419 Letter

Another offer in the email:

I am Mrs Monica Doday,  wife of Engineer Rashid Doday, of
Bulawayo-Zimbabwe. This is my 35 years of marriage with Mr. Rashid
,where my only son Dr Jeff and I are now resident in South Africa as
Asylum seeker (REFUGEE). I got your contact through South African
Chamber of Commerce and Industry. With your contact profile, I hope
that you can take care of the amount involved. I have some huge amount
of money, which I inherited from my dead husband a few months ago.

Well, yes, OK, but the best bit is this:

My husband was murdered in Zimbabwean

Can’t say I’ve ever heard someone worry about the language in which their spouse was murdered.

6 responses

  1. Nearly as good as one I had the other day. It might have been a spoof one though?
    http://awelshmaninmilano.blogspot.com/2005/04/is-silvio-going-native.html

  2. I’ve been getting this African scam emails for two years now.
    Tim adds: We all do I think. I actually got my first one as snail mail back in 1990.

  3. And I got this one.

  4. i get 0 spam 😛
    dont go signing me up to any either, i wonder which porn sites you guess used to get into their mail lists

  5. These people are doing the world a big favour. Anyone dumb enough to send money to such a scheme deserves to lose it and at the least I’m finding it a good Geography lesson to work out where all these African countries are (I went to a state school).

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