Spam

Por Thomas Jimmy Rosario Martínez

A veces me dedico a leer los mensajes electrónicos que son clasificados por mis filtros como spam, que no es otra cosa que basura mediática, ofertas truculentas y fraudes por medio de Internet. Ofrecen villas y castillos pero siempre quieren acción afirmativa de mi parte poniendo a su disposición mi intimidad financiera o mis recursos.

Inmediatamente que reciba alguna de estas ofertas, elimínelas. No crea lo que dice. Las habilidades de estos individuos y grupos  juegan con la inocencia de los bienintencionados. El Internet es una herramienta maravillosa de aprendizaje y comunicación, pero es también la guarida de piratas y de defraudadores a veces con símbolos y nombres conocidos que no son quienes dicen ser ni representan lo que dicen representar.

Estos son algunos de ellos:

1. Hello My Beloved One, i need your assistance,

Please bear with me i am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart.

I am Aisha Muammara Gaddafi, the only daughters of the embattled president of Libya, Hon. Muammar Gaddafi. I know my mail might come to you as a surprise because you don’t know me, but due to unsolicited nature of my situation here in Refugee camp Ouagadougou Burkina Faso i decided to contact you for help. I have passed through pains and sorrowful moment since the death of my father. At the meantime, my family is the target of Western nations led by Nato who wants to destroy my father at all costs. Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are their targets to freeze.

My Father of blessed memory deposited the sum of $5.8M (Five Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars) in Africa Develoment Bank (ADB) Burkina Faso which he used my name as the next of kin. I have been commissioned by the (ADB) bank to present an interested foreign investor/partner who can stand as my trustee and receive the fund in his account for a possible investment in his country due to my refugee status here in Burkina Faso.

I am in search of an honest and reliable person who will help me and stand as my trustee so that I will present him to the Bank for the transfer of the fund to his bank account overseas. I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust but rather take me as your own sister or daughter. If this transaction interest you, you don’t have to disclose it to any body because of what is going with my entire family, if the united nation happens to know this account, they will freezing it as they freeze others, so please keep this transaction only to yourself until we finalize it.

Sorry for my pictures i will enclose it in my next mail and more about me when i hear from you okay.

Yours Sincerely
Best Regard,
Aisha Gaddafi

2.elisa9463@tesco.net

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