Finally, Someone in Nigeria–er, Russia–Needs My Help
June 8th, 2006
I don’t know what took them this time, but finally, five days after putting a virgin email address up on the main page, spam started coming in. A birthday present for me! Just one message so far–a Nigerian variant–but it’s beginning. I am adding it in the comments of the original post, where I will collect all future spam.
This Nigerian variant pretends to be a Russian barrister representing an oil tycoon who got arrested for bribing politicians, and needs to funnel $18 million through my bank account. I sent him my credit card number right away.
Oh, and the travel agency is still hotlinking to my image. Bless their hearts.
A most interesting experiment, thanks for letting us peek!
I could never take the Nigerian scam variants seriously, anyway, because of their horrible punctuation and fractured English. Is that done *deliberately* – as an attempt to appear ‘authentically’ from a non-English-speaking nation – or is it simply a result of the spammer’s lack of expertise in the language?
How could anyone (educated?) take letters like this seriously?