Email Fraud Alert received from: Astra
I recently received an email with this subject line: Please Reply and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Greetings to you.
I greet you with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is true that this letter may come to you as a surprise. Nevertheless, I humbly ask you to give me your attention and hear me well.
I am Mrs. Becky Rosen, 57 years old,I was married to Late: Mr. Irving Rosen 69 years, who worked with the South African Gold And Mining company for twenty three years, before he died in a plane crash on Egypt Air flight 990 crashed from Los Angeles International Airport, to Cairo International Airport, On 31 October 1999, the Boeing 767-366ER crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (100 km) south of Nantucket Island,Massachusetts,killing all 217 passengers on board of which my husband, Mr. Irving Rosen was one of the victim .
We were married for thirty-seven years without a child, before his death we were both devoted Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum USD$8,000,000.00 (Eight Million U.S. Dollars) with one of the private Bank and the money is still with the Bank till date and the Bank management just wrote me as the next of kin to come forward to receive the money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I cannot come in person, and am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my brain from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to the doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage
Having known my condition I decided to donate this money to Churches, organizations or good person that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein.
I want you to use this money for Churches, Charity organizations, orphanages, widows and other people that are in need. l took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money . Moreover, my husband relatives are not close to me since I develop a Cancer problem and it had been their wish to see me dead in order to inherit his wealth since we have no Child. These people are not worthy of this inheritance. This is why I am taking this decision.
I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my ill-health. As soon as I receive your reply I will give you the contact of the Bank in South Africa where this money is deposited. I will also issue a letter of authorization to the bank that will prove you the present beneficiary of this money. I also want you to always put me in prayer.
Please reply to me at my email address at bbrsen1@gmail.com
Any delay in your reply may give me room to look for another good person for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.
Thanks and Remain blessed
Yours Sister in The Lord,
Mrs. Becky Rosen
my email address:bbrsen1@gmail.com
The above email was sent by “Becky Rosen” from this email address: nassem@eun.eg
I, Astra, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Becky Rosen”:
You can greet me in whomsoevers name you choose Becky.
You can tell me that you have never remarried.
You can tell me that you had twenty misshapen children
You can tell me that it was divine intervention that revealed my e-mail address to you.
And, Guess what ………………………?
I still will not believe you, you mishapen fat old crone!