It hit my mailbox today – the decision to put the entire letter in a jpg file probably got it past gmail’s spam filters… but sheez, this is absolutely terrible… terribly perfect as a rip-off that is…
Get this:
1) Firstly the spelling and grammar is actually almost acceptably good !
2) It puts a whole new spin on the usual “God bless you for your help” and other religious crud in the “help me collect my dead husbands fortunes” 419s by pretending to be from a Christian in Saudi who had converted (along with the dead hubby) from Islam
3) It then goes on to state that the purpose of the money for her is to use it for charity ! To build things like cancer research centers !
4) The “I have cancer” bit is a nice (if rather fucked up) twist…
Sheez… I can just see a million fundamentalists falling for this one… Here is the letter as I receive it.
Please if you get this – IT IS NOT REAL. These scammers have in the past committed fraud, theft, kidnapping and even more violent crimes than that against people who respond. Do not fall for it.
Oh, and whichever scammer came up with this one… you know, “Sister Mary Jones” is really not a very believable name for a lady who was born to a Muslim family in Saudi Arabia !
419 Scam