Oct 26, 2007 21:39
This floated into my inbox just now:
This is simple request for help to dis crease damage which is become in fires which is rage in California.
In fires that rage in whole California these last days , it has been destroyed many houses and damage is calculated on over 1 billion dollars.
People who is moved from their destroyed houses , they are settled in schools and group shelters temporally until fire storm is calmed down.
But when they abandon that temporally shelters and schools , then they will need help.
Let`s gather that help NOW!
It is`t small amount of people who was left without anything , withouts houses and roof over their head . . .
In this moment there is over 500.000 of people , and they are in secured objects right now.
When this fire nightmare is over , and that fire get under control , then with gathered money for them we can start imidiatlly to rebuild their houses.
If you want to donate and help that poor people , you can send some small amount of money on paypal account number that is opened for one reason , to collect enough money and help poor people.
To help them to get over their pain and help them to forget hell that they been come trough , they lost everything they had , not just homes , they lost their faith and everything.
So please help them.
Address of paypal account is next:
helptocalifornia@googlemail.com
From all my heart,
Dominic Salgado
Fortunately, besides being an asshole, this guy is also a huge fucking moron. He CC'd several hundred other people on his mail list on the e-mail, and in fact someone beat me to hitting "Reply to all" and pointing out that it's an obvious scam, in case anyone on the CC list is also an idiot.
I think that much of his address list was mined from USENET, because I scanned through the CC list and actually recognized several people, heh.
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