Spam auf Deutsch

[ndrosen]

Lately, some spam has been getting through to my work email (I’ve been reporting it, which I hope will lead to improved exclusion of junk emails). One particular email caught my interest because it began “Lieber Herr,” and continued with a spiel in German, so I practiced my rusty German trying to understand it. As it turned out, the German version was followed by more or less the same thing in English. Supposedly, there’s a super-rich investor with billions to invest, and if I can find a few good corporations for him invest in, he will pay me a small percentage of his total investment as a commission.

I wonder whether the email was designed to fleece Germans, or whether the German text was meant to give dupes the idea that there actually was a European billionaire involved. Jedenfalls habe ich etwa Deutschubung bekommen!