I have just been the lucky recipient of another scam email which I would like you to read.
As-salam ‘alaykum,
How are you doing? I am HASSAN IBRAHIM a merchant in DUBAI,I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous,I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know
that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.
Now that God has called me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul. so,I have decided to give also to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria, India and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore.
I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be
contended with what I have left for them.I will want you to help me collect my last deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations which I deposited in security/finance house abroad, which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of (Twenty five Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S dollars) I have set aside 25% for you, then 5% for any expenses incured.If you are interested, please send your prompt reply to my email address below which you will have to reply to if you will be kind enough to assist me;
Contact email:hassai0001@yahoo.com
May the almighty Allah bless you.
Regards,
Mr.Hassan Ibrahim
Not a bad effort and we can almost forgive the few spelling mistakes as one would presume from the intended origin of the email that it is not his natural tongue. This guy spins a nice yarn including the selection of a fairly terminal disease as Esophageal cancer has a fairly high death rate.
One could almost believe that a multi millionaire who has just discovered he is dying would turn to God in the hope of restitution, which he hopes will be strengthened by large donations to charity. Naturally he can not trust his greedy family and so he has turned to what he hopes is a gullible person on the end of this email.
It amazes me how so many millionaires have to resort to using a yahoo.com email address. Just for fun I looked at the ‘internet headers’ of the email only to find he had sent this particular email to hundreds of other recipients in the hope of finding at least one sucker.
Now I would really like to know how many people who have received this email will actually Google shit that they find in it to see whether or not it is really legit. Were you one of them?
