Well, it's time to say farewell to all of you losers valued readers, because I have received this remarkable offer "out of the blue," as it were.
From : Contact Plus
Sent : December 27, 2003 1:32:26 PM
To : gnotalex@hotmail.com
Subject : Query from Eastern Europe
Sir or Madam,
Granted, "gnotalex" is somewhat ambiguous. So "To Whom It May Concern" might be more appropriate.
After we had discovered the website of your company, we inspected your offer, which caught our attention, with great interest. We also provided this information to our business partners from regions where we perform our business activities. We were kindly surprised by a great interest and an urgent enquiry for more particular information and sale propagation materiels.
Woo-hoo! Now if I can only figure out what the website of my "company" is offering, I should be rolling in dough shortly.
Any guesses? Any? Tell you what, I'll cut you in for 5% of the profits from Romania.
OK, that and 2.5% of Hungary. That's it, that's my final offer.
Therefore we would kindly ask for all possible info about your offer. In order to improve the quality of the sale and distribution of your offer, could you please send us all the possible material in printed version.
Bummer, man. My printer ran out of magic juice about, uh, 16 months ago. But feel free to print up as much as you want and distribute it wherever.
We decided for this option, because Internet is not rather expanded in Eastern Europe. Knowing our market from long-time experience, we know, that a big percentage of transactions follow after the client had the possibility to see a printed version of the offer. Printer prospects constrain more attention, because they are physically in front of the reader. An offer in an electronical form / email, catalog on CD / usually has lower response, because it is rather impersonal. This feature is given by the former mentality system of people and the weak familiarity with IT technologies.
It just so happens that I've got the latest cutting-edge system sitting in the corner gathering dust. It's a 486 running Windows 95, and it's yours for $4000, OK, $3999.85 US.
Considering the post-comunistic past of these countries / when all western products were matter of embargo / on this market there is a big demand for quality products from western and overseas countries.
Our company is located in Slovakia and engaged in marketing support and distibution of several types of products in Eastern Europe and Rusia for many years.
Whereas our activities are spread all througt eastern Europe and Russia / 13 states/, we would like to ask you for more sets of your poropagation materials, if possible. It would be wery essential, because we could start the propagation of your products in all the countries at once, which would multiple the possible business contracts.
"Poropagation"? "Wery essential"? This isn't one of those "Elmer Fudd" scams, is it?
Postscript:
Unfortunately, it was.
What's down, Doc?
Me, for about $2400 (so far).
They seem really interested in that computer, though.
Th-Th-Th-That's All, Folks!