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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:56 pm

What's everyone's take on this?

From: [email protected] Save Address
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:49:51 +0100
Subject: pls help

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I am a male 16years old and a student in high school here in africa .
We are six in the family of which i am the only male child and the eldest
of them all .

Since my dad ran away and abadon us to my mum, my mum have been tring
to send us to school because she so much belives in education .

But the problem is she to have a job because she was not educated .
Because of this she wanted to go prostituting in order ro send us
to school but i dont want her to do so because it is very bad
With this I have to stop schooling in order to stop her from it and
to let my sisters go to school
My problem is,I want to open a store 4 my mum where she can sell food
items and others i have surcided in rent her a shob . The problem is i want
some money to bey her things to sell and she need refridgirator as well
so that she can sell cold food as well

Please if there is any kind hearted person out there hear my cry
and help me to help my mum .
Please my family needs ur help i want to go back to school , if my
mum was educated we will not have found ourself in the mess please we need
ur help
THANX FOR READING MY MASSAGE OUT ALL
nog peter

Also, I am completely computer illiterate. How does one trace the IP?

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:52 am

I got the very same one, (posted it yesterday in the surplus area).

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

BaathistCoup, you have a PM mate!

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:51 am

Doesn't sound like a scam to me, just internet panhandling. Panhandling in public in certain "hot" areas can be very lucrative. It is not illegal in the US, except for local law. It is done by anyone -- rich, poor, intellegent, or dumb.

*** BANNED *** Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 111

These ones dont deserve to be as tortured as much as the real bad ass's, they are begging and at least they admit it (even if there is lies to the story) it isnt fraud really.

Elite Baiter Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1709

the hell it isn't. As long as their story is not true, it is indeed fraud and a worse fraud than the classic 419 - for the victim doesn't have to be greedy and dishonest to be taken by this one, just kind hearted and a little naive. This kind of lad is my favourite victim and in my view they deserve to suffer worse than any - you need to be sure they are not genuine first of course.

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:30 pm

Most panhandlers in the streets always have a story line that is most likely false. Money for food for their family is really going toward booze. I don't think street beggars are nearly as bad as 419 types. I think in this case the real sin is using the internet for their purpose. We already get enough spam.

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:40 pm

Of course it's bloody fraud!!!

It strikes at a higher emotional level than "you have won the lottery" or "we have $10,000,000.00 for you"

I'd hazard a guess that this type of fraud would have a higher success rate than ordinary 419s.

Elite Baiter Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1709

Although I'm aware this is not a popular opinion, I find it hard to have much sympathy for the ordinary 419 victim. To fall for the classic 419 scam, you have to be not only stupid but willing to steal. A really honest person is at no risk with this type of scam. But the charity scammers are an entirely different ballgame. Unlike most scammers, their victims can be honest as the day, in fact as long as they are stupid, the more honest the better as they are even less likely to be suspicious. Besides the obvious evil of fraud and theft, they do a more insidious form of damage, incrementally chipping away at the general willingness to help those in trouble, and in this way, indirectly they steal also from the genuine distressed poor.

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:45 am

Actually this same guy has been posting this same scam for about two years now. I have probably deleted twenty of them from him. I did bait him a bit as well, he doesn't stick around long, about three mails is all.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

I've baited this guy before......gave up on him though after he told me to send money through Western Union, then acted like he had no clue what I meant by "control number" and "test question/answer".

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:17 pm

if sb here has (new) letter like this, pls PM me it with headers thanx

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:32 pm

We've seen this letter doing the rounds for quite some time. I think its a 'standard' begging letter used by many lads, in the same way as an Abacha or plane crash are standard themes. This is the non-419 'poor family which needs help'. It's all lies and those who don't fancy doing the usual 419 (or have had little success at it) try this instead.