Monday, November 2, 2009

Dear lovely one,

This turned up in the message box of my account at the Cracked.com, which provenance makes me wonder whether it's really a genuine scam, or someone faking a scam, which would presumably in some way be different. Follow the link for spam!


From : Melanie Ibrahim
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

My E mail : m2009ibrahim@yahoo.co.th


Dear lovely one,
Pardon me for not having the pleasure of knowing your mindset before making you this offer and it is utterly confidential and genuine by
virtue of its nature. I want someone like you to help me out after i had pray ,then believes that you are a good person and that i can stay with you for the rest of my life , am 22 years old lady , My late dad is a wealthy and successful business man before he died , My mum died when i was a baby , am the only child in the family.

Before the death of my dad , he called me secretly in the private hospital where he was admitted and inform me to run away from his house because of his blood brother, who is my uncle, It was on that day, my dad revealled to me that , it was his brother who poisoned him to this level .

Inshort, he seriously warn me to keep this money secretly because he know that, it was because of all his wealth and properties, his brother decided to kill him so that he can inherit all this properties as i am a girl , My dad disclose to me that traditionally,i don't suppose to get any of his properties because i am a girl , He said soonest, i am going to marry to another family but due to his brother wickedness and greedy, he did not disclose to him about this money ( us dollars10.5 million ) in the bank and he seriously advise me to transfer this total money to oversea account for my investment, where i will start my new life and finish my education , Because of this reason, i am soliciting your assistance for the claim and transfer to your bank account for the business.

Honestly speaking , i am ready to give you 15percent of this total money for your assistance and with extra 5percent for your expenses on phone call, please u reply me now if really serious to help me out so that i can tell you more about my intention.

Anyway,you can not understand anything now because it is a long story but please and please for God sake , reply me so that i can tell you more about myself and the transfer.

Best Regards,

Melanie Ibrahim

Perhaps I should reply her now since ,after all, not only can I not understand anything now but she ,did apologize for not having the pleasure of knowing my mindset and it, is an utterly confidential offer and genuine by virtue of its nature.

Something about the thoroughly mangled grammar, the whimsically placed commas, and the fact that this is showing up in a Cracked.com message box, however, all seem almost too ideally comical. I suspect, in other words, that whoever sent this message hoping for gullible replies to serve their own purposes is not in fact the person sending the message hoping for gullible replies to serve their own purposes that they are purporting to be.

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