September 30, 2011
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I am so suspicious methinks I'll ignore this message
From Ms Janet Thomas.....
Madina Accra Ghana.Please Permit me to inform you of my mind, Because I have make up my mind to write to you
this way. however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against
your will in my earnest search for a reliable individual who can assist me to make this
transaction a reality after going through your profile i decided to contact you to help me
out of my problem.With my believe in God that you will never let me down.I am a 22 years old lady now, i was born on the 1of january 1989 to the family of Nado and
my father name is Thomas he is a very wealthy gold and dymond merchant who based in ACCRA
GHANA respectively, and my mothers name is Sheila.and I am there only child.well when i
was a kid i went to a private schools and things were going on well for me and my parents
my mother died on the 21ST october 1995, My father took me so special because i am
motherless. and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have
another woman because he did not want me for any problem.but has fate his my father got
dead last year.but before the death of my father on the 12th june 2010 in a private
hospital here in GHANA,
he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sumof $9.500 000 (Nine
million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in ACCRA GHANA.
meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.He also explained
to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i
should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money
and use it for investment purpose, such as;real estate investment or stock market
investment. Plesae,
i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred into.
2) To serve as the guardian of these fund, since I am 22 yearsold..
3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to
procure me a residential permit in your country.I am inclined to offer you 20% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort
after the successful transferring of these fund to your nominated account overseas. Please
I will be very
happy if this transaction will be concluded with in seven (7) working days from now. I am
expecting to hear from you as soon as possible,
I am expecting to hear from you as soon as possible.May Almighty God bless you as you do care for an orphan like me.
With my best regard,
I particularly like the reference to God. I am so mean and hard heartened I think I shall now ignore this message. What do you think?
Comments (34)
Well, if you believe this one, I have an even better proposition for you and you could just mail the check directly to me!
I got the same two messages this morning. I flagged the first message as spam and I blocked and flagged the second one.
I agree with dingdongdingbat!!! Do people REALLY fall for this stuff?
@dingdongdingbat -
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace -
@MadraysGarden -
Thanks for you comments. Yes, I blocked this sender. Evidently it works at times or it would not continue to be tried don't you think?
I think she's very fickle because I got exactly the saame message this morning....
block!!!!
If you send her money could you send some to us? Our 90 yr old friend had something similar to this but it was a man from Jamaica I believe and over the phone and it was going on and on harassing her. Had to change her phone number.
Surely you never seriously considered this. I have gotten letters similar to this from Africa, India, and a dozen other countries over the years. The one thing I find different in this one is that you don't have to send them money first. Although this letter does not ask for earnest money on your part, she is asking for residental VISA, to get one of those things she must get someone to guarantee her support for one year. No, as sweet as you are...NO! This is just a scam.
NOT!! i think almost everyone has received one of the scam letters ... aargh ... it's distressing to think that they must have had some success scamming or else they wouldn't do this ...
just tell them to "show me the money" ... send a check or cash or money order, no problemo! haha
Who hasn't gotten a letter like that? SO crazy! You are surely right to be suspicious. Like my grandma always said, "If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!"
My aunt fell prey to a letter like this several years ago -- she didn't have much, but they drained her entire fortune and her son was left to pick up the mess! I hope you simply blocked the address, and otherwise ignored it!
Sounds legit to me.
LOL Do you ever watch "Judge Judy?" I've listened to people who 'fell' for this. NO NO NO!!!!!
Another one, I heard about recently, in our little town, was.....the lady got a phone call, supposedly from her grandson. He was in jail, and needed bail money. Of course it was not her grandson, but SHE SENT IT!!!! SO SAD!!!! Bye Bye $$$$$$$$$$
Definately ignore! And block her/him/whoever it really is.
I say that your pond must have been completely phished out!
Its unreal how these same letters overtime find their way back. You'd think by now these idiots would no better and that we are on to their scheme. Or could it be that their still exist people out there that could fall for such a story ?
I would ignore it too. Once I got one from someone who claimed to be from the Central African Republic. where we used to live. I answered it in the trade language, Sango. I threw in a few English words in case he didn't speak Sango, and scolded him because he was only going to give a small % of his wealth to help the poor people in CAR. He wrote back and asked me to please forget he had written me. That was fun.
Yes, methinks you should ignore too! -- It disturbs me when people try to use God's name to get what they want. Go ahead be SUSPICIOUS!
@ata_grandma - I really like your way of handling that. How often would that happen, that they would send something like that to a person with knowledge about the country.??
@mommachatter - I have only received 2 other emails like this and yes I didn't respond.
@windupherskirt -
LOL Or how about giving ME THIER bank account #.
@GrannyHummingbird - @windupherskirt -
LOL Or how about giving ME THIER bank account #.
Even if I knew for sure it was really my grandson I'd still look into it further wouldn't you?
@slmret - @DanishDoll -
Our money has not come to us so easily that I'd let it go this way. Sad deal when someone
falls for it.
@ata_grandma - That's funny! What's the chance you'd speak to him in his language LOL
@SewWorthIt - rather be safe than sorry!
@Lucy_or_Ethel - yeah, that'll blow her over!! good one!!
@Lucy_or_Ethel - For SURE, I'd look into it!!! AND....The grandparent hoax I mentioned was featured on our local news tonight warning senior citizens about the scam. I can't imagine anyone falling it, without checking, as you said. They said there's even times, someone else gets on the phone too, pretending to be a policeman, saying they need the money for the grandchild's fine.
I already blocked her
Ignore for sure! Scam is written all over it.
Spam message.
@RestlessButterfly - Thanks for the comment. This is only the 2nd message like this I've received. One was through email and this through Xanga message.
I think that is a mighty good idea.
yes i got a message like yours..I spammed mine!
mal_p got the same message. She has it on her blog today. Don't ever fall for all these words. Just slam dunk it into spam.
@ZSA_MD - Thanks for the advice, yes I blocked her.
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