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by Breakwind Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:29 am
This is just a 419 scam, not to be confused as a charity scam as the title tries to suggest.

full title of scam:

HELP FOR PEOPLE OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE SAVE A CHILD AND SO MANY MOTHELESS MOTHERS


From Mrs Shawn Swain Mon Feb 8 02:40:09 2010
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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:40:09 -0600 (CST)
Subject: HELP FOR PEOPLE OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE SAVE A CHILD AND SO MANY MOTHELESS MOTHERS
From:
"Mrs Shawn Swain" <[email protected]>
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Many thanks for your willingness of trying to help us by reading this
email and.My name is Mrs Shawn Swain who was left alone without any a
word from my family or my loving husband.I am writing this email with
TEARS of Sorrow rolling down from eyes to my chin.I have never
experience such calamity before in my life.

Please dear one,as you can see,i lost all,my husband,my home and daughter
and now i can not boast of any thing any more,but only with the help of
you and yours friends, i can be able to live again and many others we has
escaped from the incident. We are many here PLEASE in the NAME of God,
please HELP US with any thing that touches heart.You can drop your phone
no and wait for directive from doctor in charge.We don't mind
food.,cloth,shoes,TV and anything you can send to help the motherless
babies and homeless windows.

Please reply us back to [email protected]
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by Breakwind Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:15 pm
Same exact scam, just different email address

From Mrs Shawn Swain Wed Feb 10 20:52:59 2010
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:52:59 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: CRYING FOR HELP FOR PEOPLE OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE SAVE A CHILD AND SO MANY MOTHELESS MOTHERS
From:
"Mrs Shawn Swain" <[email protected]>
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Reply-To: [email protected]
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Many thanks for your willingness of trying to help us by reading this
email and.My name is Mrs Shawn Swain who was left alone without any a
word from my family or my loving husband.I am writing this email with
TEARS of Sorrow rolling down from eyes to my chin.I have never
experience such calamity before in my life.

Please dear one,as you can see,i lost all,my husband,my home and daughter
and now i can not boast of any thing any more,but only with the help of
you and yours friends, i can be able to live again and many others we has
escaped from the incident. We are many here PLEASE in the NAME of God,
please HELP US with any thing that touches heart.We don't mind
food.,cloth,shoes,TV and anything you can send to help the motherless
babies and homeless windows.Please reply us back to [email protected]

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