What an offer!

@Fleura (34927)
United Kingdom
September 12, 2021 6:11pm CST
I just received the following email: My name is Mrs. Peninnah Ariel Benaiah I am a Norway Citizen who is living in Burkina Faso, I am married to Mr. Benaiah Jeremiah, a politician who owns a small gold company in Burkina Faso; He died of Leprosy and Radesyge, in the year February 2010, During his lifetime he deposited the sum of €8.5 Million Euro) Eight million, Five hundred thousand Euros in a bank in Brussels the capital city of Belgium in Europe The money was from the sale of his company and death benefits payment and entitlements of my deceased husband by his company. I am sending you this message with heavy tears in my eyes and great sorrow in my heart, and also praying that it will reach you in good health because I am not in good health, I sleep every night without knowing if I may be alive to see the next day. I am suffering from long time cancer and presently I am partially suffering from Leprosy, which has become difficult for me to move around. I was married to my late husband for more than 6years without having a child and my doctor confided that I have less chance to live, having to know when the cup of death will come, I decided to contact you to claim the fund since I don't have any relation I grew up from an orphanage home. I have decided to donate this money for the support of helping Motherless babies/Less privileged/Widows and churches also to build the house of God because I am dying and diagnosed with cancer for about 3 years ago. I have decided to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to you for the good work of Almighty God; I will be going in for an operation surgery soon. Now I want you to stand as my next of kin to claim the funds for charity purposes. Because of this money remains unclaimed after my death, the bank executives or the government will take the money as unclaimed fund and maybe use it for selfishness and worthless ventures, I need a very honest person who can claim this money and use it for Charity works, for orphanages, widows and also build schools and churches for less privilege that will be named after my late husband and my name. I need your urgent answer to know if you will be able to execute this project, and I will give you more information on how the fund will be transferred to your bank account or online banking. Thanks Mrs. Peninnah Ariel Benaiah I am incredibly touched that, out of the 7.67 billion people in this world, Mrs Benaiah chose me to be the conduit of her charitable largesse! I do wonder, though, why she can’t just donate it directly to any of the well-known international charities that help those less privileged as she claims to want to do. I very rarely receive messages such as this one so I just had to share it with you all : )
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17 responses
@DianneN (254949)
• United States
13 Sep 21
She knows you have a good heart. I hope you gave her your bank account number, so she can execute this project for her and her late husband.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
You forgot to add "and share the money with all your myLot friends"...
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
13 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil Yes, and that, too!
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
She knows, from what she's obviously read about you on myLot, that you're a kind and generous woman who is, hopefully, silly enough to believe her story and give her your account information. If I were you, I'd, quickly, make up an account with an online bank, give the online bank all your physical banking information and your PayPal information, along with all pertinent codes and passwords and send her the information she so desperately needs, before her surgery starts so she will know you will take care of everything for her... And, of course, give most of the money to all your friends on myLot as soon as it goes into your new online banking account.
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• Germany
13 Sep 21
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
13 Sep 21
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
Oh dear I wonder where I gave the impression I was gullible?
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
13 Sep 21
My donors usually come from Nigeria and are related to me although I have never been there nor have any of mine ever. Now that woman has problems. Not only she has cancer but she also has leprosy.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
@Fleura The other name for Radesygye is syphilis.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
And of course she is a widow and she has Radesygye, a horrible disease which was prevalent in parts of Norway in the 1770s!
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil I had never heard of this disease before so at least her message taught me something interesting! From what I've read there is a theory that it was tertiary syphilis, but that is only from looking back at cases over 200 years or more afterwards, which of course is difficult to prove. And the symptoms don't seem to fit all that well. I might just write a post about it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
13 Sep 21
They can really write a whopper of a story.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
Certainly can! Maybe we should have a competition here on MyLot to see who can produce the most convincing scam letter?
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
13 Sep 21
I received one long time ago too! I wonder that too!
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
13 Sep 21
@Vree0937 so true!
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@Vree0937 (3878)
• Indonesia
13 Sep 21
many kinds of scams these days
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@Vree0937 (3878)
• Indonesia
13 Sep 21
Oh no! do not fall to this trap. This is a scam!
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
Shhh! Don't tell her that!
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Sep 21
@Vree0937 Oh, my! I'm sorry that happened. But, in this case, Fleur knows it's a scam so we're teasing her about accepting the offer. She won't do it, I promise.
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@Vree0937 (3878)
• Indonesia
13 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil My aunt fall on this trap, and stupidly sent the person money as "tax" before he can sent those money to her... arrrrggggg
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
13 Sep 21
Quite entertaining of course.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
Yes, I rarely get these so they are amusing when they arrive!
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
13 Sep 21
I don`t believe in such letter. Be careful
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• Germany
13 Sep 21
@Fleura You`re right
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
I don't believe a word of it either - how could anyone?
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@kaylachan (84701)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Sep 21
Because it's a scam, and a smart person knows that she could leave it to Cherity in her will (if she really does exist)
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
Exactly, what could be easier than donating the money to charity now or leaving it in her will?
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• China
14 Sep 21
It is too good to be true-there must be a catch somewhere.I suspect that you are not the only person who received the email.
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• China
15 Sep 21
@Fleura We can't rule out the possibility that some people will be taken in and do what the woman hopes.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
15 Sep 21
@changjiangzhibin89 Undoubtedly some will - otherwise it wouldn't be worth their while sending out these things.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
Me too - and sadly if they send this kind of rubbish to enough people, they will catch a few who actually believe it.
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@jstory07 (148701)
• Roseburg, Oregon
14 Sep 21
It is a scam do not fall for it.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
Don't worry I know. I don't really understand how anyone could think that someone with money they wish to give to charity would contact a total stranger for help and not just give it to a charity themselves!
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
13 Sep 21
This kind of messages always end up in my SPAM folder and I never read what those spammers write. She needs a very honest person and she does not contact the President of a Charity to ask to take care of the matter? They think that people are stupid I suppose. The real Mrs. Peninnah Ariel Benaiah posted on her site to warn of this scam... see the print screen below.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
14 Sep 21
@Fleura I think we all received those Nigerian scam emails. It is a while that I do not get them. I noticed some new about people sick with Covid who are asking to be helped. Those scammers never stop.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
@LadyDuck Everyone seemed to get them - except me! I almost felt as if I was missing out so I was quite excited when I finally received one!
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
I hardly ever receive any so that's why it's such a novelty. I waited years to get one of those Nigerian scam emails. They end up in my spam folder too but I do check that at least once per day.
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@xFiacre (14782)
• Ireland
13 Sep 21
@fleura Bless her little cotton socks.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 21
That so kind of her isn't it, to choose me and not the other 7,670,000 people she could have chosen!
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
13 Sep 21
These go straight to the trash can.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
They do - but I look in there at least once a day.
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@prinzcy (32299)
• Malaysia
17 Sep 21
There's always generous stranger like this Wonder whether this is the same one who tried to share wealth with me.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
17 Sep 21
There do seem to be a lot of them about, all these people with so much spare money they don't know what to do with it!
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
2 Dec 21
This is a good one! Makes a lot of sense. Until of course she asks for your bank account number. You ask a good question. Why can't she donate it herself?!
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@sarik1 (7815)
14 Sep 21
I do not believe it. be careful.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
I don't believe a word of it. How could anyone believe this?
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@sarik1 (7815)
14 Sep 21
@Fleura Right.
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