A Letter from Elena

Reading out a scam mail I received a few days ago:

"Hi,

My name is Elena, I have 31 year and I live in Russian province. I work in library and after my work I allowed to use computer when it possible.
I finded your address in internet and I decide to write you this letter.

I have 7 year daughter Angelina, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother.

Due to crisis recently my mother lost job and our situation becomed very difficult.

Price for heating our home very high and we cannot afford it anymore.

Winter is coming and weather becoming colder each day. We worry if the temperature will become cold in our home, we don't know how survive.

For heating our home we need portable stove which give heat from burning wood. We have many wood in our region, but we cannot buy this stove in local market because it cost equivalent of 193 Euro and very expensive for us.
If you have any old portable wood burning stove, we will be very happy if you can donate it to us and organize transport of its to our address or help us to buy it in our local market.
This oven are different, they are from cast iron and weight 100-150kg.

I downloaded our picture to free website and you can see it at:
http://elenadda.nextmail.ru/ourpicture.jpg [Note: contains no virus as far as I can tell]

I hope to hear from you soon and I hope that our situation will become better in the New Year.

Elena."

Have you received any scam mail for Christmas? Post a video response :)

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[Pomonastyler]

You could make the voice for Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV ;D

[Redfrettchen]

@Pomonastyler haha, true. I've just watched the trailer :D

[Lyes99dz]

I got this email this morning and found your email by Googling some key words. The scam is still going on. I was not lucky enough to receive hot pictures from "Elena"

[Redfrettchen]

Yeah, it's pre-Christmas time already, apparently.

[Lyes99dz]

I found your video not email.

[Lyes99dz]

When you think that there are needy people in this world that you can't help because of these scammers.

[Redfrettchen]

I'd have to resort to Pidgin in any case, since I'm using Linux almost exclusively.

[saraswati81]

it's compatible with msn just that none of the functions other than msging work.

[Redfrettchen]

Dang, Yahoo is the only instant messaging service I don't have an account on. Or at least I can't remember having ever created one, but you never know...

[saraswati81]

lol sorry, apparently all my yt notifications were in spam and i had no idea. :P well, i'm old school. been on the net way before there were webcams and voice chats. i'm never on skype. yahoo is where i'm at. just on skype occasionally when yahoo fails. i'm a geek who prefers typing and multitasking. only one i talk to on skype is my mom. lol she has to find me on yahoo, first.