Friday, March 18, 2011

Funny dating Scam Email

Hi guys,
I recieved this romantic sort Email a little while ago from some god know what wierd person. I can now be 100% certain it must be a scam of some sort.

This is the original Email this person send me.

Hello Dear, My name is Fatima, i am a beautiful and romantic young girl i was impressed when i saw your profile on and will like to establish a long lasting relationship with you. In addition,i will like you to reply me. This is because i don't know the possibilities of remaining in forum for a long time. please If you are interested in knowing more about me, and for me to send you some pictures of mine, Thanks waiting to hear from you . With all my love, Miss Fatima You can send me an email ok; missfatimamk13@yahoo.de

The only thing that was going through my head was "What the hell?" This is especially considering the fact, I "DIDN'T JOIN ANY DATING SITE" So, I send an email back saying

I am not the comittment type

PS: What profile? I didn't join any dating site

Then this person send me this Email and two photos as attachment with it


Hello Dearest,
Thanks for your mail, i really appreciate it so much.
I am excited to hear from you, you are such a nice person, i always dream to meet some one like you, as for that reason i will never hide anything from you.I am alright only that life has not been easy for me, more over my name is Miss Fatima Dim Deng, i am from Sudan by Nationality, my late parents are Dr. and Mrs Dominic Dim Deng. My father Dr.Dominic Dim Deng was the South Sudan Affairs and defense minister.

My parents were among with other 19 military officials have been killed as result of a plane crash between Wau and Juba,Sudan in  Friday, May 2, 2008, After the burial of my late parents life becomes so difficult for me as the only child to my parents, my uncle conspired  and sold  my father's properties to a Chinese Expatriate, left nothing for me to survive with, explaining to me that as tradition demand, as a female issue i don't have any right to my father's properties, i tried to stand up for my right which he treating to kill me, that is the reason i find my way and run away from my country, i am residing in Senegal under the International federation of Red Cross Society. although life is not easy here.
i forgot to tell you my age in my last mail, i am  24 years old,  am student of Accounting in the university before the incident, but i could not finish up my education, i was in 2rd year, i want to become an economics  as  profession.

We have the general over sea in the camp, he takes care of our welfare in the camp here, he is Pastor of (The Light of God Gospel Mission) here in the Dakar, his name is Reverend  EJION, it was through his help that i could be able to contact you with his computer, he has a computer in his office that was were i used to send you mails. In case you want to call me, you can call me through his phone number, tell him that you want to speak with me, he will send for me at the Hostel to come and answer your call, he is such a nice man, always good to people, this is his phone number: 00221776715216 OR 00221766679838
There is some thing i want us to talk about, i know that is very difficult to get some one that is honest and sincere, this issue i am telling you is some thing i will not like you to review to any body, i am telling you this due to the trust i have seen in you, i feel your honest and understanding person, when my parents were alive they never hide anything from me as the only child.

After the death of my parent i was able to get my late father's Deposit Certificate were he Deposited his money, my uncle later got to know about it, that was his reason he was threatening me so that he could be able to claim the money. It contains £2.8 million British pounds  (two Million eight  Hundred Thousand pounds). and as the only child i am the next of kin,  i am giving you all this information due to the trust I have deposed on you. When escaping out of my country i also took along with me my late father's Deposit Certificate too.

Here you can find out about my father death;
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article26975
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7380412.stm

at this moment i want to come out of this camp to live my normal life as a woman, i want you to help me so that i could be able to get this money, i have already contacted the bank and i found out and i was also informed by the bank that my father have an agreement with the bank that the money should be release to me when i get matured or as the case may be with an appointed trustee who could stand on my behalf to help me get the money.
I have kept this as a secret, even Reverend EJION does not know about it, but i will tell him as soon as you promise to help me out and i also want you to keep it to yourself too.
i want to go back to the hostel in few minutes from now we are going to have our three hours prayers, i will give you the information's of the bank in my next mail, once again thank you and God bless,waiting to hear from you soon.


and send me this two photos of this very hot girl, which this person claim to be him/herself





Now, I don't know about you. But this definitly seem like a scam to me.'

(Although the girl in that photo is kind of hot. Maybe it is the photo of a model taken off some magazine.  )

The second Email this person sent me frequently reminded me of the studying of male sexual desire and how fairy tale frequently reflect it, which is why in stories such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty the victim is always a weak, helpless and innocent victim and is 100% knock out hot. Well, this story reminded me of it completly. This person presented photos of a hot girl, (Score on the knock out hot part) protray him/her self as a weak, helpless and innocent victim (socre again on that part) and protray him/herself as the daughter of a high ranking official (score on that part again) and within this story that the person in this story presented, it make it seem like a situation where me the reader is in a position to play the prince charming or knight in shinning armor protecting the beautiful princess (once again score.)

What this further reminded me is Psychologist Philip C MacGraw's concept of fix believe, which is that sometime when a person believe or want to believe in something badly enough, they will refuse anything that contradict their believe, just to be able to continue to believe in what they want to believe in and they would also look for example and construct opinion that can be use in favor of this idea. Fix believe usually come into existence due to some form of reason e.g. want to be the knight in shinng armor protecting a madem in destress in a fairytale.

It also kind of reminded me of how western conservative ideology frequently believe for the west to be a male and the none west to be a female, considering the fact the girl in the photo is black, not white. It so play into the stereotype and its believe that a real woman is suppose to be a weak, helpless and innocent victim and those who are not like that are not real woman and a real woman is trust worthy and somebody who is not a real woman is not trust worthy. (At this stage, I am so glad I didn't grow up in a western family, especially not a western conservative family or I might just be conned my ass off.)

I don't know about you, but I think this person ahs done his/her homework and honestly, I think sooner or later, he/she is going to meet a conservative old man that is going to get con. I am just glad that isn't me.
But I have to say this girl...opps sorry...I mean this/these person/people (can either be a man or a woman) really know how to get to you.

Cheers

PS: Due to legal reason, if I am wrong about this been a scam. Then I apologise for what I say within this post right now. I am sorry.

Also, due to legal reason, if this person is been 100% honest, then I apologise for what I say within this post right now. I am sorry.

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