Hello,
Beware of a new scam that seems to be just starting, its just like those Nigerian (and other countries) Bank scams
http://www.secretservice.gov/financial_crimes.shtml

except now they are targeting animal lovers claiming they are from some shelter system in a former Russian country.

The name the person gives is Bolotina Valeria but check the details of the email if you get this and you see the name attached to the email address is Gordon Gadi, and the email service, inodes.org. is based in Australia , BUT the IP is routed from Argentina and possibly Mexico too.

Received: from 190.48.122.163 (190-48-122-163.speedy.com.ar [190.48.122.163]) by rly-xm02.mx.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXM22-5f244060723b; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:42:31 -0500

They must be very new because this is just a simple check anyone can do, eventually they will probably cover their tracks better. If they really were from a shelter system just send the email from the shelter or at least from the region of the world they claim to come from and how about not routing your scam address through a third country. So just warning don't fall for this stuff they target caring people on purpose who they hope will become rightfully angry over poor conditions for animals and not even stop to think they are going to be ripped off or worse in some way in some way. Even if they don't tell you to come to another country they could empty your bank account and you can't do anything about it because to help them with this in the first place is considered illegal. You may get a sorry this happened from the government but you will never see your money again.


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Dear !

Our noncommercial enterprise has been engaging in
organization and maintenance of shelters for stray
dogs and cats for more than 12 years in one of the
countries of the former Soviet Union. For the time
weve constructed 18 shelters which maintenance, as
you see, costs much. The more so we constantly
increase the quantity of such shelters in different
cities. And we have a lot of sponsors among
businessmen and ordinary people who render us
feasible material support.

But the legislation of our country does not attribute
our work to charitable kinds of activity. Therefore
any our sponsor wishing to transfer the money to our
account is exposed to the barbarous taxation which
size makes up 48 % of the transferred sum. And it
doesnt include taxes to which our enterprise
undergoes when using these funds. It is quite clear
that suffering animals reach a mere trifle of these
donations. And it besides that our cities are full
of the sick and hungry animals eating garbage on
cesspits that our legislators do not care a fig.

Therefore we have come to a decision to engage people
who could fulfill not complicated work of short
duration as our financial agents. Our sponsors could
transfer means for us to your bank account and you,
in your turn, could send the means to our agents
addresses to Russia. The mediation doesnt require any
investments on your part. Moreover we are ready to
pay to you for this work not less than 8 % of the sum
sent by you and, naturally, to cover all your expenses
bound up with sending the money to our address.

Our requirements are simple: you should be over 20 year
of age and you should love animals very much. Thus we
can avoid the barbarous taxation of our country and
above all help poor animals. If you are ready to work
together with us and have some spare time fill in the
resume stated below. If you satisfy our conditions we
send you our employment agreement with gratitude and
explain all circumstances of your future work with us
in details.

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Your company name:
First name:
Last name:
Country:
State:
City:
Land phone:
Cell phone:
E-mail:
Hours available for telephone interviews:

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Best wishes,

Bolotina Valeria,
Noncommercial Enterprise "Freshet"
mailto:freshet@list.ru

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Thank you! I just HATE it when people prey on other people's weaknesses and compassion for material profit.

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i always receive loads of those ones claiming to be from a nigerian bank offering me 1 million of someones lost fortunes. I would never fall for it I don;t think, but there surely must be people that do, its seriously wrong all the things that go on, on this wonderful thing we call the net. I love it and hate it all the same!

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Yeah thats why this one worried me, people know to avoid those bank scams but this one might just con some sweet person into something stupid because they love animals and worry about them. I do a lot for animal causes and especially during Katrina rescues did massive mailings to get help and donations and I think thats why this was sent to me they are targeting animal lovers. They just may uncover some sweet unknowing person who never got one of those bank scam letters and then they get this and feel bad for shelter animals.

This also makes it harder for any real shelter to get help when people become suspicious that they are all scams. They are not so thats why I had to post this asap and with any request for animal related donations it should always be very simple, you should be able to talk to the people who need the funds and they should be reachable where they say they are based and should have a website with their work and info. If a real Russian shelter needed help they'd get it. Plus with the internet I know people all over the world someone would be able to go to the location to verify all of it.

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