 1 Hello! How are you? I hope that all good for you and you will read my letter with a interest. — Of course I will, but I don’t think you mean the same kind of interest as me. See, I just want to make fun of mails like yours, and you’re a confidence trickster… At least, thank you for not writing such huge mails as Anghela or Galina – even though you, too, seem to know nothing about how to use line-breaks and paragraphs.

I the girl from Russia. — C’mon, there’s only one girl in Russia?? The others all found guys to date and marry in the west? Wow, good luck for me the last one found me and no-one else! :lol: — My name is Nadezhda. I am from Saint-Petersburg. I have fair hair and blue eyes. — Don’t look that blue to me in the photos. But, well, guess you never know; people have been asking “what color do my eyes look in this picture?” before… Oh, was that you, maybe??

I’m cheerful woman who like to go for sports and do all what like are usual peoples. — No need to hem and haw, say it that you like to do “it”. And, well, I’d do unusual people, too.^^ Or do you mean “do” in the sense of swindle, ruin, defeat? Doesn’t seem that far-fetched… — I am ready for creation family — What “creation family”? There’s no “creation family” here, and since that sounds like creationism-ish crap, I don’t want that.

I got your e-mail through internet dating agency. I gave my letter to agency and they have told that my letter will be send to man in Germany!!!! — Yeah, sure. But hey, you even got the country right, supposedly from my mail address’s top-level domain. Bravo! Then why didn’t you auto-translate this mail to German? Anghela used to do that… you’re not actually aware of the funny, hard-to-understand language these tools produce, are you? 8O

Nadezhda 2Some time back I’m with my girlfriend were going to go in your country as tourists for search of men for serious relations. But my girlfriend could not go with me. She had problems with your family. — What?? She didn’t know me – hey, I never even met Anghela – and already got problems with my family? How’d she know them? — It will be great if you can meet me and we can to have relations with you. — Erm, meet you, Nadezhda, or you and your girlfriend? I mean, not that I’d mind “relations” with two women at the same time, but… d’you really know what you’re writing about?

I hope that you will answer to me back it is very fast. I send you my photo. I hope that you will love my photo. — Well, you sent two. Alright, they’re hardly your photos, but anyway… and oh, you really modified your text since you sent it to Canada, (other than changing the country, of course), where it read “I hope that you will love wash a photo.”. Aww, wish I’d reveived that howler…

Well then, can I hope for more mails from you, “lovely_froggy@yahoo.com”, since “nadezhda” means “hope”?

:loll:

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PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these photos that the scammers used: a brief e-mail is sufficient and I’ll remove them. Or do you know the actual source?

PPS: By sheer coincidence, this is actually the 419th post in my blog…

Ban! Liberate Virtual Cards!

2008-04-10

No, nothing about Tibet – instead, another automatic translation from Russian (possibly via English) into German giving a potentially dangerous spam mail a funny side:

Guten Tag! Bei Ihnen die neue Postkarte. Bekommen Sie nach dieser Verbannung!

Sie haben eine virtuelle Karte erhalten!
Sie konnen die Karte innerhalb von 30 Tagen ansehen, unter der Verweisung gehend:
http://golloret555.xxxx/card/xxxx
Klick der Verbindung auf oder Kopie es zur Adressbar des Internet-Browsers.
–––––––
Befreien Virtuelle Karten!
golloret555.xxxx

Which re-translates to English like this (trying to translate wrong German terms into wrong English terms):

Good day! At you the new postcard. You receive after this ban/banishment!

You received a virtual card!
You can view the card within 30 days, under the relegation going:
http://golloret555.xxxx/card/xxxx
Click of the connection on or copy it to addressbar of the internet browser.
–––––––
Liberate Virtual Cards!
golloret555.xxxx

Well, it’s nice to receive something after being banned/banished… but the most harmless things that can happen when you click that link is that the pretended error page showers you with ads (which parts of the source code indicate – I didn’t open it in a browser) – such pages are known for trying to use security holes to infect the computer with lots of malware (cf. German Antispam Forum), so:

:arrow: Don’t click! There’s no card there!

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