a real live spammer

nancyuwa22: hi

me (not my actual yahoo id): hi

nancyuwa22: how are you today

nancyuwa22: i know this will be suprise to
you

me: i am fine, how are
u?
... it is a surprise

nancyuwa22: fine

nancyuwa22: i sent you an email now

me: who are you?

nancyuwa22: i am nancy from west africa

nancyuwa22: and u

me: from india

nancyuwa22: ok

nancyuwa22: have read you read my mail

me: no i'm just signing in now,... i'll let you
know

nancyuwa22: ok

me: i checked my inbox, but i did not receive it
yet,... what is it about?

nancyuwa22: is about help from you

nancyuwa22: hello

me: did you get my
message?

nancyuwa22: from were

me: i don't trust you, i think
you are a spammer

nancyuwa22: what did you mean by spammer

nancyuwa22: hello

me: spammer -
someone who sends unwanted email (often in
bulk) spam - Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent
indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk
e-mail.

nancyuwa22: are you there

me: there is the explanation to the meaning of the words spammer and spam

me: i have been receiving a lot to spam lately and
i don't know which one is a real person with real concern

nancyuwa22: i personaly send you that b/c will
naver do to my fllow hunman

nancyuwa22: what ma tall you is the trut

nancyuwa22: you have to know that many thing are
heppening in the world now

me: i just checked my email again and i received
your email and i think it is spam

me: i scan through it and i receive these
kind of messages every day

nancyuwa22: if you don't belive,how did you want to
prove it that is true

nancyuwa22: not only you i asol receive it
but god know that is the true am tall

me: if what you say is true then you will have to
think on your own of a way to gain my trust or anyone's

me: what are you thinking now?

nancyuwa22: you are ready to help me

me: no

nancyuwa22: is what i want to know

me: because you are a spammer

me: i don't believe you

nancyuwa22: ok

me: you know you should get another job

nancyuwa22: thank you

me: i pray that you would come to know the truth
and be set free in Jesus' name. amen

That was the conversation with a spammer on Yahoo my messenger I had on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 approximately between 5:35 p.m. to 5:41 p.m.

Following is the email I received from nancyuwa22 at my Yahoo inbox:

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:28:19 -0800 (PST)

From: "uwandu nancy" <nancyuwa22@yahoo.com> Add to Address BookYahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more

Subject: i got you emil from [website's name withheld by me]

To: ZAL718@YAHOO.COM
Dearest one,

I am writting this letter with due
respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves
previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile
that speaks good of you. I want to find out if it's possible for you to deal
with individual as to investment . I came across your profile and I feel it's
highly reputable that is why I pick an interest getting across to you in respect
of investment at my disposal. I will be so glad if you can allow me and lead me
to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now.I will make my
proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this
opportunity to introduce myself to you. Well I am Nancy uwandu from
Liberia,the only daughter of Col Mike Uwandu.My father is now late,he died
during the last crisis in my country(Liberia). He was one of the high officers
in the leadership of formal president Charles Taylor who is now in exile after
many innocent soul were killed,My father was unlucky to be among those that was
killed by therebel. The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek
you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help hand over
some huge amount of money in my possession. This money (US2.5 Million dollars)is
deposited in a secuirty and finacier company some years ago by my father he made
me the sole beneficiary I am now asking you to stand on my behalf ,to stand as
my partner and in time of the claim and investment as well. As I have mention
earlier I will make the procedure to this issue to be well know to you,if I am
given the opportunity to do so. Pls attach your direct and full information as
you reply to me. You can also contact me with this email nancy_uwa22@yahoo.com
Thanks and remain bless.

Nancy.

(I still have that email in my inbox)

When I said to nancy whether she got my message of not that was when she tried to add me to her Yahoo! friend's lists but I refused and wrote her a message on the box that appeared when I denied her. I think it went something like this

me: I don't trust you yet, I think you are a spammer.

After the conversation I searched Google for "Col Mike Uwandu Nancy Uwandu" and this is the website

http://muslimdating.org/money-scams.htm

While i was arranging this blog entry nancyuwa22 started chatting with me again, following is the conservation:

nancyuwa22: hello

me: hi

nancyuwa22: so what

me: so what what?

nancyuwa22: were are weme: india

nancyuwa22: i know that northing i will say you
belive b/c you feel that i am in africa

nancyuwa22: but

nancyuwa22: one day you come to belive

me: no not because you are in africa but because
there are so many spammer using african nations as their countries to create
feelings of pity, compassion etc. besides i just searched Google and I found
this website that might interest you: http://muslimdating.org/money-scams.htm your email is listed herenancyuwa22: but did you see nancy
or my father name there.

nancyuwa22: i have been earing of this but i have
not see the web site like this

nancyuwa22: you can still go on and look for
more

me: your name is there and also your email
address

nancyuwa22: you can not find it me: yes i can don't
lie

nancyuwa22: no you canme: your message is the third
from the top, check itme: did you check?

nancyuwa22: you think i am a kind is you that put
it there

me: i did not put it there the people who own that
website put it there

nancyuwa22: i but you know i did not that nancy_uwa2000@yahoo.com
that is not my email

nancyuwa22: pls i want to go back to campme: yes
that is not your email but that is the same email message

nancyuwa22: don't know how about that

me: same name, same message, same type of spam message i get every day = spam

nancyuwa22: ok

nancyuwa22: am liveing now to comp

nancyuwa22: my time is up

me: bye, i hope you find freedom from all
this

nancyuwa22: is you not meme: yes

nancyuwa22: bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me: bye maybe i'll meet you again one
day

The last message received was on 11/15/05 at 6:25 and closed the window.

I had to admit there were time in the whole conversation when I thought that I was the bad guy. You know especially, when the email address turned out to be different, and I got scared. (It was actually

nancyuwa22@yahoo.com not nancy_uwa2000@yahoo.com in that other website) The definitions for spammer and spam is found at www.thefreedictionary.com i.e. at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spammer and http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spam

My prayer for spammers:

Father, that was the strangest conversation I've had in a long time. I pray
for that person and other people who spam, please help them. I realised somehow that they are real people. Touch there lives. Change their lives. I know You
can. In Jesus' name.

Help me not forget that if it were not for the blood of Jesus, I too would be
guilty of much more graver sins than spam.

In Jesus' name I pray, amen.