Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Hi Nirosha Silva,
Don’t feel so bad about your brain-dead husband--you really don't know what he was up to. Well, let me summarize. Your husband was an illegal winemaker (a Tari maker), and he bootlegged to unsuspecting people. Incidentally, the "drunk lorry driver" who hit your car was high on booze your husband had supplied. See, how it all comes back to you!
God bless AOL for paying you 5 cents for each email forward. How much have you collected so far? Hope enough to advertise in ‘Personals’ and find yourself a decent man.
Regards,
Cemendtaur

PS. Nirosha, You mention two children in your email message, but the picture shows three. Is the third kid neighbor's?

PSS. For other readers i.e., besides widow Nirosha Silva, Ms. Silva's hoax email message has interesting elements of "lorry driver", "lakhs" (without the mention of currency), and "AOL." Is it the work of a new UK immigrant who came from Goa?
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The above was in response to the following email message that came with the pictures of the aggrieved family.


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Dear Reader,

I am writing this on behalf of my loving husband.
Everything was fine, me, my husband and our two children. We had a happy
family. My husband was an Engineer in a big company. He comes home early and
helps me with the house chores and plays with the childrenââ'¬Â¦ Our dreams
were shattered in front of our eyes last week. It was a drunk lorry driver,
who came on the wrong side and hit us and went. It killed my little baby
girl and left my husband paralyzed. My husband is still in the hospital. His
brain is damaged and he needs an operation. I need 5 lakhs to save his life
I have collected about 3 lahks from my friends and family. I need another 2
lakhs.I don't want to lose him. He is such a wonderful husband & father

He still doesn't know we lost our little girl. I am looking after my son
now. Without my husband I won't be able to take care of him. Please help me
save my husband the one person I dearly love. I have already lost my
daughter and I don't want to lose my husband as well. Please help us.
Thank you very much for your love & support.
May God bless you.

Yours Truly,
Nirosha Silva
(I know you don't like to forward mails. I am really sorry to bother you.
If you have a heart and like to help a family, please forward this mail.
Every time you forward this it will add 5 cents per email ID to AOL and they
will deposit it into my bank account. This will help me save my
husband.)

11 comments:

Rain said...

I used to forward emails like these, one day I decided to google it first. Wow, why do people start such spams?? Whose pictures do they use?

Anonymous said...

looking at the 1st photo.. looks like it was taken in US..or outside india..(carpet and the door lock..) but mentioning of lakhs and lorry driver means it happened in india.. i wish people put 2 seconds before they forward...

Anonymous said...

I ALWAYS USED RO FORWARD ALL THE SUCH MAILS TO MY FREIND IN GREIF TO HELP SOMEBODY. BUT THIS TIME I JUST WENT TO GOOGLE AND TYPED THE SENDERS NAME . ALL FAKE , WHY DO PEOPLE SEND SUCH MAILS TO OTHER DOP THEY EARN SOMETHING? ALL NONSENSE

Anonymous said...

I ALWAYS USED RO FORWARD ALL THE SUCH MAILS TO MY FREIND IN GREIF TO HELP SOMEBODY. BUT THIS TIME I JUST WENT TO GOOGLE AND TYPED THE SENDERS NAME . ALL FAKE , WHY DO PEOPLE SEND SUCH MAILS TO OTHER DOP THEY EARN SOMETHING? ALL NONSENSE

Anonymous said...

I ALWAYS USED RO FORWARD ALL THE SUCH MAILS TO MY FREIND IN GREIF TO HELP SOMEBODY. BUT THIS TIME I JUST WENT TO GOOGLE AND TYPED THE SENDERS NAME . ALL FAKE , WHY DO PEOPLE SEND SUCH MAILS TO OTHER DOP THEY EARN SOMETHING? ALL NONSENSE

Anonymous said...

Hi, This is spam ,stop forwarding these mails......search it u 'll know the truth......

Zazou said...

do people really earn money from that?? if that's so... everyone can start business... pfff... that's really a loss of time... I also used to forward such mails... until I googled "Nirosha Silva". if Mrs Silva is living in teh US or UK, does she not have a mdical insurance?? Mr Silva is an engineer!! He should be having a quite good status!! why do they waste people's time with such stupid thing!!

Anonymous said...

It could also be that AOL is trying to do a viral marketing exercise.

Unknown said...

Hi, Nirosha Silva don't worry.We all are with you.After all we are human beings.

activist said...

Cemendtaur, the name sound more Srilankan than Goan.

activist said...

Cemendtaur...the name sound more Srilankan than Goan and is in all probabilities a fake.