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Scams are becoming more prevalent

Found this in my spam folder

..From Mrs Bridggie William
Ave 12 Rue 123 Abobo 01
Cote D' Ivoire Abidjan


With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground. My name is Mrs Bridggie William nationality of Mozambique .I am married to Mr. Francisco Willam director J.R Industries Cote d'Ivoire. We were married for 46 years without a child. He died after a Cadiac Arteries Operation.

And Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last longer due to my cancer problem (cancer of the liver and stroke).Before my husband died last year there is this sum $15.8 Million Dollars that he deposited at the Security Valut here In Ivory Coast. Presently this money is still in the Vault. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to any good God fearing brother or sister that will utilize this fund the way I am going to instruct herein..

I want somebody that will use this fund according to the desire of mylate husband to help Less privilaged people, orphanages,widows and propagating the word of God. I inherit this fund, And I don't want in any way where this money will be used in took this decision because I don't have any child that willan unGodly way. This is why I am taking this decision to hand you over this Fund.

I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.I want you to always remember me in your daily prayers because of my up coming Cancer Surgery. Write back as soon as possible any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose.

Hoping to read from you asap.God bless you as you listening to the voice of reasoning.


Mrs Bridggie William
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I thought that type of fraud had largely died out.

Evidently not. It goes back a long way, pre-dating antisocial-media, using printed or typed letters.

I did receive an e-post version of these a couple of years ago, its writer pretending to be the Minister of Finance of one of the Arabic potentates. Yes - and I am the Great Panjandrum of Gondwana.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@ArishMell Still prevalent, increasing really. That is my experience. Plus I occasionally get phone scam messages.
[b] I am the Great Panjandrum of Gondwana.[/b] Funny 😄
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Gusman I receive roughly similar numbers of phone and e-post attempts, and most are computer-related or pretend to be from some bank with which I have no account anyway.

A few pretend to be from some official body but are still usually easy to identify as false. The "Nigerian Prince" scam though seems very rare here - the first I ever saw was by letter, and from Canada!

I had a long-running slew of e-messages pretending to be Internet-security advice from a particular bank I do not use, but as I have not seen one for quite some time now perhaps the gang has realised I will not co-operate!

A large number of the telephone calls are the silent ones, or I interrogate the answer-service to find perhaps one genuine message "and three callers who left no message".

My telephone does not display the caller number so I do not know if a call is [i]bona-fide[/i] or not until I answer. Even that is not foolproof because I have quite wide circles of friends and acquaintances so cannot know all their numbers, and some scammers use proxy numbers of British format.