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PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED
Thursday, July 7, 2011 6:41 AM
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“Sonia Ramirez”
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Hello,

How is Business today?

My name is Sonia Ramirez. I am an handicap and i reside in U.K.
The reason i am contacting you is that my Son is having his birthday soon in your Location,United States on the 19th of August 2011 and I will like you to take care of the Photographs.

I came across your advert on the Internet and am impressed with your services.
All expenses would be taken care of,Please I want the best service from you, because this is my only son so i want the best for him. So your best effort is needed at this occasion.

Pls Let me know your price to work for 3 Hours on that day,12 noon to 3 pm in the afternoon.We want about 25 copies of different photos in coloured form.We want you to work for at least 3 Hours at the occasion.

Also,we will have the photographs snapped at the Birthday forwarded to the Publisher of a Magazine Company in United Kingdom so they could feature it in their celebrity journal.

I look forward to your response

Best Regards
Sonia Ramirez

Are you kidding me?  Really?  Do you think I’m gonna fall for this?

My mistake…Don’t answer back to any spammers.  As I engaged in chat with Mack Carthy, I realized I confirmed my email as a working email and I am a photographer.  With confirmation, the boys from Brazil…no Nigeria, no Russia, no…uh…Senegal…no immigrant Africans in Essex…uh…Houston…?…now can spread my email around like a bottle of booze in a cheap Thai bar.

It could be my nephew (in law?) Issei (pronouned Ee say) who is about 10 and has a Japanese cell phone that is about as powerful as my MacBook Pro.  The camera quality on that phone was better than my Panasonic point and shoot and even had a type of flash.  It could be my 10-year-old Japanese nephew and his buddies running Japanese text into some Engrish translator and Binging photographers off Photoserve and sending scams out to us fools around the world.  All on some plasticy kids phone, just like the one Issei has in the above picture.  Plasticy…now thats a word…or is it?

The point is…DON’T RESPOND.  No matter how angry you might feel.

You are just confirming you are a real live @.  You’ll have your email past along to all the kids at the internet cafe, street corner, bar, or, well you get the point.

Again, if its too good to be true, and if the English is written poorly, then it must be.

But don’t blame me when Conde Nast Italia emails asking for something and you blow them off…just realize many foreign editors may not grasp perfect writing in English skills and will probably write you from their business emails…not gmail or yahoo.

Oi!!!  Issei, nani shiterundayo?