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Thread #147848 Message #3554806
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
31-Aug-13 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: What kind of email scam is this one???
Subject: RE: BS: What kind of email scam is this one???
LOL Joe, I like the fact that you're asked to 'fasten'! The tone of the letter is African, I imagine a Nigerian or Cameroonian, something like that. Aren't they just too daft for words? Who'd believe that a Catholic priest would be able to get his hands on nearly $9 million originally designated for an orphanage building? I'm always amused at the weird and wonderful tales these folk cook up, stories that not even my cats would swallow.
Don, a very elderly friend's email was hacked and I got a similar emergency message that he was stranded in the Far East, the British Embassy and local Police refused to help and would I send thousands of dollars (which he very kindly promised to refund on his return!) The email was headed 'Sad News About X' (my friend's name) and I thought he had died. He's far too old and frail to walk to our village shop, never mind whizzing off to the Far East. Do these people imagine that we don't know our friends' whereabouts? Pathetic, but evil just the same.