Comments on: Charity Begins at….. Russia?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:15:45 +0000

Now I’m feeling jealous – I never got the photo with my email

By: geoffrey swain

geoffrey swain — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:10:05 +0000

I received the Elena wood stove scam e-mail in early October ’09, ejected it then went into it to flush out how they got my e-mail address. I have had two computers stolen in the last four years, suspects are workers from the eastern block ‘working’
in Portugal. She has survived two Russian winters and looks fine and well fed in ‘her’ photograph. Maybe ‘Valentin’ is her ‘gone’
boy friend plying the same trade…..from Geoffrey Swain, Portugal.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:41:49 +0000

I got the Elena one about two years ago (she called herself Olya then, but the text was identical) and I thought at first I would just ignore it. But then I thougt let’s scam the scammer. I had quite an interesting time with these emails, although a lot of times she didn’t answer any of my questions, just sent some standard texts with poems and nature descriptions. When she finally came up with her request for money, I said I would gladly send her some along with a good policefriend of mine who would be travelling to her town shortly on some other business. After that I never heard from her again. Even the email adress disappeared and the mailserver said it didn’t exist. By the way, I could trace the origin of these emails as far as Oregon, America of all places.

So yes, this is a verified scam.
(Nice looking pictures of her, although the woman in the pictures probably don’t even know they are being used for scamming)

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:07:29 +0000

If only doing that wouldn’t cost so much…

By: plenty

plenty — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:25:28 +0000

got one from “elena” today too…
i suggest we send these guys iron cast stoves which they cannot use or sell… just pile them up in front of their homes or rather on them…
: )

i imagine though the postal address doesnt really exist..

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:44:43 +0000

I guess that means this email format has been met with success then!

By: That guy

That guy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:11:35 +0000

from Elena
to elenaga@zumail.ru
date Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:48 PM
subject Hi

Hello,

My name is Elena, I have 32 years and I write you from Russian province. I work in library and I can use computer after my work when possible. I finded your address in internet while visited some sites and decided to write you this desperate letter.

I have daughter – 8 years, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother.

Due to financial crisis my mother lost job and our situation became very difficult.

The prices for gas and electricity is very high in our region and we cannot use it to heating our home anymore.

The winter is coming and weather becoming colder each day. We very afraid and we don’t know what to do.

The only accessible way for us to heat our home is to use portable oven which work with burning wood. We have enough wood in our region and this oven will heat our home all winter for minimal charges.

Unfortunately, we cannot buy such oven in our city because it price equivalent of 191 Euro and very expensive for us.

If you have any old portable oven and in case you don’t use it anymore, we will be very grateful to you if you can donate it to us and organize transport of this oven to our address (200km from Moscow). This ovens are different, usually they made from cast iron.

I will be waiting your answer.

With deep respect from Russia,
Elena and my family.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:23:35 +0000

I’m shocked that this one is still going after 2 years!!

By: Fojtik

Fojtik — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:13:59 +0000

I have received a same stuff. It looks like sent from Netherlands not from Russia (I have removed my own Email ):

Received: from smtp-4.orange.nl (smtp-4.orange.nl [193.252.22.249])
by ns.penguin.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2482309797E
for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:38:58 +0100 (CET)
Received: from smtp-4.orange.nl (mwinf6306 [10.232.3.34])
by mwinf6305.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 82BFB1C0E991
for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:33:04 +0100 (CET)
Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mwinf6306.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6D3E370000B5
for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:33:04 +0100 (CET)
Received: from cd44069d0.cable.wanadoo.nl (cd44069d0.cable.wanadoo.nl [212.64.105.208])
by mwinf6306.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with SMTP id 2A016700009D;
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:32:58 +0100 (CET)
X-Me-Uuid: 20071216173300172.2A016700009D@mwinf6306. orange.nl

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:29:55 +0000

I’ve got a good idea what a mugu is