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Hopping to hear from me

Peace Khalifa The continuation of “Peace Khalifa’s” love scam mail with the strange word “teassting”, or more precisely, “her” second mail – the subject was:

HOPPING TO HEAR FROM YOU

jump - by GreenSmilies.com Video, please! Even though your bust size doesn’t seem that large, I’d really like to see you hopping in order to hear from me. Oh, is your ear clogged, and you’re trying to get it free this way?

Or do you mean the harvest of hop? You’d be at the perfect place here in the Hallertau! So hurry up, the hopping is almost done!

Hello my Dearest.
My name is Peace from Liberia in West Africa ,5.3ft tall, dark in complexion,(never married before )

Texts in parentheses often are used to give an explaination or reason for the text before. So your being unmarried is the reason for your dark skin color? Now who would have thought that…

and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country.My late father Dr Wilson Khalifa was the personal advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and killed my mother and my father in cold .It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to a near by country Senegal where i am leaving now.

And where are you going now? Or did you mean “living now”? And, well, I think it’s amazing that you managed to take your modeling photo with you – most people had rather thought about more important things.

I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently.

A hobby that I’m also performing right now is making fun of spam and scam mails with writing and/or translation mistakes. What I don’t like: Criminals like you.

But I thing that you are not really that interested in these things, you just want money.

I will tell you more about myself in my next mail.Attached here is my picture and I will send another picture in my next mail.I will also like to see your picture.

So you can see what that moron that fell for you looks like? Do you scammers collect such photos as trophies, like some scam-baiters do with specially arranged pictures (with signs etc.)?

Hoping to hear from you soonest
yours in love
peace
rose

And, as already announced last time, there’s already the hint that one is supposed to help the “poor fugitive child” to transfer her inherited fortune out of country. But before that, there will of course be fees to pay, fees and more fees, and you’ll never see anything of the promised millions, since that’s just the way these scammers work.

And it’s not the first time that “she” is perfoming this stung, already last year “she” was active with basically the same text using the first name Sandra (though the first mail seemed to have been missing)…

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?

» Part 3: The full life story?

A hard choice and an error

Before we start with the photos, two web finds from my Montreux trip:

train schedule bookmark

Translation:

Note:
Dear customer, [male and female]
Thank you!
Your team of www.bahn.de
Code:
All information without guarantee

Note to self: There’s no use bookmarking the train schedule information that can be reached from the travel information/booking site because they produce this informative error message (with page title “error”) later on.

bahn.de Sep 2008



choose your internet access

Translation:

Please make your choice:
24h unlimited access to entertainment and internet: 0 CHF
24h internet access: 0 CHF
1h internet access: 0 CHF

A hard choice for picking the internet access options in a Swiss hotel (with intenet included in the room price)… should anyone really prefer the third and default option?

Sep 2008


By the way, the hotel – the Eden Palace – also offered dozens of movies and music albums for free, accessible via the TV that was extensively equipped for such hotel use (and even greeted me by name1 when I first entered my room) – however, it was a relatively small CRT model, no flat screen.

  1. on the display only, of course ↺

48 Spaces

asian memory Warning: It will be a little techical here ;) – but maybe just ignore the details, you still can get what’s odd here, so in case of doubt just read the bold print…:

From the SMBios/DMI info for memory modules that are supposed to be set by the BIOS, ideally taking the info from the modules’ SPD EEPROMs:

Manufacturer: 48spaces
Part no.: 312345678901234567890123456789012345
Serial no.: 31234567

And the same for all four slot info items. How did that go, did someone say to his colleague programmer: “Nobody cares about these fields anyway, just write 48 spaces into them”?
aargh, another one of these bugs! ;)


Photo: Lev Olkha – Fotolia.com

Popular soft, lowest quality

Another badly translated German spam mail – do they really hope to sell something this way??

I tried to reproduce the meaning in English here:

Popular soft for PC and Mac

…with “soft” translated like “mellow, smooth,…” and not as short form for “software”…

All Europe uses our software
ms of lowest quality at highest level.
— All programs for PC and Mac
— You can choose, the programs in the own language http://[removed].com

Lowest quality at the highest level, who wouldn’t like that? The sender was “Deutsche software.com|” (incl. vertical bar), by the way.

Or in this variant (also to be seen at “Unser täglich Spam”, German):

Hi
Sell software
Best take and the best service.
— All programs from Microsoft and Apple
— Our programs translated and adapted to the users speak French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, English.
Will the talk with you soon. http://[removed].com

Sender: “Best deutsche soft.com|”. No, will the talk with you never.

The Tonnendreher (German) got another version…