4-1-9 Internet Fraudsters generous offer to help Canterbury Earthquake Appeal

IN-BOX THIS MORNING:

Hello i am glad to know you, but God knows you better and he knows why he has directed me to you at this point in time so do not be afraid, this is a charity proposal from Mrs Ruth Faayu. I apologize if the contents in this mail are contrary to your moral ethics, which i feel may be of great disturbance to your personal life, but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal to the glory of the most High God. I am Mrs Ruth Faayu the wife of late David Faayu whom died, as a victim of the Haiti earthquake on,12 of january 2010. I have some Funds I want you to handle for me in God,s glory. I promise that this project will be carried under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law. If you are interested,Get back for more Information's Thank's Mrs, Ruth Faayu.

MY REPLY:

Thanks for your email Ruth,

It is pleasing to see that others follow Zeus ‘The Father of All Gods’ – all praise be to him.

Boy are you are in-luck - I also happen to be a moral reprobate!

Basically I fuck anything with two legs and have boozed and gambled away more than I care to think about.

I don’t have a dollar to my name and if I did I would put it on number eight in race six at Addington Raceway on Saturday night.

Thanks-be to Zeus for granting me forgiveness for my failings.

As chance would have it, where I live, Christchurch, recently also experienced an earthquake the same size as Haiti.

This happened just 12 days ago - but thanks to the all-powerful Zeus no one was killed.

I was in bed with a prostitute her mother & their dog when the quake occurred and was saved by diving-under their king-sized bed.

I also got out of the brothel without paying them!

Boy will the dog and the granny be pissed-off after what I made them do.

A true miracle but still there is a lot of damage to property in our region.

Anyway back to your heart-warming Charitable Proposal.

This damage to Christchurch property is estimated to be around 2 Billion U.S Dollars.

The Red Cross here in New Zealand have opened an appeal.

To save using-me as a middle-man here’s their bank account number: ASB account 12-3192-0006848-01.

Giving me your millions would only see them flittered away on hard-liquor, slow horses and prostitutes who specialise in BDSM and have a male dog as a pet.

The reference for your deposit is ‘Canterbury Earthquake Appeal’

Boy will The Red Cross be surprised when a stranger like you donates your $’s to the less-fortunate in our community and they will see me as some sort of a Kiwi hero!

I think it must be Zeus, the God of all Gods, that has bought us together.

I feel I am finally getting my life together thanks to your act of generosity.

This is the impetuous I need in my sorry life to get a proper house of my own, rather than living in a Salvation Army night-shelter.

The spark I need to get back together with my 3 ex-partners and reunite with my 13 children.

Many Many Thanks.

May Zeus look over you and your family.

Paul.

PS: I’m going to present this exchange to the Judge at my impending fraud trial - as evidence of my good character.

Gullible & Greedy Christians make easy targets for Scammers

"Please, pray for me to recover as your paryers will go a long way in uplifting my spirit".

"Before his death we were both born again Christians without a child"

"I would appreciate a partner who is GOD-FEARING & dedicated to join me in establishing this industry,you might find it neccesary to come down here & see things for youself"

"I only give all praises to God who made every thing to be like this, my father is gone, I can count you as my father if you wish to be a Daddy to me"

"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 husband's relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers"

"Now that God is about to call me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends"

Dear Beloved,

These statements, or similar, will be familiar to anyone with an email address.

Infact they are all cut & pasted from unsolicited emails I’ve received pitching the idea that I’m in line for a multi-million dollar bequest or, retain a percentage of a large financial deal, on the basis I reveal my bank account details.

As we know these are nothing but scams, most of which originate in Western & Southern Africa, particularly Nigeria which gave rise to the term "4-1-9 Fraud’ (after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes)

But, why do these African Scammers so consistently & overtly target ‘those of faith’?

The prevalent and on-going use of Christian innuendo in these ‘fishing’ emails, strongly indicates Scammers receive more success by targeting this market.

At first appraisal it would appear to be because Christians are more likely to be believe ‘down on their luck stories’ from some dubious stranger offering them unimaginable fortunes. Especially when that individual claims to share the same belief.

But, there could of course be other under-lying mitigations which have lead the Scammers to target Christians, as opposed to other sectors of the secular west.

May be, after literally millions of ‘trial & error’ attempts to perfect their pitch, the Scammers have undertaken,by default, a massive worldwide behavioral study, that’s unearthed the facts that:

-Christians are more greedy, and more likely to ‘take the bait’.

- Christians are more naïve, thus easier to fool.

- As outlined above, conclusively Christians believe all fellow Christians are by definition honest, again making them easy targets to fleece.

Apologists will claim in defence of these points that ‘Christians are simply more generous and philanthropic’ and those well practiced Scammers exploit this.

But this is not a known reputable Charity requesting funds for a good cause, here. This is an underhand ‘get rich’ scheme. The only common bond between the scammer and his target is a shared loved of a mutual deity, so this argument doesn’t hold water.

Besides, it wouldn’t take much for these enterprising & hungry Scammers to work-out the two biggest benefactors on the planet (Bill Gates, Warren Buffet) are both atheists!

This being the case, we would have also seen by now, scammers slanting their pitch towards the non-theists in richer countries.

This hasn’t been the case though, and the well practiced fraudsters know Christians from the west, make the best on-going targets.

Have a blessed day and hoping to hear from you soonest.

Yours in Christ.