Genuine or spam? Tsunami

Just received an email (misspelt and all in caps) asking for money for
tsunami relief. From , Janzen Hall is the
contact person.

This looks genuine, but with all these Nigerian scams I wonder.
Is this genuine or another scam? They ask for euros.

(Here in New Zealand we have several organisations to which money can be
donated, and the government has just announced a large contribution.)

Geopelia

 

Yeah, it's gotta be genuine. It's a normal part of non-profit fund
raising to misspell things and use all caps, only pretending to be
idiots. As for the europe.com domain:

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Why does it look genuine, when misspelt and in caps?

The website of red cross Netherlands is www.rodekruis.nl, and Janzen Hall
is not a Dutch name. You can safely consider it scam.

 

Dear geopelia:

You already know the answer, don't you?

Regards,
Ian.

 

I think this is called sarcasm! CG

 

| Just received an email (misspelt and all in caps) asking for money for
| tsunami relief. From , Janzen Hall is the
| contact person.
|
| This looks genuine, but with all these Nigerian scams I wonder.
| Is this genuine or another scam? They ask for euros.
|
| (Here in New Zealand we have several organisations to which money can be
| donated, and the government has just announced a large contribution.)
|
| Geopelia
|
Genuine or not doesn't matter. NEVER give out money, banking info, etc., to
ANYONE who contacted YOU first. Phone, email, etc. NEVER NEVER NEVER!!! If a
telephone solicitor says "I'm from your ..." (fill in the blank), and it
sounds legitimate, don't believe it. Get a number where you can call THEM
back. If they won't give you a number, hang up. Same with email. Consider it
junk.

If you want to help with tsunami relief, wonderful! Call the local office of
the Red Cross or some other international aid organization - one you can
trust - and that YOU contacted first. That way you know you are dealing with
the real organization.

 

Thanks everyone. How can people try to cash in on something like this?
Fortunately we have our own fund raising in NZ, and we couldn't send euros
anyway.

Believe it or not, two wretched ratbags actually stole collection jars from
shops, but were caught on camera. Some people need shooting.

Geopelia

 

Very good advice, thank you. I wouldn't have sent any money to the scam, but
I wondered about that email. There are many Dutch people in New Zealand who
might have considered it seriously.

Many reliable organisations including the Red Cross are raising funds here.
There are numbers we can phone to donate $20 each time to be charged to our
phone bill.

Geopelia

 

I'd just like to remind everyone that this is the same silly bint who posted
back in November claiming never to have heard of eBay!

 

I doubt the Red Cross would send out emails.
Call your local office and ask them how and where to send donations too.
DO NOT send anything to an email supplied address. It's a scam.

 

Well, you haven't included the original email but if you want to
contribute to the relief operation and you know of legitimate
organizations which will be glad to take your money and live up to the
charity standards of your fair trading authorities, why send money to
a spammer?

The U.S. FBI has warned of Tsunami-oriented scam spams and I have
gotten at least one which, from its headers (use of PHP Nuke on a
third party server to hide the origin IP) and format (one webmail
address near the top and another near the bottom - perhaps in the hope
that the second address would not attract as many spam complaints and
mailbombs) appeared to come from an associate of a Nigerian "Bank
Manager".

 

When I looked up in groups.google.com, I
found a report of a spam complaint in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings.

The reported spam went through tiscali.fr webmail from a Concepts.nl
IP which has also been used for various Nigerian 419 scam spams. (I've
got $50 zillion to put through your poor emaciated bank account,
you've won El Fraudo lottery, and you have to send me a fee or your
bank account info to collect your winnings)

If you write to abuse at outblaze.com (europe.com is theirs) he might
send you a cute note which tells how they've killed their daily quota
of Nigerian Generals, relatives of dead African dictators, et alia. I
think they've been too busy to reply in recent months.

You might also want to alert postmaster at redcross.nl, which is the
real thing.

 

Thank you. I don't know much about computers, but I think someone would
already have reported this. I just forwarded it to Xtra's spamreport. I can
tell most spam, but this one looked almost genuine.

Some people are rotten. They even steal the money jars for the tsunami from
shops! Two were caught here on security cameras.

Geopelia