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I’d prefer dating scam spam…

100% safe…since there’s ususally a photo included, but you can’t have it all, another Anghela is hard to find. So this mail here (the image on the right was not included) is just a generic 419 scam – except that it’s not from Nigeria but South Africa (or at least claims to be) –, promising a multi-million sum for a pretended money transfer.

And, alas, the senders translated their English (which is maybe not completely perfect, and at any rate quite complicated for automatic translation) automatically into German, making it somewhat funny – in German, that is, so this is not really something funny for you English readers, sorry… Let me just mention that their statement about this business being “100% safe” turned into “100%-Safe”, i.e. a 100% safe/vault, hence my little image on the right.

Their English original (which they also included) isn’t really worth reading, but for the sake of completeness, I included it here:

Show the English scam text ▼

“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. :mrgreen: 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”!

In October, “her” name’s now Lauren…

Shout as much as you want! *

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…

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

Super high-quality spam distribution

“Because” of that, they send Russian spam distribution offers to German mail addresses:

здравствуй Предоставляем супер качественные Эл. Почтовую рассылку

Without punctuation marks (except for the abbreviation); Altavista and Google translate that to (not literally) something like “How do you do we offer super (high-) quality e-mail distribution”.

Bad thing is, there is still “enough” spam floating around, regardless of any such errors in form and content.
:motz:

Why can’t all spam coming from Russia be as pretty as Anghela, Nadezhda & co??