Increasing Weirdity
Posted: Thu 16 March, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Weirdness 8 Comments »Sometimes I get spam mails that are just too weird for words. In this case I can’t even see what the catch is – I must be missing something…
Dear Sir/Madam
My name is Mrs. Jenny Brooks, I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you/ church. I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for.I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less than one hour.
I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $2,500,000 (two million five hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.
At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is aware I have changed my will you and he will arrange the transfer of the funds from my account to you.
I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others. Contact my lawyer (Barrister Parker Brown) with this specified email: [dodgy@email.com] and tell him that I have WILLED ($2,500,000.00) to you and I have also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and good work. I know I don?t know you but I have been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.
NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don’t want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.
Regards,
Jenny Brooks (Mrs)
Now, isn’t that just amazingly bizarre?
I’ve got those coming out of my bloody ears!
Heh! Nice. Reply and claim the money. I’m sure I’ve still got the bizarre spam message asking me to assist with the creation of a time machine from a couple of years ago.
Cause what they want you to do is reply to the email, get into a lengthy too and fro of correspondence where you end up trusting them and then give ’em your bank details.
Great! Lend us a fiver.
You should try spammer baiting – you can find examples on the net. The idea is to get into long and drawn out email conversations with no intention of giving them what them want and totally wind them up.
http://www.simong.org/Favourite/forum.php?forum=scammers is worth a read
419 eating anyone?
I’m going to get that time machine email in 3 years and six months time. Weird!
I received the same one a few hours ago, and if you google ‘Barrister Parker Brown’, as i did, you’ll find there are more people who received this! So just ignore any further e-mails from this person!