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Grew up in Jackson Heights, New York, but now live in Jersey. Married and the proud owner (servant?) of 4 cats, including a little blind guy named Quincy. Jobs have included: English teacher in U.S. and abroad, cabaret performer and member of a NYC sketch comedy troupe; now a full-time legal secretary and freelance writer. Other jobs: canvasser for NYPIRG/cannery worker in Naknek, Alaska (a fisherman told me it was "the ugliest part of Alaska")/dog kennel cleaner/member of the swine and poultry crew on a California farm. Currently performing my solo show, "The Year of Dead Cats," at Stage Left Studio in NYC. http://stageleftstudio.net/ "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

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MAY 24, 2012 10:39AM

Has Anyone Else Received an Email from Mrs. Ahmed?

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Good morning, all.  I was wondering if anyone else received a lengthy email from Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, and if so, how you are choosing to respond (or not) to it?  I would call this part spam and part scam or spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs and spam.  What do you think? 

 Here is the body of Mrs. Ahmed's email:

Attn: Dear Mrs Erica,

Good Day and My compliment to you and your entire household,My name is Mrs Zainab Ahmed i am contact you Due to the current war and political differences going on in my country Libya, I have been thrown into a state of hopelessness by the administration lead by Col Muammar Gaddafi.I have lost confidence with anybody within my country.I got your contacts through personal research,and had to reach you through this medium. Due to security network placed on our daily activities by the Col Muammar Gaddafi lead government.

My late husband who was killed last three months by Col Muammar Gaddafi officials, before his sudden death, my late husband used to be a special Assistant to Col Muammar Gaddafi just because he resigned and asked Col Muammar Gaddafi to do same for the interest of the people of Libya, He sent his officials to kill my husband. Since After the death of my late husband ARIF Ahmed, Col Muammar Gaddafi lead government has taken over and sized all my late husband properties and closed all his local bank accounts here in Libya and place me and my family under house arrest after three of his men raped my second daughter to death.

Please I need your assistance to transfer the sum of 9.5 million dollar my late husband Deposited with a bank in UK in my name as the next of Kin into your private bank account in your country. I need you to help me secure this 9.5 million dollar in your private bank account before the new transition government in Libya will have knowledge and of it and frozen the account. This 9.5 million pounds is the only hope I and my entire family have to start a new life once again and I cannot afford to lose it to any government that is why i need you as my foreign beneficiary that we stand to contact the bank for the release of the funds to you and i promise to give you 40%per of the funds.

If you are interested to help me in transferring my funds to your account, do kindly provide me with the below stated information of yours.

(1) Your Full Names
(2) Your Contact Address
(3) Your Contact Telephone number
(4) Your Age And What you Do For A Living

Once I receive the above stated information from you, I will provide you with the 9.5 million deposit slip of the funds and the Information and direct you on how to contact our bank to enable them transfer my 9.5 million dollar to your account in your country reach me true this email : ( zainab2ahmed@yahoo.com )

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs Zainab Ahmed.

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I got that one months ago(except she said she was in some other faraway place!!! :D) and then the other day, she sent me an email stating the same.

I like to respond to them using my Fooey Email(Ed Fartes!! :D) at Hotmail to string them along, it's fun, it's entertaining and it keeps them away from people who might actually fall for this scam(what will happen after one or two emails, they'll tell you to contact their bank in London, who will then tell you to please send $$$ for fees and such then you'll get the money....hahahahaha!! :D)
Tink, she also "favorited" me, which is making me very nervous.
I got it---am CRUSHED that she's two timing me!
Uh oh, guess I outed her, Chicago!
She's so innocent and naive about American ways. She doesn't even ask for passwords or secret questions like "What was your first pet's name?"
See, I never had any of them favorite me, except a few that didn't send PMs but they were spammers!! EEK!! ~:D
still amazes me that some people still fall for this crap.......even an ol dummy like me knows better....
Con, exactly. I was wondering why she didn't ask for my social security number.

Tink, since she favorited me, I assumed she would read this post. We shall see.

