Monday, April 07, 2014

Financial Help!

An amusing new message appeared in one of my email boxes.
Subject: I will help you financially!!!

HELLO MY NAME IS JENNIFER CLINTON I AM A UNITED STATES CITIZEN USA BUT I HAVE MY COMPANY., I LOST MY HUSBAND AND THREE KIDS IN FATAL ACCIDENT IN 2005. SINCE THEN I COULD NOT GAIN MYSELF. HOWEVER, I WILL LOVE TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED AND THE BUSINESS MAN AND WOMAN WHO NEED LOAN AND ALSO NEED MONEY FOR BUSINESS. IF YOU NEED MY HELP PLEASE CONTACT ME I WILL HELP YOU FINANCIALLY.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU

My email: [redacted]

jennifer
Gee-whiz, what a helpful, generous sounding person. I would never suspect this of being some kind of scam.

I'm not fooling anyone, am I? Of course it's some kind of scam! The "from" address on the message doesn't even match the email that "jennifer" provided. It's tempting to respond to see just how "jennifer" would try to finagle money from me.