Today’s SPAM[tm] Email

…comes from Mrs. Jennifer Edwards, to wit:

Apostolic Greetings !!!,

God will grant you the willingness and interest to digest this humble narrations though it might be so surprise and strange to believe my story but i knew by the reason of the almighty you will humbly understood and accept to proceed with my proposal though we have not met or seen each other before.

My name is Mrs. Jennifer Edward a widow to Mr.Edward G. Robinson who was a competent business man here in Abidjan Cote d’ivoire , we were married for many yrs without any child till his death in October 2005 after a brief illness. Due to the promise which i revered to him on the alter at the day of our church wedding i decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which is against the holy bible.

My happiness is that my late husband lived a life of a true & worthy Christian and he has this plan before his death which he pleaded with me to appropriate it to accomplishment. He took this decision with me to use this fund in building an orphanage in his name that will accommodate thousand’s of children, and also to use part of this fund in helping the less fortunate and to spread the gospel of the lord to the remote places of the world.

He made this deposit of $(3.9Million)USD Three Million nine hundred thousand U.S. Dollars in a Finance Security Company here in Abidjan . Recently, my Doctor told me that i would not last for the next 5 months due to cancer & stroke illness.

Having known my condition i decided to seek for a competent and reliable God fearing person or church to entrust this fund to utilize this fund the way i narrated above as my late husband desired.

The Bible made us to understand that “Blessed is the hand that giveth”. I took this decision because i don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my late husband’s relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my late husband’s efforts to be used by unbelievers.

I don’t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence i know where i am going. I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband’s relatives are around me always. i don’t want them to know about this development.

As soon as i receive your reply i shall give you the relevant documents that will legalize you to have access over this fund. I will also issue you an affidavit that will proove you the present beneficiary of this fund in the Finance Security Company. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd.

My happiness is that i and my late husband lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth.

Please always be prayerful all through your life and pray to God to forgive me my sins. Contact me on my private email bellow, any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for another church or a God fearing person for this same purpose.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as i stated herein. Hoping to receive your reply.

Your’s Sister In Christ,
Mrs Jennifer Edward

I thought that Edward G. Robinson died in 1973 after having made that immortal movie, Soylent Green. I guess that he survived to live to that great age of 111 and died in the Ivory Coast. AND, he was a competent business man? Who knew?

8 Responses to “Today’s SPAM[tm] Email”

  1. smlee4 says:

    i was amused by how well, the writer of the email managed to structure each line with care and, so well-scripted.

  2. chrishansenhome says:

    That’s why people fall for these scam emails…they are often very plausible-sounding.

    I don’t usually read them, but the mention of Edward G. Robinson made me sit up and take notice.

  3. smlee4 says:

    oh.. i received such emails as well, and very frequently on yahoo. I simply marked them as spam and deleted them.

  4. chrishansenhome says:

    I use MailWasher to mark and delete spam before it reaches my computer, and when I’m marking some uncertain emails as spam, the text shows up in the window below. That’s why I saw it. Normally it would be deleted before it got to my computer.

  5. smlee4 says:

    you are not using web-based emails?

  6. chrishansenhome says:

    No, I use Eudora to download and store emails. I have all my emails stored from about 1996 until today. I have them categorised so it’s relatively easy to find emails.

  7. smlee4 says:

    wow, that must have been a huge archive!

  8. chrishansenhome says:

    It’s more than a GB of data at the moment, and still rising. I should take some of it off in an archive, I suppose.