On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:19 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> "If you have any old portable oven and in case you don't use it anymore,
> we will be very grateful to you if you can donate it to us and organize
> transport of this oven to our address (200km from Moscow). This ovens
> are different, usually they made from cast iron."
>
> Dozens of these for months already...
>
> What's the business model of this scam? I can't believe they really want
> millions of iron cast ovens from all around the world. Maybe I should
> answer and ask directly ;D
Long time since I've last seen one of these...
My impression was, they want money of course. The victim falling for it
sure is much more likely to help the poor people by sending over some
money -- rather than "organizing transport" of an oven. The shipping [1]
costs would exceed the amount of money they'd send anyway.
IIRC some variants even outright mentioned the alternative of money.
[1] Ever sent a crate of beer from Germany to the USA?
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