From St. Louis with Love

From: MR.YURI YEGOR 
Mailed-By: charter.net
Reply-To: yyegor@katamail.com
Date: Nov 8, 2006 2:42 AM
Subject: RE-PROFILE

Almost instantly, the email headers ought to give away that the person sending the e-mail isn't the person receiving the e-mail. While this can be used legitimately, there seems to be something of an identity crisis with our Russian executive. He must be Russian, because his name is Yuri. Mr. Yuri Yegor's mail seems to appear to come from mooremco@charter.net, but the replies go to yyegor@katamail.com. Charter.net appears to be an ISP based in St. Louis, Missouri, while Katamail is in Rome, Italy.

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Hello,
I am yuri yegor, I represent a top company executive in Russia. I have a very sensitive and 
private brief from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile funds over 50 Million 
euros.

A very sensitive and private brief from a Russian Company Executive would not be e-mailed en masse to total strangers. Also, since when does Russia use Euros? America's a big country. Seeing how Mr. Yegor knows enough to get an ISP in St. Louis, he must know someone trustworthy in the United States, because I'll state this loud and clear: If a complete stranger wires me 50 million Euros, I'm keeping that cash.

I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via a bank in Western Europe, and 
this is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid 8% for your "management fees", if I am able to 
reach terms with you.

Oh, I see. It's from a Western European bank. This is in opposition to Eastern European Banks, which, apparently, even a person claiming to be an East European (Russian) does not trust. Anytime anyone says that "this is a legitimate transaction", it is anything but -- just reference any movie about "legitimate" businessmen, who are quite often criminals or thieves. Let's see -- 8 percent of 50 million Euros comes out quite easily for 4 million Euros. However, that's conditional on coming to reach terms with the sender. I think what he wants to say, but can't quite put it in writing is "I promise you money, but instead I take your money". That's really what his terms are. Why is management fees in quotes? Doesn't that strike you as odd?

If you are interested, please write me back and provide me with your telephone number, and 
email address and I will provide further details. Please keep this close to your chest as much as 
possible; we can not afford any political problems. This is very vital to the company executive.



Write me back. I look forward to it.



Regards,

Mr. yegor.

I most certainly am not interested, but I've reported your e-mail abuse to your ISP. You'll have more than just imaginary political problems to worry about. Aside from his strange use of capitalization of his name (all uppercase and all lowercase), he doesn't seem to have any spelling errors.

Euros needed to be moved: 50 million.
Euros promised: 4 million.