There’s desperate, and then there’s this:
From: Shinto Yabamoto
Date: April 8, 2011 2:27:41 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Assistance for Tsunami Japan 2011 Victims.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Shinto Yabamoto resident in Spain. We have other japanese families living as a community here in Spain. Our family members were severely affected by the recent Tsunami earthquake that happened in the pacific ocean that devasted Tokyo and led to the lost over 13,000 lives and properties worth billions of Dollars.
We implore to help the earthquake victims that lack food and shelter. We have established a distribtion channel to these victims. You can send your gifts and aids as cash by western union money transfer system to our division responsible for the distribution of food, shelter and medical assistance using the information stated below:
FIRST NAME: SHIZUKA
LAST NAME:TADASHI
ADDRESS: CALLE VELAZQUEZ 8
28010 MADRID.
After making the payment send the payment details to the Assistance Distribution Section as stated below:
SENDER’S DETAILS:
FIRST NAME:
LAST NAME:
MONEY TRANSFER CONTROL NUMBERS. (MTCN)
COUNTRY:
ADDRESS:
Email: shinto_yabamoto@yahoo(dot)co(dot)jp
Thanks for your assistance to the need of humanity of the Japanese people. May God richly blessed and also expand your territory in any field of your endeavour.
Yours truly,
Shinto Yabamoto
Thanks for that, Shinto, if that is your real name – which it isn’t.
Another one for the “fire into the heart of the Sun” pile.
Christopher Boyd (Thanks to CSO Andy for that one)