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 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, since she favorited me, I assumed she would read this post. We shall see.
Steel Breeze, gullibility has no age limit.
HUGGGGGGGG
HUGGGGGGGG
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
Oh well I guess I'm not getting any EP's either... ever!
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.
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.
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.
might actually provide the information they need
for a mere pittance.
I wonder how many answered her
rated with love
r.
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!
Romantic, good question. There's a sucker born every minute.
Thanks for this post, Erica!
Hugs,
~Cyn~