Good day dear beloved 

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PG hasn’t received a classic scam email in a long time (not that he’s looking for more).

Good day dear beloved

It’s a pleasure meeting you today, how is everything with you, hope all is well with you my name Mrs. Mary Athorga Kumba i am a widow in my husband blessed memory by name late Dr.Jame Athorga Kumba Who was the Executive Director of Finance with my country oil company,

He was assassinated along side with two of my beloved son, Our family house was burnt down by the militants During the last crisis in my country,

I Actually in search of an honest and reliable person who will help me to relocate, for a better life, i have chosen to contact you after my prayers, My proposal to you is about transaction of US$9.5 Million (Nine Million Five hundred thousand US Dollars) which I inherited from my late husband to you country i have all the legal document about the money and the transaction is legal please get back to me for more details: mary.ku01@hotmail.com

I am now Waiting for your response: E-mail: mary.ku01@hotmail.com

Yours Mary

16 thoughts on “Good day dear beloved ”

  1. Yup, saw this or one just like it a few months ago.

    Like the phone scams, they don’t actually have any info on you and are trying to gain more to better con you.

    The MS ones I get them to ‘confirm’ they can see my actual computer (they can’t.) I then admit to having several ms computers online and ask them to give my the computer name (none are ‘my ‘pc/computer), when they start sputtering I say fine, if you can see it on the internet you can read me the MAC address of the network card (this is where they hang up knowing they aren’t getting in. 😉 )

    For the ‘advance pain management center’ I ask which of my doctors this is in reference to (which is often also good for a hang up.)

    • You just like to mess with them.
      The one time I got the Microsoft service phone scam, I just snickered, “Yeah, right. I have friends at MS you idiots!”

      They hung up before I could.
      No more scam phone calls.

    • Aw, I wish the scammers for the Marriot Hotel version would use a person on the line. All I get is a computer voice thanking me for staying there (I never have). You can’t have fun revenge-pranking a computer.

    • For Microsoft scam, first I got them to give me their “support” link for them to connect to my computer, so I could report their account to the service provider. After that, I was happy to follow their phone directions to try and connect them into my computer, but for some reason none of them worked as expected on my Unix machine…

    • I was between jobs a couple of years ago and had a lot of time on my hands, so I answered every scam call and often played dumb to see how long I could keep them on the line. I figured if they were on a call with me, they couldn’t rob the unsuspecting who think they’re legit. They’re really good at scaring senior citizens into giving them money, which burns me very, very much.

      I love asking the IRS scammers why they’re not calling me from a 202 area code. They do have inventive responses. Also why they didn’t send me a registered letter. And how I could possibly have incurred those penalties when I paid my taxes. If you act gullible, they’ll make stuff up while thinking they’ve got a real idiot on the line.

      The most fun I ever had was doing this for about ten minutes before the guy gave me to his “supervisor.” I got one question in and he hung up, doubtless to berate the trainee.

  2. PG, send her an email telling her you need $5,000,000 from her, proving she’s sincere, before you can continue this budding relationship.

  3. Really? The widow of an executive director of an oil company? That’s the best they could do? It’s supposed to be a prince! The quality of scammers has clearly gone down…

    If I were you, I’d hold out for at least a Duke.

    • Princes are getting scarce on the ground these days.

      Has anyone else noticed, though, that the spam comments on social media are no longer using the Alphabet company? I’ve seen about two dozen different ones lately – a lot of them companies that I’ve never heard of before (when I checked, yes, they do exist).

      I wonder if this reflects a loss of public trust in that company…

  4. I apologize for the length of this story, but you might find it amusing. It’s the account of my first authentic Nigerian scam. This is how I reported it at Facebook two years ago:

    . . . . .

    I received a Facebook message from someone called Stoops Mark. I went to the person’s Facebook page and found only a few images on the timeline. Otherwise, nothing, other than a 1954 birthday, a notation of being a widow since 2013, and the name “Trish Henry.”

    As you will see below, “Trish Henry” says she is 60, but the photo doesn’t appear to me to be someone of that age. But judge for yourself. Here’s a transcript of our exchange:

    SM: Hello Karl.

    KK: Hello.

    SM: Nice to meet you, Karl. I trust you are doing great.

    KK: Not so bad. And you?

    SM: Been battling with ill health.

    KK: Sorry to hear that. I hope you’re winning the battle.

    SM: {smile} I would love to discuss something very sensitive with you, if you do not mind.

    KK: Go ahead.

    SM: My name is Mrs. Trish Henry. I am a retired real estate contractor and I live in Accra, Ghana. I am 60 years old and seriously stricken by deadly laryngitis (severe voice disorder condition), chronic arthritis, and hypertension. I have no offspring of my own hence I and my late husband decided to live without children.

