Ava
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Tue Apr-15-08 09:46 AM
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Jenny Maria Herman wants to give me $2,500,000 |
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Hello Dear am a dying woman, My name is Jenny Maria Herman. I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to you /organisation. I am 69 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago immediately after the death of my husband who has left everything he worked for me, and because the doctors told me I will not live longer than some weeks because of my health. I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $2,500 000 two million five hundred thousand dollars to you for the good work of my Hand and as my spirit leads me to do so, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.I wish you all the best and may the good things bless you abundantly and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.Contact my lawyer/Abogado Sr Barrister; Hector P. Kelly. with this Email address:( advocateoffice@ozu.es) tell him that I have WILLED $2,500 000.00 to you and I have also notified him. I know I don't know you but I have been directed to do this.Thanks and blessing.From Jenny Maria Herman. 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.
Is anyone actually dumb enough to fall for this crap?
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Tue Apr-15-08 09:55 AM
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1. Yes, unfortunately there are people dumb enough to fall for it. |
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But send back this letter.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you very much for writing to me. I am Conchita and I am so poor that I have no last name, as my father could not afford one for me. We live on a small island in the South Pacific and are the only family that has lived here for the past one hundred years.
Unfortunately, we have eaten almost everything on the island except for the dirt and two skinny dogs that are too old to scratch fleas. Fortunately, we ate all the fleas so there are none left for the dogs to worry about.
I am so pleased that you have offered to send us all that money. We have not seen money for the last three generations as we have no place to spend it and no means of getting to a place where we could spend it if we wanted to. I can assure you that we will take excellent care of your funds and invest them wisely. Our plan for the money is as follows:
1. We want to build a deep-water port in Williwilli, our little lagoon here on the island.
2. We then want to bring in a barge with an electrical generator so that we can have electricity on the island once again. We haven't had electricity in over two hundred years because the last generator broke down and we have no parts to repair it.
3. We want to build a school here so the children can learn to read and write. It is really hard to create email messages with no electricity and no knowledge of reading or writing skills.
4. We then want to install a phone company so we can communicate with the outside world and meet more wonderful people like you and your blessed family.
5. We then want to build a satellite cable system so we can watch television and see all the latest fights in the world. We don't have those here and miss them very much. We think that we could probably hook up a computer to the cable or telephone lines so we could send email messages to our newfound friends when we get them.
6. We want to build a grocery store so we have a place to buy things like bubble gum and candy, something we have never had here.
7. We will then need to build a road from our cave to the grocery store so we can get there. Of course, we will need a car to drive on the road or there will be no point in having a road, will there?
8. If we get a car we will need gas and oil but maybe we could just take some from the electrical generator and save that money for a beauty salon, something we really need here. Have you seen the women around here? They are just awful looking.
9. Of course, we will have to build a church so we have a place to go and be thankful for the gifts you have offered us.
Once all these things have been completed, if there is any money left we would like to use it to build a house to live in. The hole we use for an outhouse is rapidly filling up since we began receiving your letters of appeal and we will need to move soon as the cave will be unbearable to live in during hot weather. Air conditioning in our new house would be nice too.
It is too bad that I am only eight years old. If I were older I could come and visit you if you sent me an airplane ticket and an airplane with pontoons on it so it could land in the lagoon. One of my grandchildren would like to come and visit you also, if you don't mind.
I shall patiently await the arrival of the next bottle with your message telling us when the money will be here. Thank you again, for your kind generosity; it is sincerely appreciated.
Conchita
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Tue Apr-15-08 10:17 AM
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Have you ever read any of Ted Nancy's "Letters from a Nut". Yours was just as funny as any of his.
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:14 PM
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4. I can't take credit for it. |
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Someone posted on www.419eater.com. I usually send it whenever I get one of those scam letters. And to let you know how stupid those scammers are, I have even received replies from them wanting to help me out.
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Tue Apr-15-08 11:44 AM
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3. Send her your personal and contact information |
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in order to begin the modalities of the transfer.
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Tue Apr-15-08 04:41 PM
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5. Not only are there people that dumb, it's easy to get a count of them |
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Just go to any search engine and type in, "How many people voted for Bush in 2004?"
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Tue Apr-15-08 07:07 PM
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