International Conference on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Child Abuse/Labor in Africa 2007
This is slightly different from the other scams categorised here, but is closest to a charity scam in having a good cause as the central theme. It came to me from someone I had warned previously asking for my opinion - which is clearly A SCAM
Of course it is quite repugnant to use a charitable cause as a means to steal money, but one thing that sets this apart from the usual scam is the high standard of English used in the mail. It all falls down, because no one seeks participants in a conference of this type by trawling the internet for people to attend.
The money will be required for visa fees or some other imaginative expenses, which sounds like a good deal as they offer to pay air fares, but seeing as there is no conference, only you will pay anything - and you'll get nothing in return.
There were some pictures of a US girl attached. The last one of her wearing a police peaked cap. She is likely an innocent individual whose pictures are being abused to make it appear more personal. I haven't reproduced due to the likelihood she has nothing to do with the mail.
This is slightly different from the other scams categorised here, but is closest to a charity scam in having a good cause as the central theme. It came to me from someone I had warned previously asking for my opinion - which is clearly A SCAM
Of course it is quite repugnant to use a charitable cause as a means to steal money, but one thing that sets this apart from the usual scam is the high standard of English used in the mail. It all falls down, because no one seeks participants in a conference of this type by trawling the internet for people to attend.
The money will be required for visa fees or some other imaginative expenses, which sounds like a good deal as they offer to pay air fares, but seeing as there is no conference, only you will pay anything - and you'll get nothing in return.
There were some pictures of a US girl attached. The last one of her wearing a police peaked cap. She is likely an innocent individual whose pictures are being abused to make it appear more personal. I haven't reproduced due to the likelihood she has nothing to do with the mail.
From: Sandra Jones <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: It's My Pleasure Meeting "U.
Hello Dear,
Thanks for your letter.
Sometimes life certainly can feel that way...and what better shelter
from the storms and trials of daily life than friendship and to know
that there is someone out there you can fall back on. Sometimes people
come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be
there...to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure
out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these
people may be but when you look eyes with them, you know that every moment they will affect your life in some profound way. And sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck, illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved,
straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly
pointless, the people you meet affect your life. The successes and
downfalls that you experience can create who you are and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones. So if you're seriously looking for a friend to get to know, you have finally found me. I'm glad to meet you too. I'm Living alone at my own apartment given to me by my father. I'm the second child of my parents. My parent have two children, one girl and a boy by name Marcus and I'm last child. The name of my father is Williams Jones and my mother's name is Monica Jones. My father is a
Ex-Military Officier to the US Army while my mother is one of the senior
personnel of US Congress House Committee on Education and Labor here in California. I'm single and haven't marry once. I hate lies. I love
some one who is trustworthy and does not smoke nor drink. Some times
I'm always busy with the job activities. I've been opportune to have
traveled to many countries around the globe in our course of executing our work and visiting some HIV/AIDS patient and refugee camps in other
countries. I will be attending a combined International Conference on
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Child Abuse/Labor in Africa this year 2007. The
conference is scheduled to hold first in U.S and followed by the one in
West Africa (Senegal). As one of the Organizers of the fourth coming
combined International Conferences on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Child
Abuse/Labor taking place in the US and latter in Africa (Senegal), West Africa, we are inviting two to five (2-5) delegates from each of the selected countries around the world. In our request to invite delegates from the selected countries, I went in search of e-mail on the website as a
means of contacting interested delegates and Organizations in
these countries. I picked your e-mail from a pen pal website. You will
assist us in relating to one of the existing Organization in your
country to contact the Conference Secretariat in the US through this e-mail add: [email protected] or fax number: +1-208-575-6945 But before they could be considered for participation in this most esteemed event, their Organization will have to forward to the above address the following requirement:
1) The Organization profile
2) The Aims and Objectives of the Organization
3) Their Achievements so far.
With this information put into consideration by the Organizing
Committee , they will be officially invited to participate in this
Conference. Our independent donor will take care of their round trip Air flight tickets from their country of resident to U.S, U.S. to Africa (Senegal)
and from Africa (Senegal) back to their various country of resident and
their Accommodation throughout their stay in the U.S. and the
Organizing Committee will process the U.S. visa for all participants requiring entry visa to the US with the assistant of our Immigration Advocates.
Participants will only take care of their Accommodation during the other
event in Africa (Senegal). As one of the Organizers i knew not of
anybody from your country, hence my writing to you is to gain assess to any existing Organization in your country. If you are really interested to
participate and want to represent your country, you should contact the
Secretary to the Organizer for full detail information on
registration procedures and inform the Organizer that i Sandra Jones recommended you. You need not to forward the above requirement for
your group or Organization registration, hence i will give your
recommendation to the Secretary. You are to contact the Organizer as soon as possible as all participants visa request will be forwarded to the U.S. Bureau of Immigrant Affairs for Authorization the same day. Any group that did not forward their visa request on that same day with others will miss the visa assistance. You are to form a group of two to five (2-5)
persons. Your group can be of different nationalities but all should be
leaving in the same country for easy U.S. visa assistance. For your
information two groups can be register from one country cos one of the
group will be used to represent the country that couldn't be able to
participate or present delegate.
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Thanx,
Sandra Jones.
U.S.A
