Have you seen this spam before?

[ichauch]

So poor Valentin is a student who managed to get my email address ( ) and now pleads for medicine, clothes, heaters... Rrright.

Dear Friend,

Please excuse me for any inconvience caused by this message.

My name is Valentin. I'm student and live with my mother in small city in Russia. My mother is invalide. She cannot see and she receive pension from the government very rare which is not enough even for medications.

I work very hard every day to be able to buy the necessities and medications for my mother, but my salary is very small, because my studies still not finished.

Due to the extreme cold weather in our region (minus 32 degrees Celsius), the heating system does not work very well and the temperature is very cold in our home. I do not know what to do and I'm very afraid that if the temperature will be lower than 0 degree in our sleeping room, we will not survive.

I applied to local Red Cross and they explained me that many people ask them for help since the extreme cold came to our region and they cannot help to each family. They adviced me to search help from individuals.

Thanks to free Internet access in our local library, I found several addresses, including yours, and I decided to appeal to you with a prayer in my heart for a small help. If you have any old used sleeping bag, warm blanket, warm clothes, portable heater, canned food, vitamins, water boiler, medicines against cold weather, any hygiene products, I will be very grateful you if you could send it to our home address:

Valentin Mikhailin,
[Some address]
Kaluga, 248030
Russia.

If you think that it would be better or easier for you to help with some money, please writes me back and I will provide you with details how to send it safely, if you agree. This way to help is very good, because in this case I will be able to buy a portable stove and heat our home during the winter.

I hope to hear from you very soon and I pray that you can help us. I also hope very much that the weather will be warmer very soon

I wish you all the best in the New Year. I wish that all your dreams come true in the New Year and your life be filled with joy and happiness.

Valentin,
Kaluga. Russia.

I wonder what he plans to do with all the used stuff he thinks he'll be getting.
Anyway: Go and freeze to death, Valentin! F***ing spammer.

[reyz007]

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no, i have good antispam software
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[Sickthing]

I think it's the next big thing. Cyberbegging.

I don't get many spams, good anti-spam. But I got one today that informed I had one 500K pounds and I should contact their legal department at some yahoo address.

Could people really be stupid enough to fall for that?