    KK: I didn’t know laryngitis could be deadly, Trish. Please, go on.

    SM: Now I am very sick and my condition is getting worse everyday by day. My speech is almost lost due to the chronic laryngitis condition of my throat, I cannot walk again because of the serious arthritis on all my body joints. I remain in the hospital everyday of my life and the doctor said that my condition could not be salvaged by medications, except that I will wait for the time I will die which he predicts to be soonest, that means my days are numbered.

    KK: Where were you living before moving to Accra?

    SM: My late husband is one of the expatriate who work in a Gold Mining Company here before he died. We are from Battambang, Cambodia. We have been here for years.

    KK: The name “Trish” doesn’t sound Cambodian to me.

    SM: I got married to a Cambodian.

    KK: “Henry” doesn’t sound Cambodian either.

    SM: My late parent lives in Provo in Utah. Before my late husband died, he willed every property of his to me including all his finances deposited in the bank (USD$13,500.000.00) and other valuable properties including 130 kilograms of 24 carat alluvial gold bars deposited in a security company for safe keep, his 120 acres of cocoa and sugar cane farms.

    KK: Well, it’s nice to know that you’re so wealthy that you can afford the very best medical treatment. I suggest you charter a private plane and go to the Mayo Clinic. They have the best care in the U.S. I’m sure they can solve your laryngitis problem.

    SM: I have been managing my health for years now in Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore U.S. I am very such you are aware that of that name. It’s a household name in the state.

    KK: I’m very familiar with Johns Hopkins. I have a close association with it. It is the equal of the Mayo Clinic.

    SM: Yeah.

    KK: So, what country are you from originally?

    SM: I thought I have told you that.

    KK: No, you said you used to live in Cambodia and that your husband was Cambodian.

    SM: You should understand that medications has limit, especially when Death comes knocking after you have spent so much and your health appeared to be deteriorating.

    KK: That’s true. But at least you have lots more to spend, so you don’t have to worry about affording the best medical care. I hope you make sure you get it. . . . So, you didn’t tell me your nationality. In which country were you born?

    SM: I said Provo in Utah.

    KK: Oh, Provo! So I guess you’re a Mormon?

    SM: {smile} Am not their member. Just knew that my parent came from Provo but my life and education was outside Provo.

    KK: Yes, I can tell. You don’t write like a Mormon.

    SM: I want to entrust this great fortunes in your care and you will use it to care for the less privileged in your country/society, care for the orphans, widows and widowers in your country/society and finally build a home for homeless, less privileged, orphans who do not have a place to call home. Please do let me know if you can handle this offer and there will be a huge financial reward for you if you accept to take up this philanthropic responsibilities on my behalf.

    KK: I don’t know. I’ve never seen that much money. It sounds like a heavy responsibility.

    SM: I want you to understand that my contact with you as a servant of God regarding this divine charity project was often my prayers to God to give me someone who will not betray or disappoint me with the vow I made to the name of God.

    KK: So what do you suggest?

    SM: I got your contact through the hospital nurse help after search for responsible Christian names that will utilize this money deposited by my husband for charity work and orphanage projects. After searching the name of you with the help of nurse here at Facebook, I prayed with all names and asked God for a clear direction before contacting you.

    KK: Anyway, what do you want me to do about your money?

    SM: I can’t remember the last time I laughed the way your questions made me do.

    KK: Oh, oh. I have to go now. The warden is coming, and we all have to go back to our cells.

    SM: What do you mean by cells?

    KK: Here at the state prison. Our recreation time is over. We have to go back to our cells. It’s not a bad prison, really. I’m serving a term of 15 years for running a financial scam. I will be eligible for parole in just three more years. If your health improves by then, perhaps I can take a trip to Accra so we can meet!

    SM: Oh.

    • Brilliant! And soooo lengthy!

      My dad used to get rid of junk calls by answering the phone with “Mother Murphy’s Airline and Storm Window Company.”

  5. When I researched for an article, some of the email letters mostly from seeming Africa, I found that a greater scam was perpetrated on poor people in villages, offering to sell them a letter to send out to a bunch of addys on computer at near or far library, to ‘get money for sure’. People who have nothing, paid, went into debt, to buy the thumb drive or the letter hard copy to peck it all out on a keyboard at libr…

    Scum is too good a word for those who dupe the poorly educated and the impoverished. There is a special place in hell… prob Dante’s eight-nine layer

  6. When I researched for an article, some of the email letters mostly from seeming Africa, I found that a greater scam was perpetrated on poor people in villages, offering to sell them a letter to send out to a bunch of addys on computer at near or far library, to ‘get money for sure’. People who have nothing, paid, went into debt, to buy the thumb drive or the letter hard copy to peck it all out on a keyboard at libr…

    Scum is too good a word.

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