Monday, August 06, 2007
Spammed by gold sellers
From time to time I get spam e-mails like this one:
Dear Sir.With the gold price on the legitimate market being above $20,000 per kg, offers like this must be scams or illegit. I always wondered why spam mails are in such horrible English, who would believe somebody selling gold for $2 million speaks like that?
This above company from mali is willing to do business with any interested gold buyer around the global to do long term business with mutual understanding.so any interested person should mail to us with the full co-opeartion. The below is our full co-operation offer.......
FULL CORPERATE OFFER
The management of Kenoli Investment And mining co,ltd in bamako under penalty of perjury and with full corperate responsibilty has with the fellowing alluvial Gold for sale.
PRODUCT : Alluvial Gold Dust
QUANTITY: 220kg
QUALITY : 22.5 of carat (92.6)
PRICE :$10,000 PER KG
DOCUMENTATION : All document for export will be prepared by the seller . A representative of the seller will accompany the buyer to his destination.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Best Regards,
Mr mohammed toure
Contact Information
Contact Name: Mr mohammed Title/Position: CEO
But the interesting thing is that the spammer thought I might be interested in buying gold dust. I don't think this is the kind of spam everyone gets, or is it? So I'm wondering whether having a blog on which virtual gold buying is regularly discussed got me on some list of potential buyers of real gold. Kind of funny to meet this other sort of gold seller spammers.
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Well, our chineese partners write every mail in pigeon-english like that. And i am not sure that russian-english on this side is much better =)
Yeah, but that could hurt.
I must be on the wrong email list, Tobold. All I get are offers to increase the size of my penis :(
I must be on the wrong email list, Tobold. All I get are offers to increase the size of my penis :(
We are local miners of Gold dust and Diamonds here in Ghana West africa and we have a good quality and quantity of the same products for sale at the Local market rates, interested buyers are hereby requested to contact us for further details.(heritage_family(AT)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in
Your sincerely
Mr Owusu Mensah
(Sales Director)
Your sincerely
Mr Owusu Mensah
(Sales Director)
Normally I would have deleted comment spam like the above. But in this situation it is so hilariously funny how the spammer doesn't get the context of the post that I'll let it stand. I trust you not to fall for the scam.
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