The Diagnosis? Enjoy your trip

Finally Simon Replies

August 17th, 2007 at 11:22am

Last month I wrote about the peculiar spammers who were sending out spam which claimed to be from a bored female who wanted to chat with someone.

I decided to reply to a female by the name of “Simon” to try and work out why the spammers had bothered to send out these emails which seemed rather pointless due to the fact that there wasn’t any obvious opportunity for them to make money from the emails.

Well, after nearly a month, Simon has finally replied, but with a different name:

From: Margarita <ritulia@freemailserve.biz>
To: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Hello Simon

Hi my new friend
Im glad to see that you have decided to reply,I see it is very short letter.
It is all right because you are astonished to get my letter.
I want you to know that I have only good intentions and I have not any secrets.
The thing is that I will work in your country for three months or so and
I would like to meet a nice man to fall in love or just be closest friends.
I don’t want to live in Russia because I have not any chances here,
it is hardly possible to explain from first time but I want you to know my plans.
I will work in any shop, bar or restaurant the agency that i am going through will suggest me some locations.
It will be my choice in the end as to what option to go for.
So I will have a simple work till I improve my English. And I can choose any
town of your area,agency will only help me to get a visa and all travel documents + some suggested placed to work in.
My best friend last year met the man from the USA when she worked there for three months, too.
She had two jobs. From morning till 4 pm she worked in amusement park and after it she worked as a waitress in some bar till midnight.
She was very tired of course but made very good money there.
It is special programm for young people who wants to work abroad and I think it is the right way for me ,
I am lost here,and I think that I look pretty enough to find a better place .I want to repeat the same way,it is
only my chance to meet a nice man.I want to work in USA or in Europe or any
nice country. I am full of plans and different dreams and I want to share my
life with good man because I’m also full of love and tenderness,I know that
I am not so beautiful like Hollywood Princess but I do hope to meet my Prince and
I am sure he will be not be disappoined to meet me in the real life! This is why I am going to go through the same way.
Well,I will close this letter and I do hope to get your reply.
I will leave russia in two weeks or so (I can’t tell you everything exactly
right now) and I would like tobe sure that I have the man who waits for me there. I will work all day and I want to find a man to spend all free time
together to get to know each other better.if you have any interest to meet me I will be more than happy to meet you too.
I will tell you all details about me and my life if you like my pictures and
want to meet me! please send picture of you too!!!
I write to you with my new mailbox ritulia@freemailserve.biz, please write
letters now only on this mailbox.
I will wait your next letter.
Kiss you , Margarita (this is my name)!

Following this Margarita remembered to send through some photos. I won’t publish them here as I don’t know where they were stolen from, but they are fairly modest photos of a mildly attractive female who doesn’t look even remotely Russian.

I waited a couple days before replying, but I have now replied.

From: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com>
To: Margarita <ritulia@freemailserve.biz>
Date: Aug 17, 2007 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: Hello Simon

Hello my dear Margarita,

What a lovely name you have. I must say that it is much better than the name you originally emailed me with…out of interest why did you call yourself Simon? Was it to protect your identity? If so I think that is most marvellous and clever of you.

I must say that your plans do sound most interesting, and I’m sure that you will be a most welcome addition to this wonderful country that I live in, Australia.

Right now it is raining but it will be sunny again soon. The sound of the rain on the roof is most delightful, and I’m sure that we will be able to share many nights listening to the rain on the roof.

We also have wonderful radio stations in this country, and I’m sure that you will enjoy listening to wonderful people on the radio with me.

As requested I have attached a picture of me. I hope that it satisfies you. It was done before I started to wear glasses, but I’m sure you will like it anyway.

I most eagerly look forward to hearing from you again.

Regards,
Samuel (This is my name…isn’t it interesting that we have different names? It surely proves that we are destined to be together!)

I think I’ve worked out the scam. The next step this spammer will take will be to get my financial assistance in travelling from Russia to Australia.

To that end, I wrote that email in such a way to make any sane person disinterested in being my partner. A spammer however won’t care how insane or ridiculous my message is, they will continue with their scam due to the fact that I am actually replying to them.

Would you like to know what picture I sent to Margarita? Well I took advantage of the fact that she said “picture” and not “photo”, and sent her the following picture of myself:
Picture of Samuel
(Click to enlarge)

I cut the copyright line off the bottom of the image that I sent to Margarita, but I’m sure you would agree that any sane person would not reply to me again after seeing that picture attached to that kind of email.

I eagerly await the spammer’s reply.

Samuel

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2 Comments

  • 1. Pen 15  |  August 17th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Can you post Margaritas picture, Sam?

  • 2. Myself  |  August 18th, 2007 at 6:41 am

    Lol… I also talk with the same girl ! And she want to come to Canada too. But she never answer my principal question : HOW SHE GET MY EMAIL ADRESS ? I asked her 3 times… still no answer.
    Will she come in Australia or Canada ?? Answer in some days… ^^

    I hope the “spamer” have fun cause I have ! 😀


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