OK, how do people get your information??

[aneaglesangel]

I got this in my email, and I wonder how scams like this get my address. This is the second time I've got some weird thing in the mail. The first time it was some guy from Africa and he wanted me to let him put a huge amount of money in my bank account for him. LOL! Yeah...as if!! This time I don't have to let anyone put a large check in my account, I just have to send my American money to Russia, yeah...again...as if!!! So let me know, if you know how I keep seeming to be a target for these things, I'd love to know, so I can stop getting them....or maybe a nice computer virus too, while I'm at it!

rom: Elena ([e-mail])
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Sent: Sun 12/06/09 6:34 AM
To: [e-mail] (this is not even my address, is it some weird spammer address that just goes to anyone?)

Hi,

My name is Elena, I have 33 year and I live in a province in Russia. I work in library and I can use computer after my work when possible. I finded your address in internet and I decided to write you this letter.

I have a 8 years daughter Angelina, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother.

Due to financial crisis my mother unexpected lost job and our situation became very difficult.

The prices for gas and electricity is very high in our region and we cannot use it to heat our home anymore.

The winter is coming and weather becoming colder each day. We are very afraid and we don't know what to do.

The only accessible way for us to heat our home is to use a portable oven which work with burning wood. We have many wood in our region and this oven will heat our home all winter for minimal charges.

Unfortunately, we cannot buy this oven in our town because it cost equivalent of 191 Euro and very expensive for us.

If you have any old portable wood burning 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 home.
We are located in central part of Russia, 180km from Moscow.

Please let me know if you can help and I will write you our home address.

From all my heart I wish you a Merry Christmas. I wish that the New 2010 Year will bring you hapiness and all your dreams come true!

Elena and my family.

[nearkeith]

Title: "Edgar Allen Poe's Blustery Birthday Bash!"

Program Content: This is a modest salute noting the 201st anniversary of the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 -- October 7, 1849) who resided in Providence, Rhode Island for periods during 1847 and 1848, while courting the eccentric poetess of Providence, Sarah Helen Whitman.

Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010

Time: 2 p.m.

Banner Text: "Hearken, you hearty horror fans: Don your overcoat, pull on your mittens, step into your galoshes, wrap your scarf around your neck, and venture out to celebrate the legacy of America's preeminent horror and suspense writer of the 19th century: Edgar Allan Poe!"

Suggested Contribution: $10.00 per person.

Location: Roger Williams Memorial Park, Providence, RI, situated between Canal and North Main Streets. Parking is available at this site.

Notes about the performance: Recorded music will be played during the performance. There will be select readings from two short stories by Mr. Poe, and a dramatic recitation of Mr. Poe's signature poem, The Raven.

Procedure {Some additions and revisions are probable}:

1) Program will commence at 2 p.m. with Carl giving a talk of approximately 3 minutes, about Edgar Allan Poe's time spent in Providence, 1847-1848.
2) Immediately following the opening talk, we will offer a toast to the unique literary legacy of Edgar Allen Poe, substituting sparkling apple cider for cognac! Carl: "While the air is chill, the land's grown still, on the ground lies a pall of snow...Let's share a toast to the wayward ghost of Edgar Allan Poe!"
3) Recitations of the two versions of, The Raven: Edgar Allan Poe's, and the other, Sarah Helen Whitman's, will be performed.
4) One of our presenters shall read a selection or the whole of E.A. Poe's, The Telltale Heart or Masque of the Red Death.

{The at-site program should last approximately 30 minutes.}

5) Weather permitting, we may conclude with a stroll to the Sarah Helen Whitman House, where Edgar Allan Poe fist saw Sarah Helen Whitman in 1847. If we include this, about a 10 minutes walk from the performance site, we will pass by Saint John's Episcopal Churchyard, which most probably was H.P. Lovecraft's inspiration for his poem: In a Sequester'd Providence Cemetery, Where Once Poe Walk'd. The group can pause outside the Cemetery for one minute, while one of our presenters recites that piece.