Steel Breeze, gullibility has no age limit.
Tink probably sent her to you.:) Funny we get those messages but none of the ones others send us hahah
HUGGGGGGGG
Tink probably sent her to you.:) Funny we get those messages but none of the ones others send us hahah
HUGGGGGGGG
I be very sorry for you now. I not no my sister sent you dis lie! He has know 9.5 million dollars. She is dumm, he has monopolie money, she try to trick you.
Eye have real money. You help me, I give u half & half. First i kneed you send me 572.91$ so eye can pay over due Col Muammar Gaddafi party dues. Then i be able 2 get many millions$
I split then.
I mean we split money then!
iff you no answer dis, I know longer favorite you. I put a curse on your bald husband, an you never get another EP... ever!
I weighting for to here from you soon.
Yours for sure,
Mrs Zainab Ahmed's brother.
R
What a laugh! I just checked my mail box, and guess who sent me an email? That's right Mrs Zainab Ahmed.
Oh well I guess I'm not getting any EP's either... ever!
Dear Mrs. Erica,

You seem to be a magnet for this stuff. Better you than me.

I think we should be more understanding toward this poor woman with $9.5 million, or is it 9.5 million pounds? She can't be absolutely sure that she will get a helpful response from you, so she sent the same letter to 500,000 other people, as a fallback.

Imagine how her carpal tunnel felt at the end of that busy day.
Linda, I think you're right.

Mrs. Z's brother, okay, as long as we can split the money. I don't care about EPs, though. How did you know my husband was bald? Out on a limb, that was priceless!

Arthur, I don't feel sorry for anyone with $9.5 million to blow! Ha ha.
I got the very same message. You mean...OH NOOOOOOO!!!!!
I spoke too soon. I just got a message from the same person, who also has made me a favorite. The person in the photo on the blog site is a babe.
I see many emails like that in my spam folder. They they are spammed into the trash.
Her English looks better than most spammers. ;-)
Matt, oh, and I thought I was the only one.

Arthur, I'll have to check her out.

Mary, I get them a lot too, but this one really got me with the plea to do a transfer of $9.5 mil!

emmrose, yes it does. But no one calls me "Mrs. Erica". The subject line said "Good day?" I guess she wasn't sure if it was a good day or not.
Mrs Ahmeds letter to me evinced the same bone-deep chill I experience when Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly requests Facebook access to my online rolodex in order to supply me with "friends".
Monsieur, that indeed is bone-chilling too. I refuse to help Mrs. Ahmed unless she promises to split the $9.5 million 50/50 with me.
I get these twice a day now and they improve significantly when you read them out loud. They can be really fun - the syntax is sinful! I always wonder what they do with my occupation. I don't even know what to do with my occupation! /R
What, a government official in Libya who didn't manage to steal more than 9.5 million? Her husband was a slacker.
That is so scary!!!
I still hoping for a date with Mrs. Mubarak; she says she'll show up. R
Such a generous person, just looking for someone who thinks they
might actually provide the information they need
for a mere pittance.
I wonder how many answered her
rated with love
Can't these con artists get better writers to work for them? I can never get over how badly these letters are written. Your letter is particularly detailed. Wow. Lots of freaks out there who live by the "sucker born every minute" credo. The "entire household" is particularly creepy.
I would send her money but I already spent my SpamMoney this year on a Nigerian Prince. But I got a great deal of personal satisfaction out of it.

r.
Nilesite, they are funnier when read aloud!

Sirenita, I agree. But in his defense. I think he was a lower level party member.

Joanne, it's bizarre. I wonder who "Mrs. Ahmed" really is. Maybe she is a hacker teenager posing as a Libyan widow.

fernsy, the "entire household" part creeps me out too.

Jon, what a pity!
Thoth, let me know how it goes!

Romantic, good question. There's a sucker born every minute.
Spamity spam, spamity spam!!
jmac, don't you love Monty Python?
This is crazy! I haven't received this one but have many others that I've forwarded to the FBI. Some have even been threatening.
Thanks for this post, Erica!

Hugs,
~Cyn~
Cyn, it is crazy. Check out "Mrs. Ahmed's" avatar, "she" looks like a princess.
I heard once that one of letters was true?
I find that hard to believe, Algis. But I suppose anything is possible.