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Have you received an email from "Mrs Mabel Shinider" telling you how she and her late husband "were without child" and now she is dying of Cardiac surgery for Parkinsons Disease and Rheumatic heart disease? (Has "she" missed any diseases?) The email, filled with endless religious references, gushing about her love for God and Jesus, but ultimately tells you "I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches, Help For Local Hurricane Victims and the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. ". Isn't it nice that she randomly selected you, half a world away, to take her money before she dies, and so you can put it to good use (usually helping orphans, the homeless and handicapped) It is nothing but a scam, along with a healthy dose of gibberish, spelling errors, terrible gram, syntax and punctuation, not exactly befitting an extremely wealthy person, let alone a godly one.
Of course, it is a scam. Don't reply to it. Pray for the scammers forgiveness, perhaps, or even better, for them to get hit by a large bus, but certainly don't pity them or contact them.
If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
From: Mrs Mabel Shinider
Westeinde Ziekenhuis
Netherland.
Subject: Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein
Dear Beloved in Christ,
I am the above named person but now undergoing medical treatment in Netherland.I know you will definitely take this as a deceptive email,because of the swindle news we hear everyday and now it happens am from Netherlands where it seems to happen more often.Let me first of all inform you, i got your e.mail id from a mail directory and decided to e.mail you for a permission to go ahead.
I am Mrs Mabel Shinider from Netherlands.I am married to Dr.Patrick Shinider who worked with Chevron/Texaco in Nigeria for twenty years before he died in the year 2003.We were married for twenty-seven years without a child,He died during one of the riots in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths of the region before his death we were both born again christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 9.8 million dollars (Nine Million eight hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with a Security Company in Nigeria. Presently this money is still with the Security Company and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.
I am presently with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Cardiac surgery for Parkinsons Disease and Rheumatic heart disease, I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my last wish to see that this money is invested and at the end of every year distributed among charity organisation.
I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches,Help For Local Hurricane Victims and 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 know that there are alot of poor people suffering from different kind of disease and nobody to come to their aid.With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Security Company.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund.You will be entitled to 10% of every profit you make in a year.
Lastly, I want you to be praying for me as regards my entire life and my health because I have come to find out since my spiritual birth lately that wealth acquisition without Jesus Christ in one's life is vanity upon vanity. If you have to die says the Lord, keep fit and I will give you the crown of life. May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.
Endeavour to use it as Faith of Donation
Yours in Christ,
Mrs Mabel Shinider
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