scam alert..

jackdaw

I got this email

Hi,

My name is Valentin. I'm 26 years old and I live with my mother in small town in
Russia.

My mother cannot see and her indemnity is not enough even for food.

Due to the deep financial and economic crisis in our country recently I lost my job
and our situation became very difficult. Now I found new job, I work very hard but I
was told that this work will be only for a short period of time.

Gas and electricity became very expensive in our region and we cannot use it for
heating our home anymore.

I don't know what to do, because the winter is coming and the weather will be till
minus 30 degrees in the next month. 

I finded several e-mail addreses and thanks to free internet access in our local
library I decided to appeal to you for help. 

If you have two old sleeping bags, warm clothes, electric water-boiler, canned and
dried food,  vitamins, medicines from cold, hygiene-products, I will be very
grateful if you can send it to our address:

Valentin Mikhailin,
**********
***********
******
Russia.

If it easier for you to help with some money, please let me know and I will write
you how to send it safe.
It will enable us to buy portable wood-burning stove made from cast iron and heat
our home during the whole winter, becase we have 
wood in our region.

I hope to receive your answer. I also hope that this hard situation will get better
very soon.

Valentin.

anyone else get it .. it's not like the usual scams...

usually they just ask for money straight up ..

KilOit

Aww crap i already sent money, are you sure it's a scam?

Rabies

Its code for scam

Steve

I'd say its OK, Send me the money - I'll pass it on to him.

MagicMarker

Fúck! She thinks she's got it bad!!! I can only afford 4 takeaways a week now!

Quazzie

Ask for her bank details and a copy of her passport because you need to make a deposit.

Then forward to Mugabes mates and see what happens.

Zangetsu

Have you got the address? I have some contributions for them...

(*fills bag with poo*)

Dancor

I got wood in my region too rusian girl :pac:

Vegeta

Economic downturn, energy becoming expensive. We have enough of that here thanks.

Prof.Badass

Ask her for a phone number and also a picture of her with her mother, to make sure she's genuine.

Then post the picture and number here + on various other websites for the laugh. The pictures they give are especially amusing.

Also prank the number.

m@cc@

You'd think he would have got enough 'donations' by now.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/valentin.asp

biko

In Russia the sleeping bags YOU!*


*weak I know but just came up with it...

Quazzie

biko wrote: »

In Russia the sleeping bags YOU!*


*weak I know but just came up with it...

Somethings are better left in your head. You do know you don't have to post every random thought that pops into your head!

Prof.Badass

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Somethings are better left in your head. You do know you don't have to post every random thought that pops into your head!

Unless you want to get a high post count and don't mind shocking/offending people on a regular basis.

EDIT- 500th post Wooooooh!

Dragan

Tell her to cease her internet connection bill and sell her computer.

I'm sure she can raise some clams that way.

Quazzie

Dragan wrote: »

Tell her to cease her internet connection bill and sell her computer.

I'm sure she can raise some clams that way.

She states that she is using free internet access in her local library

MIN2511

For a second i thought it was another Nigerian scam, blimey these Russians are smart!!!


I would really like to know the statistics of people actually falling for such scams


I was scammed recently on adverts.ie(I sent a bank transfer) and never received the item...

And i thought i was smart

Homer

MIN2511 wrote: »

And i thought i was smart

Mistake Number 1

Turd Ferguson

Whats her address? I may fly over to Russia to give her a roide. She thinks she has it bad now, wait till she's handcuffed to her bed.

Gummy Panda

OP i think you should help her.

Imagine she turned out to look like this and you could've been her white knight

Turd Ferguson

Gummy Panda wrote: »

OP i think you should help her.

Imagine she turned out to look like this and you could've been her white knight

yeah, but she probably looks like this

Jumpy

biko wrote: »

In Russia the sleeping bags YOU!*


*weak I know but just came up with it...

You need to get it right.

IN MOTHER RUSSIA BAGS SLEEP IN YOU.


Without caps it is not a valid mother russia reversal.

Prof.Badass

Sorry to disappoint, but i think Valentin is a dude!

jackdaw

You know .. I think I will bait this ...