Six million bucks!

[geronimo_appleby]

oh rly?

i received this email today...:

Good day My Dearest Beloved One.

I am Mrs. Ruth Par, from republic of Ireland, born in the state of Ohio USA. I am legally married to Mr. Goodman Khanyile a South Africa citizen born brought up in Switzerland, I live in Switzerland with my husband for 32 years before we move down to South Africa in 1985 after my husband retirement in 1974, I am 76 years old by the grace of God, I am a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast.

All indication from my doctor that my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I wouldn’t live more than two months, according to my doctors and in all indication regards to medical analysis.

This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very bad stage that no hope for me to be a living person again. My dear husband was involved with the January 2000 Kenya airways plane crashed as you can see on the news line web site. Http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/***85.stm ) 40 years period of marriage life, still we could not produce any child, my late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited some part of his business and money in the bank.

The doctors has advised me that I may not live for more than one months and 2 weeks and warn me to stop thinking over who is going to inherit my money, today I have decided to donate contribute to the less privileges, charity and orphanage homes.

I made this decision after listing to the news line about 100 years old woman who secretly donate her fortune upon her death.

http://ww**7\http://www.youtube.com/watch?**o8o-e-ilsum I choose you after viewing your profile and I have confident in you because I have prayed. I am willing to donate the sum of $20.5million U.S Dollars, to the less privileged.

YOU WILL ALSO GET 30% OF THE MONEY WHICH WILL BE; SIX MILLION AND ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,100,000) AS YOUR COMPENSATION FOR HELPING ME FULFILL THIS DESIRE OF DONATION.

Please I want you to note that this fund is still in the bank where my husband deposited it. I am going to advice my lawyer to change my last will to your name and file in an application for the transfer of the money in your name.

lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used for the said purpose even though I am late then or alive, because I have come to find out that wealth acquisition without God is vanity according to the wisest king in Israeli Solomon, and I made the promise to God that the fund will be use to help the needy and the less privilege.

May the grace of our lord the love of God and the fellowship of God be with you and your family, please further discussion contact me with my

Email Address: ruth.epar@webmail.co.**


I await urgent reply.


Remain blessed

Mrs. Ruth Par

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

Six million bucks!

If I had a dollar for every six million dollars those old ladies told me they were sending I'd maybe have my dollar.

 

[lovecraft68]

Holy shit, I got a similar e-mail two weeks ago, we might be family!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Holy shit, I got a similar e-mail two weeks ago, we might be family!

you forwarded it to me, didn't you?

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Now THAT is fiction. Take notes, people.

(My opinion of people who start throwing around "new Christian convert" in scams can be imagined. I also note that for someone raised in the US and thence Ireland, her grammar is suspiciously Creole, or maybe some other African-derivative. If you're going to scam foreigners, hire someone completely fluent in their language...)

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Now THAT is fiction. Take notes, people.

(My opinion of people who start throwing around "new Christian convert" in scams can be imagined. I also note that for someone raised in the US and thence Ireland, her grammar is suspiciously Creole, or maybe some other African-derivative. If you're going to scam foreigners, hire someone completely fluent in their language...)

it's pilot's LIFE, man.

 

[Learin]

I'm very sceptical of these holier than thou Christian grandmas donating money but my friend got a similar email from a total stranger. He replied and a check for £165,000 was in his mail by the next month.

Why don't I get such emails?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, I get at least 3 of those a day. They go right in the spam folder and then deleted.

 

[Handley_Page]

Surely the trick is to open a new Bank Account specially for the purpose ?

Ah, well. Perhaps not. . .

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I'm very sceptical of these holier than thou Christian grandmas donating money but my friend got a similar email from a total stranger. He replied and a check for £165,000 was in his mail by the next month.

Why don't I get such emails?

In fairness, there's plenty of people giving charity out there, and lots of them are "Christian grandmas". That's why these scams work at all - there really are people near the end of their lives who do contribute to worthy causes. But the handful I've known have had no problem identifying churches and legitimate causes to take the donations - trust me, if you want to give your fortune to the Red Cross at death, operators are standing by to help you do the paperwork. A total stranger? That's the part of all these scams that simply never makes sense (and I don't particularly believe your story; at the very least it's missing relevant details.)

The OP's was especially stupid because after living in the USA, Ireland and Switzerland, no one's too likely to happen to write EXACTLY like a Nigerian or Haitian who's shaky second language is English and who learned a smattering of Christianese from a missionary school.

Though it IS interesting to speculate about a bunch of scammers who, 9 times out of ten, rake in money from their scam, but one time out of ten to arrange for a real if modest payout to the scammee. They'd be investing in creating buzz to make people more willing to believe these scams are the real deal... learnin, what country are you from again?

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Surely the trick is to open a new Bank Account specially for the purpose ?

Don't. Doms, scammers, marketers and espionage agents all know the simple rule - once you get your sub/mark to do ANYTHING on your say so, it becomes increasingly easy to get them to do more and more. Any effort you go to commits you emotionally to that course of action and the people behind it. The way to win is to delete first and ask no questions later.

