Profile for jenraskopf - Your friend is probably not penniless trying to fight HIV in England

jenraskopf aka Jen is a 27.42 year old girl, has been a member since December 13, 2006, has scored 4622 submissions, giving an average score of 3.01.

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Oct 14 '09 by jenraskopf

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Your friend is probably not penniless trying to fight HIV in England

We just got a spam email from a friend whose account got hacked. It claimed she was in England penniless in a hotel after getting robbed while on a mission trip.
Calling her though, we find that she's having dinner in Manhattan.
I figured that even under extreme duress, she would have better grammar.
Keep an eye out.

Steve The Great on Oct 14 '09 at 6:17pm

Spam69 on Oct 14 '09 at 6:19pm

Did they use the actual name of someone you knew?

jenraskopf on Oct 14 '09 at 6:21pm

Yes. And it seemed to come direct from her email and claimed she couldn't use her phone.

They wanted us to raise and wire $1500 to pay for bills and a flight back.

littlem on Oct 14 '09 at 6:28pm

i got one of these types of emails, too. but it said she was stranded in a 3rd world country or something.

i think your friend is penisless and fighting aids.

Spam69 on Oct 14 '09 at 6:28pm

Fuck. Can they do that? Could it have been someone using her Computer and E-mail account?

sonmi on Oct 14 '09 at 6:30pm

i heard a segment about this on npr a while ago. it must be spreading!

Neuroplastcicty on Oct 14 '09 at 6:38pm

They are doing it with E-mail and social network sites.

lordog on Oct 14 '09 at 6:39pm

hey jen, long time no talk!

yes, spam69, they can spoof email quite easily.

brentendo on Oct 14 '09 at 6:44pm

no joke, I actually got an email from my brother saying he was stranded in France and had had his passport and money stolen. Though it was obviously fake because I'd literally spoken to him an hour before

jenraskopf on Oct 14 '09 at 6:54pm

Dear person,

Please go to the embassy and leave me the hell alone.

Have a nice trip, good luck fighting HIV.

t4sh4 on Oct 14 '09 at 6:56pm

why the heck did I read that as "penis-less" what's wrong with me :|

jenraskopf on Oct 14 '09 at 6:57pm

And just so everyone here knows, if I have your email address in my book, I'll let people know BEFORE I get robbed and need you to wire me $1500.

Also, I'll probably stay in a cheaper hotel if I'm off doing charitable stuff.

Spam69 on Oct 15 '09 at 6:08am

I don't think it's very effective as a scam. Most peoples first reaction would be to contact the friend by phone before sending money to check the're ok and do the OMG what happened stuff. It might work on rich friends who don't really want to talk to you. I don't have any of those.

Friends with money I mean.I have plenty who don't want to talk to me.

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