jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Almost every week I receive one of these scam attempts, but the one I received today is a masterpiece, way over the top. Maybe there should be Emmy type awards for these attempts but see what you think:


"GREETINGS


My Name is Mrs Renate Settnik, a German Citizen, I know that this message will be a surprise to you. Firstly, I am married to Mr. Bernd Settnik A gold merchant who owns a small gold Mine in Burkina Faso; He died of Cardiovascular Disease in mid-March 2011. During his life time he deposited the sum of € 8.5 Million Euro) Eight million, Five hundred thousand Euro in a bank in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina
Faso in West Africa . The deposited money was from the sale of the shares, death benefits payment and entitlements of my deceased husband by his company.

I am sending this message to you praying that it will reach you in good health, since I am not in good health condition in which I sleep every night without knowing if I may be alive to see the next day. I am suffering from long time cancer and presently i am partially suffering from a stroke illness which has become almost impossible for me to move around. I am married to my late husband for over 4 years before he died and is unfortunately that we don't have a child, my doctor confided in me that i have less chance to live. Having known my health condition, I decided to contact you to claim the fund since I don't have any relation I grew up from the orphanage home,

I have decided to donate what I have to you for the support of helping Motherless babies/Less privileged/Widows' because I am dying and diagnosed of cancer for about 2 years ago. I have been touched by God Almighty to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to you for good work of God Almighty. I have asked Almighty God to forgive me and believe he has, because He is a Merciful God I will be going in for an operation surgery soon

This is the reason i need your services to stand as my next of kin or an executor to claim the funds for charity purposes. If this money remains unclaimed after my death, the bank executives or the government will take the money as unclaimed fund and maybe use it for selfish and worthless ventures, I need a very honest person who can claim this money and use it for Charity works, for orphanages, widows and also build schools for less privilege that will be named after my late husband and my name; I need your urgent answer to know if you will be able to execute this project, and I will give you more information on how the fund will be transferred to your bank account. Please contact me through this email address (renatesettnik6@gmail.com)

Waiting for your reply,

Thanks & Best Regards,

Mrs. Renate Settnik
renatesettnik6@gmail.com"

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Of all the people in the world, she picked you.




(And him, and him, and him, and her, and........

jim quist Loc: Missouri

I get those too. Sometimes I respond with "I can't believe how much drugs and naked women that will buy me." One time the person responded telling me how bad of a decision I was making.

Now I go to an English to Russian translation page and type in "I can't read this language you are using." And I respond with that in Russian (Я не понимаю этого языка, который ты мне пишешь). That has stopped a lot of the emails.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

I get those at least once a week

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I've never received an email like that. But then I have pretty good spam filters set up.