User:Andre Castro/2/spam

I began identifying and describing the characters I find in the spam messages from the database.

several reasons sparked my interest for the characters found in spam:

• one character reappears across emails
• often, if portrayed as a rich character happens to be a real person

• the rich (real) character (often):
  • is known publicly
  • is rich
  • got killed
  • is referred to in mass-media, specially due to its controversial death
  • left money behind, who the narrator-sender is in possession but needs the email recipient's help to get hold of it
  • is related to other characters (either mentioned or not mentioned on the emails)

What characters do we find?

in spanish prison/fraud emails

• sender
  • simple kind a guy. Working on a bank or insurance company who proposes a business with you, for the profit of both. It is somehow a corrupt character, but not utterly corrupt. Only wants a bit more than he has, a better living. He is not greedy, or at least is greedy as any of us is. Often he is Africa.

• the rich man - the source of the money
  • often a rich man, with businesses going on, often in an African country, but he is a foreigner.