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Or so says Ms. Margaret Krissie:

Dear Honest Friend,

My name is Ms. Margaret Krissie I am a dying woman who have decided to
donate what I have to you/ church. I am 58 years old and I was diagnosed for
cancer for about 3 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who
has left me everything he worked for.

I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my
late husband to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my relatives
to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord
forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has
because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less
than one hour.

I decided to WILL/donate the sum of US$7,500,000.00 (Seven Million, Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) to you for the good work of the lord, and
also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance
of the widows.

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact
that my relatives are around me and my health status. I have adjusted my
WILL and my lawyer is aware I have changed my will and he will arrange the
transfer of the funds from my account to you. But this fund is in a bonded
state with an irrevocable comprehensive insurance cover, as a security
measure against my husband relatives. I wish you all the best and may the
good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always
extend the good work to others.

Contact my lawyer with this specified Email Address: -
{emorganlawyer@aol.com} and tell him that I have WILLED US$7,500,000.00
(Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) to you by quoting my
personal reference number E-Morgan and Associates EM/EG/WILL/092514131209
and I have also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you for a
specific and good work. I know I don’t know you but I have been directed by
God to do this. Thanks and God bless.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the
task is accomplished as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last
wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don’t want my
relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.

Best Regards,

Ms. Margaret Krissie.

I get about 5 of these per day - at least - but this one tickled my funny bone. I know, cancer is hilarious! You know what I mean.

I just don’t get the people who answer these kind of nutty emails. Don’t you ever question why Ms. Krissie would contact you, as opposed to say, one of the other gazillion mac users (mine came to a mac.com address)?

I saw a woman on Judge Judy who bought into this stuff. She really thought that she had won a random lottery and tried to pass a bogus “winning” check. She never thought to question it apparently. She just thought that she had gotten lucky. And while it’s easy to chalk this kind of stuff up to poor, uneducated people who are just dying for a way out, I will say that it’s not true. All kinds of people fall for this stuff. A colleague at Big Law Firm had a very wealthy client who flew to London to meet at a pre-arranged spot for purposes of being personally repaid money that he had advanced in one of these schemes. Of course, the other party never showed and the client was out a bit of money. The client was a sophisticated business person - and he had counsel! What was he thinking?

I guess, at the end of the day, people just want to believe that random, unbelievably good things will just happen. Here’s a heads up: if it does, it won’t require you to pay a bond.

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