This has got to be a con:

**Awake And Dreaming** · 03-24-2006 08:33 AM

I recieved this message about a week ago through my email linked by several blog sites:

Charity

Dear friend,
Greetings in the name of the Lord,As you read this, I don't
want you to feel sorry for me,because, I know everyone will
die someday.
My name is Mr Sal Rabb a merchant in
Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal
cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and
right now I have only about a few months to live, according
to medical experts.
I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never
really cared for anyone but my
business.Though I am very rich, I was never Generous, I was
always hostile to people and only focused on my business as
that was the only thing I cared for.But now I regret all
this, as I now know that there is more to life
than just wanting to have or make all the money in the
world. I have willed out most of my property and assets to
my immediate and extended family members as well as a few
close friends.
I have decided to give alms to charity organizations,as I
want this one of the last good deeds I do on earth.
So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that
my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this
myself anymore. I once asked members of my family to close
one of my accounts and distribute the money that I have
there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan,
they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do
not trust them anymore, as they are not contended
with what I have left for them.
The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash
deposit of eighteen million dollars $18,000,000,00 that I
have with a finance/Security Company abroad. I will want
you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to
charity organizations.I have set aside 10% for your time.
God be with you.
Sal Rabb
forward your reply to salluvschrist@katamail.com for my own convenience
p.s,i will like part to go for the hurricane victims

I know this is a dead on con artist, but what do you all think?

**cocoastar** · 03-24-2006 08:42 AM

That is the latest internet scam. I get about 20 "offers" like that a day in my email inbox. It is just another scam...delete it.

**Neruo** · 03-24-2006 08:56 AM

lol.

Microsoft gives you 100 dollar if you send to email to all your friends!1!1111!!

lolscam

**Seeker** · 03-24-2006 10:12 AM

Yep, I get those all the time as well. My favorite one however is the one I got from the widow of Yassar Arafat wanting me to help her transfer money.

**Gwendolyn** · 03-24-2006 10:33 AM

Originally posted by Seeker
Yep, I get those all the time as well. My favorite one however is the one I got from the widow of Yassar Arafat wanting me to help her transfer money.

**Demerzel** · 03-24-2006 10:45 AM

New? This is at least 5 or 6 years old

fogan sossah...

**DuB** · 03-24-2006 10:52 AM

It kills me that these things actually work sometimes.

**Fetish** · 03-24-2006 01:03 PM

That is so fake.

By the way I have the incredibly rare and totally real sickness, pumpkin face syndrom. that will kill me. please send money to me so I can give it to poor hungry Orphans and such. thank you ......... Fetish

**mongreloctopus** · 03-24-2006 05:49 PM

Originally posted by ~~o/~~~~~/~~~~shark!
anyone ever do any scambaiting?

like as in www.419eater.com

yah the 419 scam has worked...people even go over to africa sometimes to collect that money...people have been killed.

ah i was trying to remember the number associated with this. it's the british police code, no?

**Ynot** · 03-24-2006 06:58 PM

Originally posted by mongreloctopus
ah i was trying to remember the number associated with this. it's the british police code, no?

it's a myth
all british crime code numbers mean the same thing

"Quick, shoot the foreign looking guy - he could be a terrorist"

**mikeyfbi** · 03-24-2006 07:09 PM

It stuff like this that gives Internet Marketing a bad name.

tis a shame.

Michael Gartner

**jacobo** · 03-24-2006 09:24 PM

sounds like a good deal. go for it. and next time you get one of these good deals how about you keep them to yourself (you make more money that way).

-jake

**MSG** · 03-24-2006 11:05 PM

He can't transfer money but he can send emails?

**Tsen** · 03-24-2006 11:13 PM

My personal favorite was a forward that claimed to have an embedded address tracker. Anybody who doesn't forward this to ten people will DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!@1111!!1!

Yeah, it was pretty amusing. I saved a copy, but it was on my old (evil) AOL account, so it's lost now...

**dudesuperior** · 03-25-2006 12:51 PM

Oh wow! I just got an email from 'Mr Alfred mambo'. He wants me to safeguard $18.5, and if I agree I get 30% of the money! He says it's '100% risk free'- I'm in!

Why do these people target me?- am i sending out some kind of hillbilly/dumbass vibe?

**kafine** · 03-26-2006 05:18 AM

Heh heh, read "Yes Man" by Danny Wallace. He has to say yes to everything... and he gets a spam like this.

**Alex D** · 03-26-2006 08:14 AM

Originally posted by kafine
Heh heh, read "Yes Man" by Danny Wallace. He has to say yes to everything... and he gets a spam like this.

Oh yeah, brilliant book

**mongreloctopus** · 03-26-2006 01:07 PM

this has nothing to do with the topic, but palliate, that avatar is sweet.

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