Elena's scam
Yesterday I received following email scam from Russia, a variation on the common Nigerian and Lottery mails.
Hello,
My name is Elena, I have 31 years old and I live in Russian province.
I have a 6-years daughter, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother. Recently my mother lost job due to old age and our situation became very difficult.
During the last months the prices for gas and electricity became very high in our region and we cannot use it to heat our home anymore.
The winter becomes colder each day, we very afraid and we don’t know what to do.
The only accessible way for us heat our home is to use portable stove which give heat with burning wood. We have a lot wood in our region and this stove will heat our home all winter for minimal charges.
I work in library and after my job I allowed to use computer. I finded your address in internet and may be you can help us.
We need portable wood burning stove, but we cannot buy it in our local market because it is expensive for us. May be you have any portable stove which you don’t use anymore, we will be very grateful to you if you can donate its to us and organize transport of its to our address. This stoves are different, and they weight between 70-150kg.
I downloaded picture of me and my daughter to the free website and you can see it here:
http://mailrus.ru/free/users/elenafed/ourpicture.jpg
It is not very good quality, but it will show you how we look like.I hope to receive your answer.
Elena.
Russia.
Michaël from Belgium answered her and they directly made some mistakes in the reply. Since then they adjusted the scam message and now directly include the photo link. In another variation she is asking for ‘old sleepings bags‘.
Let’s hope, that there are not too many people who actually loose some money on this, believing they actually help someone.
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