Do people actually fall for these emails?
 

I got this today and I wonder do people actually fall for these things, really??


Hello,

My name is Valentin, I am a student and I write you from little Russian city.
I found several addresses on Internet and I decided to send you this letter. Our local library give free Internet access for students.

I live with my mother, she cannot see since many years and I take care of her. My father left our family when I was a child.

I work very hard every day, but because of deep financial crisis my salary is very little and not even enough for the things of primary necessity.

Because of extremally hot weather during this summer most of the potatoes and vegetables get withered in our garden. A lot of forests burned.
We were forced to spend all our small savings to buy something to eat for the comign winter to avoid starvation.

Electricity and gas is very expensive in our region and we can not afford to heat our home anymore.

The only way to heat our home in winter is to use portable oven which heat with burning wood. We have wood savings in our shed and this oven would heat our home all the winter, at no cost to us.

Unfortunately, we can not buy such oven as our local market, because the value of it 8,300 rubles, and is a great amount for us (the equivalent of 197 Euro).

I decided to appeal to you and I hope you can help us. If you own any old portable oven and if not using anymore, I'll be very grateful if you can donate it for us and organize transport of this oven to us (we live 200 km from Moscow). These ovens are different, usually made of cast iron and weigh about 100kg.

Please let me know if you can help and I will write you our home address.

If you cannot help with the stove, may be you can send two old sleeping bags- we will be sleeping inside of them during the nights and we will not freeze.

If you need, I can send medical documents about the disease of my mother.

I send you best wishes from Russia,

Valentin and my mother.

POSTSCRIPT: Please apologize for the mistakes in this letter, I translated this letter with the help of computer-translator and dictionary. Thank you.

Unfortunately some people do. :/

welcome back Jess:wavey:

Thank you Niamh. :love:

Only stupid people would actually fall for it.

omg... we have to help him.

Only the dumbest of the dumb would fall for it.

I wouldnt help them either way....

Russia? Bitch please, it sounds like you're from Africa.

:laugh2:

aw Jayson, you're so sweet:love:

il give him the money only if he strips for me though

I got one kinda like that a few weeks back, only they were asking for towels, I usually get the ones from the "Nigerian bankers" offering to share part of their fortune :hugesmile:

I got one. I get loads, but I never read them.

One even said how their house had burnt down, and their dad died in the house and everything.

Wanted me to get them over to this country for a better life. Would pay me loads and loads of money from their dad's inheritance.

I only get crap from africa asking me to give them my paypal so they can give me 5 million ponds.

Im not greedy so I decline. Kind of them to offer though.

*sends credit card details*

OMG you are one mean person!!!!!

LOL only joking. Who would be so IDIOTIC!!!!

OMG you are one mean person!!!!!

LOL only joking. Who would be so IDIOTIC!!!!

LOL I never fall for them, but I always save them because some of them are just so bloody hilarious. Like when you get someone called Chuckie asking to "nominate your bank account".

When we went France, this female walked up to a guy in my year, and gave him a note saying that she needed money, her mother had died and she hadn't ate for two weeks.(She wasn't just handing it to the same person, she was bothering everyone) But anyway, this guys gave her £20! But the thing is, she was wearing a Versace dress and had Gold Teeth.

I got one from a man the other day who wanted me to keep his 5 billion dollars safe until he returned home from helping his sick uncle in India. It makes you feel for the innocent people that believe these things are true and share their card details.

who would help them anyway if they lived in russia

Have you seen Drag me to hell!!

An old women came up to me in Paris asking for a cigarette, she had one eye!!

I thought she was going to curse me!

France is full of those. They would get more if they stopped annoying everyone!!!

LOL