The other day, I got an e-mail from someone named Emil Chepiga. The subject line was simply “Well well.”
Here is what the e-mail read:
Here is [NAME REMOVED] writing to you.
My age is 21.
Don’t you remember me? We met at the park.
I was at the party with my friends and we made some crazy and cool videos.
You must check the videos, here is the attachment.
Shampoo comma deodorant black barge
Bed chronometer lunge bra
Hope you like it. Keep in touch sweetheart
The name of the attached file was “grdokyux.htm.”
First of all, it looks like a 3-year-old wrote this (nothing against 3-year-olds, though). Or it’s someone whose first language is something other than English, which is probably more plausible. Plus it is confusing because the writer is talking about a park and then mentions a party and the fact that there are videos from the party.
Do people actually fall for e-mails written this poorly? This e-mail is much less convincing than some of the ones sent by Nigerian e-mail scammers. But it is beyond me that people will actually send money to those who send them these fake e-mails about how they are the great-grandson of a prince and need to get out of the country, but must make a financial transaction with someone in order to do so. In this particular case, you’d have to be just as ignorant to open the attachment. Good luck getting rid of the virus on your computer afterward.
