Scammers will try anything to trick you into giving up your hard earned cash. Their bag of tricks even includes tugging on your heartstrings with tearful tales of woe. The latest example is an email sent with the subject line "With Love from Me to You", which claims to be from a 55-year-old woman dying of cancer. She just happens to have 6.5 million dollars she wants to give away to a complete stranger - all in God's name, of course.
It's a classic example of Advance Fee Fraud, aka a Nigerian 419 scam. If you do fall for the scam, the only money exchanging hands will be you handing your money over to the scam artist in the form of fees, processing payments, and other bogus charges. The scam email reads as follows:
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My Dear in the Lord,
My name is Mrs Elizabeth Rogers, I am a dying woman who has decided to
donate what I have to you/church.
I am 55 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer of the lung for about
4years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me
everything he worked for 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 USD$6,500,000.00 (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) to you
for the good work of humanity, 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 Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds
well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer Barrister Roy Martin with this specified email:
( roymartinchambers1@gmail.com ) and tell him that I have WILLED
(USD$6,500,000.00) to you and I have also notified him.
I know I don't know you but God has directed me to do this.
Thanks and God bless.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers
These always leave me feeling ever so slightly amused. One thing I do know is that if somebody did leave me that much money I wouldn’t be using it for what they intended!
this scam is old hat now. the newest of the scams, as i have received was letters from f.b.i using threatening means. and they also make consecutive attempts at larger threats to send them money. the very most recent scam was a letter from obama the president telling me i was recognized as a terrorist and to get in touch with them and other things in email. they went as far as posting pic of our president on the bottom of email. it was so disturbing to me that they are trying to use our own government to execute their plans. truth is, anytime anyone receives large sums of money, or is wanted for any specific reason, registered mail directly to your address is the legal routine. and you never have to lose a penny out of your pocket.
What you do in this case is photoshop yourself a Western Union or Moneygram or w/e then send it to them, hilarity ensues
(They either get canned on the spot, or they get ridiculed and sent home – and you hear about it later, lol. I did this three times in a row to this one guy before I never heard from him again. Just takes a little social engineering.
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