I’m going to make a fair bet that this is evil…

The original formatting was, of course, much much worse…

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:45:15 +0100
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
From: “lee.jimmy@tiscali.fr” <lee.jimmy@tiscali.fr>
Subject: TSUNAMI VICTIMS PLESAE HELP.

THE RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL AMSTERDAM/NEDERLAND ZONE HEREBY APPEALLING TO YOU FRIENDS,PUBLIC,FAMILIES AND COMPANIES, TO HELP US WITH ONLINE FUND RAISING TO ENABLE US TREAT OVER 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN AFFECTED WITH QUAKE/TSUNAMI DESASTER ACROSS ASIA.VISIT WWW.CNN.COM/TSUNAMI TO SEE WHY YOUR HELP/MONEY IS HIGHLY NEEDED. HELP THE NEEDY,POOR AND SICK,NO AMOUNT IS SMALL FOR GOD LOVES A CHEERFULL GIVER,SEND US YOUR DONATION/CONTRIBUTION IN HOLLAND THROUGH WESTEREN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THE NAME OF OUR FINANCIAL OFFICERS

(DR AMANDIO CONCEICAO) AND (TEDDY OGBEBOR ) RESPECTIVELY, PROVIDE US WITH THE TRANSFER DETAILS INCLUDING YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS ON OUR OFFICIAL E-MAIL ADDRESS: .smithfmith@netscape.net N.B,DONATORS FROM 100 TO 4500 EUROS WILL ONLY HAVE THEIR NAMES APPEARED IN OUR RELIEF MAGAZINES AND WEBSITES WHILE THOSE FROM 5000 TO 50,000 EUROS WILL HAVE A SPACE FOR THEIR FOTOS,NAMES AND BUSINESS ADVERTS IN OUR MAGAZINES AND WEBSITES AS DOES IN PAST YEARS.SO (VIP)S PLEASE SEND US YOUR FOTOS AND BUSINESS DETAILS.

THANKS FOR YOUR COPERATIONS

JIMMY LEE.

Comments

2 responses to “I’m going to make a fair bet that this is evil…”

  1. Chris Samuel
    re: I’m going to make a fair bet that this is evil…

    Looks as dodgy as all hell.. 🙁

    There are two example of Tsunami scams at http://www.fraudaid.com/tsunami_fraud/tsunami_scam_letters.htm and they both use Netscape.com email addresses too..

    More examples are at:

    http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/giving/giving_article.jsp?articleId=1551

    Sigh..

  2. Dee Lee
    re: I’m going to make a fair bet that this is evil…

    I wish I was naive enough to believe that others would not be naive enough to send them $. 🙁

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