Online scammers run a VERY low cost operation - email is free and there are $35 dollar computers with wifi capability, and even the 3rd world has public wifi in cities. If they get $20 in "paperwork fees" out of a very few people they come out way ahead, very quickly.

 

[Learin]

In fairness, there's plenty of people giving charity out there, and lots of them are "Christian grandmas". That's why these scams work at all - there really are people near the end of their lives who do contribute to worthy causes. But the handful I've known have had no problem identifying churches and legitimate causes to take the donations - trust me, if you want to give your fortune to the Red Cross at death, operators are standing by to help you do the paperwork. A total stranger? That's the part of all these scams that simply never makes sense (and I don't particularly believe your story; at the very least it's missing relevant details.)

The OP's was especially stupid because after living in the USA, Ireland and Switzerland, no one's too likely to happen to write EXACTLY like a Nigerian or Haitian who's shaky second language is English and who learned a smattering of Christianese from a missionary school.

Though it IS interesting to speculate about a bunch of scammers who, 9 times out of ten, rake in money from their scam, but one time out of ten to arrange for a real if modest payout to the scammee. They'd be investing in creating buzz to make people more willing to believe these scams are the real deal...

Well, my friend was out of job for two months, knee-deep in debt and had borrowed money from his friends, including me. It was a significant amount, and in his condition, I didn't expect him to return my money. But he did.

Maybe he advertised somewhere. Maybe he won a lottery. Maybe he stole. Maybe he just found the money lying somewhere. I don't know. All he told me was that he had corresponded with a retired doctor.

How he got in touch, I've no idea.

This is so far-fetched. Everyone has the right to question its authenticity.

But it happened.

learnin, what country are you from again?

I don't remember mentioning it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Don't. Doms, scammers, marketers and espionage agents all know the simple rule - once you get your sub/mark to do ANYTHING on your say so, it becomes increasingly easy to get them to do more and more. Any effort you go to commits you emotionally to that course of action and the people behind it. The way to win is to delete first and ask no questions later.

Online scammers run a VERY low cost operation - email is free and there are $35 dollar computers with wifi capability, and even the 3rd world has public wifi in cities. If they get $20 in "paperwork fees" out of a very few people they come out way ahead, very quickly.

A very good point. Thanks

 

[oggbashan]

Apparently one of the tricks these scammers use is to deliberately misspell words or use awkward sentence constructions in their emails.

If a person has ignored those, the likelihood that they can be scammed is supposed to be higher.

Vaigra? Anyone?

 

[FantasyXY]

Scam the Scammer

Oh Yeah. The Nigerian Prince scam is alive and well.

Figure out a way to make this scammer meet you in person... Then beat them senseless.

I saw an investigative news piece where they did exactly that... minus the beating, of course. The news people used the promise of more up front cash to secure the millions if they could meet in person.

It turns out that when it comes to money, these scammers are just as gullible as their would be victims. The scammer in this case was extremely lucky it was a news crew scamming the scammer. A vigilante likely would have killed him.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

oh, and, pilot, just in case...

this is you:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/graphics/crybaby.jpg

 

[sr71plt]

Given that you're still whining--and on an irrelevant thread--it seems to be about you rather than me.

I'm pleased I've brought out the silly juvenile in you.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Given that you're still whining--and on an irrelevant thread--it seems to be about you rather than me.

I'm pleased I've brought out the silly juvenile in you.

cock-womble.

 

[lovecraft68]

cock-womble.

That's a new one. Is it a real term or you making shit up again?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

That's a new one. Is it a real term or you making shit up again?

i woulda called the pedantic cunt a spunk-trumpet, but cock-womble fit best.

 

[sr71plt]

Ooo, ahh, ouch.

 

[49greg]

One of the doctors in the hospital my wife works at fell for one of these scams, well almost, he was talking to someone else at work and told them what he was going to do. They stopped him in time.

At the hospital she works at, more than one doctor has fallen for the most easily seen through scams. Apparently they spend their lives concentrating on medicine and nothing else, yet think they know it all.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

One of the doctors in the hospital my wife works at fell for one of these scams, well almost, he was talking to someone else at work and told them what he was going to do. They stopped him in time.

At the hospital she works at, more than one doctor has fallen for the most easily seen through scams. Apparently they spend their lives concentrating on medicine and nothing else, yet think they know it all.

I think I'd prefer to characterize this as "they suffer from unbridled compassion but a lack of wisdom." It sounds a little less anti-intellectual.

People sometimes forget you gotta pair the "innocent as doves" thing with the "wise as serpents" thing.

 

[Handley_Page]

One of the doctors in the hospital my wife works at fell for one of these scams, well almost, he was talking to someone else at work and told them what he was going to do. They stopped him in time.

At the hospital she works at, more than one doctor has fallen for the most easily seen through scams.
Apparently they spend their lives concentrating on medicine and nothing else, yet think they know it all.

You mean - they don't ?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Ooo, ahh, ouch.

you keep coming back, though - spunk-trumpet.

http://jimegli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/cry-baby.png