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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "Mary Parker" <mary_parker_200@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:44:24 -0500
Subject: Doing the lord's will........
Dear Beloved in Christ,
Please bear with me for sending you this just in case you are offended by it
as I know we don't know each. It's my belief that I am doing the lord's
bidding and what is truly right in his eyes and that is what gives me the
courage to send this email to a total stranger like you. Before I start, I
will need to warn you that this email might contain the most shocking and
unbelievable piece of news you have ever had in your entire life, but I
trust the lord to give you enough faith and insight to see the sincerity in
my heart.
It is by the grace of God that I received Christ, having known the truth; I
had no choice than to do what is lawful and just in the sight of God for
eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of God & His Mercies and
glory upon my life.
I am Mrs. Mary Parker, the wife of Mr. Robert Parker, my husband was an
expatriate Contractor with Chevron/Texaco in Kenya for twenty years before
he died in the year 2003. We were married for ten years without a child. My
Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before
his death we both got born-again and dedicated Christians. Since his death I
decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the
Bible is strongly against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the
sum of US$7.5 Million (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) in
a 4 year one-time fixed deposit account with a Bank in Europe. Presently,
this money(with accrued interest) is still with the Bank and the management
just wrote me as the next of Kin/beneficiary to the account that it has
become DORMANT since no transaction has been operated on it since the
completion of the 4 years and if I, as the beneficiary of the funds, do not
re-activate the account; the funds will be CONFISCATED or I rather issue a
letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf because of my
condition(note that you need to activate this account) as I can not come
over. Presently, I'm in a hospital in Kenya(I chose to remain here since I
will die closer to nature and the lord) where I have been undergoing
treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my
doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is my last
wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations anywhere in the
World that might be in need of it. I have already donated most of our wealth
here in Kenya to our local church and our house after my death to an
orphanage here in Kinshasha. They are all totalling almost 800,000 USD.
Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my
illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting futher this
responsibility to any one of them any more.
I feel you might still be in sin and not so committed to the good lord or
you are not even a christian but today, this moment as you read this, open
your heart as this moment shall become the turning point in your life. Why
would a total stranger like me be sending you this, be telling you this and
be offering this much. Beloved, to be sincere with you, I HAVE NO IDEA
except, that I know that the lord's way are not our ways. I have come to
conclude that's it's divine. Who are we to question him anyway as just by
his breath he gave us life, so much...... Open your heart and see the beauty
of his plans, his intentions, his wish for the world then it will become
very clear to you why at this time I am dying and why at the same time you
are chosen for this, you other than someone else. It's all part of the big
picture of the kingdom that is to come. Tha all his followers will spend
forever............
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand-in as the beneficiary
and collect the Funds from the Bank. I want a person that is God-fearing who
will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the
word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible
made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this
decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my
husbands’ relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my husbands’ hard
earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don’t want a situation where
this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking
this bold decision. I am not afraid of death since I know where I am going
to. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. {Exodus14 VS14}
says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I will not
communicate with you by phone in this regard because of my soundless voice
and presence of my husbands’ relatives around me always. I don’t want them
to know about this development as I know all they are interested in is my
husband wealth and not my health.
With God all things are possible.
Beloved one, please send all replies to my other email:
mary.parker100@yahoo.com
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Mary Parker
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