I are chosen by God
According to a recently received email:
Good day
Private Message to you,The lord spoke to me to share this with you. Please kindly sympathize with my current situation and assist. My name is Isabella Carmel, I escaped tsunami disaster some time ago which affected my spinal cord, my ear drum and claim my entire family, husband and two sons.
Right now I was discharged from hospital after spending many days. It might be a shock to you to know that I was eventually disabled due to the catastrophe that stroke me, I was now on a wheelchair after all form of treatment. I have decided to give arms to the needing in the societies. This should be a legacy laid down by me on earth therefore I decided to build charity organizations for the less privilege as my health has finally confirmed deteriorated so badly. With my present condition this project could not be executed personally by me due to my ailment. However your kind assistant is required to make this dream a reality. I have intend to invest the sum of $10.6M USD I deposited in (OVERSEA CREDIT COMMISSION) to help the less privileged. Perhaps you are chosen to help receive these funds from where it was deposited, and also to build charity organizations for the less privilege with it.
Please I will appreciate if you indicate interest to help actualize this dream and also include your contact telephone/fax numbers that will be forwarded to the (COMMISSION OFFICIALS) for onward communication with you as my appointed beneficiary on how to transfer the funds to you. I will provide you the legal documents that will enable you claim the funds.
If you are willing and ready to assist in this project, please e-mail me at caromelm@yahoo.com.hk without delay, while I wait to hear from you.
Thanks once again for your kindness may God guide and reward you in all your endeavors as you make me realize my last dreams and wishes.
Remain blessed,
Mrs. Isabella Caromel
So things have been kind of slow around the old meditation chamber lately, and what with all the holiday cheer and goodwill, I’m feeling in the mood for some evil. I’m tempted to see how far I can play this. Whaddaya all think?
Filed under: There are monkeyboys in the compound | Tags: passing the camel through the needle's eye, scams
Bookslinger
January 3, 2012
Go to a library or other place where you can use a public internet terminal anonymously. Sign up for a new email at a free email service. Email the scammer from the this new throw-away email address (from the public terminal), tell them you received their email, and that you’d like to help them out. Ask them to call you. Give them the phone # of your state’s attorney general or the non-emergency (full 3+7 digits) number of your local police dept.
Rameumptom
January 4, 2012
Vader,
Or tell them you are also a disabled war veteran and are interested in also doing charity work. Perhaps they can use some of their $10M to invest in your charity?
Vader
January 4, 2012
I’m reflecting on what the goal is here. It goes without saying that I’d like to waste as much of the scammer’s time and effort as possible. Ideally, I’d like this to end with a knock on his door by a law enforcement officer. However, it’s a Hong Kong address, so I suppose the potential is there for this to end with a bullet in the back of his head, which is a bit more than I’d like to accomplish.
For that matter, given it’s a Hong Kong address, I might want to take precautions to ensure i don’t get a knock on my door by a gang of thugs from the Triad. So some caution is in order.
I find myself reflecting on the fact that, if every person hit by this email responded with a “Yes!! YES!!! Where have you been all this time?” that was approximately as sincere as the one I’m about to send, he’d rapidly be swamped. Too bad I can’t organize such a thing.
Bookslinger, the advice to use a throwaway email from a public internet site is good, but I want to play them just a bit before revealing my hand. Rameumpton, your approach would twig them at once that I’m trying to rescam them, though it may be worth keeping in mind for some point further down the road. I’m thinking more along the lines that I’m an seventy-year-old Methodist lady living on a tiny pension in a tinier trailer who was just looking for a miracle from God.
Bookslinger
January 4, 2012
Or: With your throw-away email, set up a free throw-away texting phone # from http://www.pinger.com/textfree .
You actually get a free real phone number, but it’s for texting (send/recv) only. No voice, no voice-mail.
With all the land-lines being abandoned, and all the pager (remember those?) numbers being abandoned, (and all the new area codes that don’t have to have a “0″ or “1″ as the 2nd digit) there have been lots of phone numbers opened up. So many that Pinger.com is giving them away for free.
You can also download a free Pinger/Textfree app for your iphone/Android device, but that is not as secure/safe as using their web interface from a public terminal.
Adam G.
January 4, 2012
I’m thinking more along the lines that I’m an seventy-year-old Methodist lady living on a tiny pension in a tinier trailer who was just looking for a miracle from God.
do it.
Vader
January 4, 2012
On reflection, that story won’t quite work. I need to have some money to be defrauded of. How about a seventy-year-old Methodist lady living on a tiny pension in a small but fully paid for house who is just looking for a miracle from God?
That should do it.
Vader
January 4, 2012
So now I’m worrying the “Woe unto him that lieth in wait to deceive because he supposeth another lieth in wait to deceive” thing. I’m not supposing here, but still.