[Grav!ty]

Is there really anyone dumb enough to fall for something like this?

eMail received:

DEAREST PASTOR

HOW IS THE CHURCH HOPE IS MOVING WELL I WANT TO MAKE A DONATIONTO THE CHURCH,I AM A WIDOW WITHOUT A CHILD OR ISSUE TO INHERITE WHAT MY LATE HUSBAND LABOURED FOR HERE ON THIS EARTH,TODAY I AM SICK NOT KNOWING IF I WILL SURVIVE THE OPERATION I AM ABOUT TO UNDER GO,pls email me back for you to have the contacts of the money $8.5millionusd.with the rules attached to
it

yours sister in christ
Gloria Moses

[mnemonicj]

If you like to read stories of people that reply to these things for the purposes of scamming the scammer, check out 419eater.com. There are some pretty hilarious things they do to these scammers.

[Grav!ty]

Yeah, I've seen some really good ones that have at the very least cost the scammer/s serious money thinking they're about to reap it big and need to show a "gesture of goodwill"

[yeshuas]

LOL I read some of those, I wish I had the time to stick it to some of them.

A few years ago I got one, saying the usual like they needed some way to clear some amount like 8 million, and made a reverse offer to whomever, saying I had the same situation only for like 3 times the amount that they had offered.

Within a few days my email inbox was innundated with scam offers and it continued to the point of me having to close and stop using the email address.

[augie]

I recently read about one pastor who did get scammed and lost a whole bunch of the churches' money which they could ill afford.

[kanaloa]

I got that same message the other day, at work and at GMail.