Great Spam
We just received this awesome piece of spam in our mailbox, and we wanted to show it to our reader(s):
Dear Sir,
I am sending you this unsolicited mail because of an urgent need for your help.
I am Anastasia Pichugin from Russia. I am the wife of Alexei Pichugin the Chief Security officer of Yukos Oil. My husband is presently serving a jail term for murder that he did not commit. He is in jail because he refused to give the Russian Government information regarding the case of his boss Mikail Khordorsky who is also in a Russian jail, after the Russian Government sold his oil company Yukos.
After visiting my husband in jail last week, he asked me to look for a foreigner who will claim and invest the sum of $275million he kept with two (2) banks in Western Europe. He wants the funds moved because the Russian Government confiscated all his Estates in Russia and are now trying to have his funds abroad frozen, hence my contact with you.
I am urging you to help me move and invest the funds in your country. I have the paper of the accounts and will give you all the necessary information you may require towards moving out the money.
Please respond via mail for now as my phone is bugged and I cannot discuss with you on it.
Your earlier and prompt response will be appreciated.
Sincerely Yours,
Anastasia Pichugin
Do spam writers now employ screenwriters, because as spam goes, this one was pretty good. Especially humorous is the topical information about the Russian government seizing large industrial corporations (which they are doing) and the writer being the wife of security chief Alexei Pichugin (pro-Pichugin site) who has already been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder. The part about the phone being bugged, so email is the only way to contact "Anastasia," is also particularly great.
Oh, that's good.
Comments
Geoff DeOld says:
I've been getting those for awhile now. They're great.
The first paragraph from the one I got this morning:
Dear ; Friend,
First, I must apologize if my mode of first contact is not acceptable to you and also solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly private and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried My Name is Silvia Litana,I am the only dauther of late Mr. and Mrs Fred Nzinga Litana who was assisinated in 2002 during a political unrest that engulfed my Country Zambia recently. They where shot to dead my unknown Person(s) who where accusing him of funding and sponsoring a factional Political group with his money. So in respect of this they came to our House and shot everyone dead including my two younger Siblings by then I was not at home, But fortunately my Father did not die instantly that day. It took him three Months later after that incident before he finally gave up the ghost.
Posted by: Geoff DeOld at July 11, 2005 8:37 PM #
plemeljr says:
Nice... that's a good one. I remember someone on MetaFilter actually asking for people to sign up one of his email addresses in order to receive more spam because he was using it for book and story ideas.
Posted by: plemeljr at July 11, 2005 9:06 PM #
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