"Gob Bless You"

ADAM Web Design · #1 (**permalink**) 06-16-2005, 02:44 PM

The good ol' 419 scam has taken a unique new twist. Please see the spam below, quoted in its entirety including any grammatical or spelling mistakes:

Quote:

Dear partner

This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met personally. My name is Lars Jerry, a business merchant in Indonesia. I was a victim of the TSUNAMI disaster that led over 174,000 people dead in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Well, I lost all my family members and was seriously injured as a result of this catastrophe and currently hospitalised in Dubai, U.A.E. My illness has defiled all form of medical treatment and I only have about a few months to live according to medical report. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business. But now I regret all these as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in this world. Now that I know my time is near, I want to will and give most of my properties and assets to you to enhance the relief of other Asian Tsunami Victims and other charity aid. I have decided to give alms for charity aid, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. But i am afraid most of these charity organisations will use it for their personal interests without someone to co-ordinate this task.

Hence, i am seeking a trust-worthy person who is able to help me carry out this great task. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I lost alot of money, assests, properties, etc due to this disaster. Meanwhile, i still have $9,500,000.00 USD (Nine million five hundred U. S. dollars only) cash deposit that I have with a Financial Firm Abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it for humanitarian aid. Also, you will let them know that it is I Lars Jerry that is making this generous donations to them to serve as memorial while I was on earth. I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and assist me with good heart.

Also, these are the necessary criteria you have to meet before I will give you the full authority over the fund:

(a). My conviction of your transparent, honesty and diligence and you will treat this transaction as I have instructed you to do.

(b). Upon the receipt of the funds, you will promptly release $3,000,000.00 USD to charity aid to help the needy, $5,000,000 USD will be used for investment and you will ONLY take the balance $1,500,000.00 USD for your noble assistance.

(c). You must be ready to produce me with enough information about yourself to put my mind at rest, by providing your full beneficiary name, your contact address, telephone and fax numbers for further communication.

(d) All necessary legal documentations must be undertaken before you can have the full right over this fund and other properties which i will give to you in due course.

(e) Also, you will be entitle to 20% of the annual income of any investment you wish to go into in rder to enhance further charitable work. I would suggest that you can invest this money into stocks, properties, bonds, etc. or any lucrative business you may suggest.

I will bring you into the complete picture of the transaction when I have heard from you. Your urgent response will be highly appreciated with all your contact details.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and Gob bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Lars Jerry.

I'm just glad I was blessed by Gob and THE Lars Jerry. This guy's a legend in the field of...whatever...he does...so well. I was worried that Spitan was going to take over my soul, and that Lars Jerry wouldn't ever know who I was.

I'm way too easily amused. ;)

webhost1 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005, 03:56 PM

I have since quit reading these letters of oh please send me your money so I can rip you off. Just another twist to the story.

xmx · #3 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005, 04:15 PM

Yes, it's fantastic to be blessed by "GOB", and maybe also by the "angles"...

brian.mark · #4 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005, 05:48 PM

I got one from a Mike Smith from South Africa this past week. It struck me funny, as that name isn't very African.

I really wonder how much money they make doing this. If they made zero, then surely they would have stopped. They must have some ill-gotten gains from this.

Brian.

webhost1 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005, 05:51 PM

You don't hear that much about this. The only time I have heard about this was an article that was posted in some news forum. They went into great lengths to expalin all about the letter. Since than I have seen so many different examples of the letters I am no longer surprise as to what they come up with.

MichelH · #6 (**permalink**) 06-24-2005, 10:00 AM

'I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed'

He is from Indonesia, he was struck by the tsunami and injured very bad.

Hmmm, I wonder how the laptop survived the tsunami and secondly, who brought it to him in the hospital!? I mean, all his family members were dead, so maybe there was a person who had found his laptop and thought: Hey, I might as well go the hospital to see if this laptop belongs to anyone. Oh, my god, the hospital is in the U.A.E., let's fly there to bring this poor man his laptop...

These scams are so terribly stupid that I can't even imagine that anyone will fall for this. (Okay, unless you woke up this morning after 20 years of sleep in a freezer...but even then!)

R2D2 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-24-2005, 10:45 AM

Really lazy those crooks, last week I got a lottery scam email, it said I had won on certain numbers a certain amount. When I googled for the letters topic I found it posted on a scam alert site the same. It was almost identical, cited the same winning numbers, the same amount and only the date of the draw was different.

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