Anava a escriure una blocada que estava preparant sobre una anàlisi del panorama polític català arran de les eleccions del 28 de novembre i m’ha sorprès trobar-me que avui mateix algú m’havia publicat un sota el títol Dear Beloved Friend.
Dear beloved friend,
I know that this letter may be a very big surprise to you, I am giving you my trust and wish you will give me back the trust i have given you . I believe that you will be honest to fulfill my final wish before I will die.
I am Mr. Evans Elisea , I am 58 years old, I am suffering from a long time cancer of the brain .From all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has reached a critical stage. I was brought up in a motherless babys home, and was married to my late wife for twenty years without a child . My wife and I are true Christians, but quite unfortunately, she was killed during the (ABIDJAN- BOUAKE) Crisis some years back.
Since her death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my belongings and deposited all the sum of $10.2million dollars with a security company In Ivory Coast where i lived with my late wife all our lives, as it was pakaged and registered as a personal Valuable.
Presently, this money is still in their custody, and the management just wrote me as the Legitimate beneficiary to come forward to receive the Deposit after keeping it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over as a result of my illness, Presently,I’m with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment. I have since lost my ability to walk about or do anything by myself and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.
It is my last wish to see that this money is invested in any business of your choice and the gain made every year or 6 months as the case may be, distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless babys home where I come from. I want your good humanitarian, to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around, 20% for you , I must let you know that this was a very hard decision, but I had to take a bold step towards this issue because I have no further option. I hope you will help see my last wishes come true.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the security company. I will also issue you a letter of authority, which will prove that you are the new beneficiary of my funds. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as
I stated herein. I will be happy if you can come down to Ivory Coast if possible.
Hope to hear from you soonest.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Evans Elisea.
Abans de llegir-m’ho, per si havia algun missatge o reinvidicació, he reaccionat pensant que m’havíen hackejat i publicat aquesta blocada sense permís. Algú pot pensar que picaria oferint-me el 20% d’una herència d’una persona desnonada?
Immediatament he començat a buscar aquest tipus de fishing sobre el bloc i he trobat que és una modalitat d’estafa a la xarxa. És l’anomenat “419” normalment són delinqüents de Nigèria i altres països d’Àfrica. Les víctimes de l’estafa se’ls promet una gran quantitat de diners, com un premi de loteria , herència, diners desprès d’haver-ne ingressat en algun compte bancari, etc.
Les víctimes mai reben aquesta fortuna perquè no existeixen, però són enganyats per enviar els seus diners als delinqüents, que romanen en l’anonimat. Amaguen la seva veritable identitat i la ubicació mitjançant l’ús de noms falsos i adreces postals falses, així com la comunicació a través de comptes de correu electrònic gratuït i telèfons mòbils de prepagament.
Encara que la majoria d’aquestes estafes fan servir correus electrònics enviats en anglès, també n’envien traduïts al francès, alemany, holandès, danès, suec, italià, espanyol, portuguès, rus, polonès i txec; a Indonèsia , fan servir l’Anglès i Francès en cartes que s’envien a través del correu postal, que generalment s’envien des d’Espanya.
Sempre han existit i crec que esistiran les estafes, amb les noves tecnologies han aparegut les anomenades ciberestafes, i en temps de crisi quan hi ha més gent amb necessitat d’obtenir diners encara s’accentuen més. Doncs és en aquesta època que hem de tenir els ulls més oberts!
ahh! i no dubteu, denuncieu-lo!