Another low water mark

Today when checking my email I did have some time to clean-out my spam-box. I do like to see what spam I get sometime, and today was the usual assortments of winnings (oh i wish i could get this 1.5 M USD that I won and the 1 million GBP that I have waiting for me at the UK bank). But I understand scams and I do understand that some people fails for it and that they don’t need tat many people that falls for it to make it worth while. And its sad but that’s humans for you.

But today I got the following mail:

Organization:  	World Vision UK
World Vision House
Opal Drive
Milton Keynes
MK15 0ZR
United Kingdom.

Attn Sir/Ma,

On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Join recovery efforts
mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims, with World Vision teams
in the midst of a full-scale response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti;
information from the disaster zone develops very quickly.
In light to support Disaster Relief in Haiti World Vision have personally
witnessed the tremendous generosity and goodwill of the American people
and of our friends around the world to help in times of great need, World
Vision is on the ground rushing emergency supplies to survivors of this
catastrophe. The damage to buildings is extensive and the number of injured
or dead is estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
Prior to this present engagements World Vision Team needs payment representative
to work on part-time, we will need you as payment representative to receive
payments in your location where we do not have agent presently from Corporate,
Individual willing to donate to help the relief effort today.

Job Description is as follows (Read Carefully)

1. Payment will be sent to you on our behalf from any of our donor this would
   come in the form of Cashiers Checks, Bank wire transfer
2. All Payments must be Cashed/Deposited or confirm receipt of funds incase of
   wire transfer at your Bank.
3. Deduction of Commission Fee of 10% Payment received as your remuneration for
   working with "World Vision Team" to encourage your participation.
4. Further directives shall be enunciated to you in very general term on how to
   Convey the donated funds to achieve our basic objective of the team.

Note:  There is no application fee for this vacancy to be our representative
       it will all go down to your benevolence to support the circumstance in
       Haiti, but also you have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with our
       staff members and other world vision supporters. 

If you are interested to be an agent; kindly provide your contact details as
specified underneath;

Full Name:
Mailing Address (not P.O BOX):
City:
State:
Country:
Zip Code:
Telephone Number:
Cell Number
Fax Number:
Email Address:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:

God Bless you as we look forward to establish a cordial relationship with you.

Yours Truly,

For: WORLD VISION ORGANIZATION	

Dr. Neil Ashford

(Human Resources Manager)
Reply to: worldvisionteam@excite.co.uk

So this is no so wrong in a number of ways.

  1. Using a human disaster to make people beliving that they might help and still earn money on it. Peoples gread is usually enough to get some to fall for spam and this is now double so.
  2. They are also using a organisation that has had very bad reputations for other spam problems so its very bad.

I do feel very said for the world when I see this.

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