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Today I had (probably as one of many) once again a scam-e-mail in my box starting like this:

«Hello,
My name is Valentin. I'm 26 years old and I live with my mother in Russia. My mother is disabled and she receive indemnity from goverment which is not enough even for food. I work very hard, but due to the financial crisis in our country my salary was reduced and our situation became very difficult. (full text with header at the end of this mail) [...]»


The Website snopes.com sais about Scammer Valentin Mikhaylin:
Mikhaylin, a young man who lives in Kaluga, Russia, and who represents himself as a student starving and on the verge of freezing to death, has been spamhandling on the Internet since 1998. His e-mailed appeals are generally loosed upon the unsuspecting in November of each year, perhaps because the final month before Christmas tends to spark the charitable impulse in the greatest number of people, leaving a larger number than usual vulnerable to scams such as this.   >> continue reading

For more information check also the following link:
http://www.attivissimo.net/antibufala/valentin/valentin_russia_articolo.htm







The full text of the Scam goes as follows:
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:27:54 +0300
From: "Valentin"
Subject: Letter from Russia
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X-Scanned: 4PSA Clean Server on Nov 16 16:49:24

Hello,

My name is Valentin. I'm 26 years old and I live with my mother in Russia.

My mother is disabled and she receive indemnity from goverment which is not enough even for food.

I work very hard, but due to the financial crisis in our country my salary was reduced and our situation became very difficult.

The price for heating our home is very high and we cannot afford it anymore.

We worried and don't know what to do. I finded several e-mail addreses and thanks to free internet access in our local library I decided to appeal to you for help.

If you have two old sleeping bags, warm blankets, warm clothes and shoes, electric water-boiler, canned and dried food, vitamins, medicines from cold, any hygiene-products, I will be very grateful to you if you can send it to our address:

Valentin V. Mikhailin,
Ryleeva Ulica, 6-45.
Kaluga. 248030,
Russia.

We also need portable stove which heat with burning wood. We have many wood in our region, but we can't buy this stove in local market because it expensive for us. If you have any old portable stove which work with burning wood, we will be happy if you can donate it to us and organize transport of it to our address or help us to buy it in our local market. This ovens made from cast iron and weight about 150kg.

I hope to receive your answer. I also hope that this hard situation will get better very soon in our country.

Valentin.

P.S. I want to send you picture of us, but I don't have digital picture which can be sended in email. Please excuse me for that.



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