Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains

I added this as a comment to my post regarding 419 scams AKA Advance Fee Fraud scams, and then decided to make it into a post.  I just received this in my email a few minutes ago, but here is the Reader’s Digest version.  Poor Helen Dickson is a resident of the UK and needs your (my) help distributing her funds to charities.  Now this is a woman with a big heart!  Thinking of others during a personal crisis.  Amazing.  Here is the the letter from poor Helen…remember she needs your help! And, she is willing to overlook the huge 30% hit she’ll take on converting Euros to Dollars!  Without further elaboration, here is the letter from Helen (my new friend!):

YOUR NEW FRIEND: HELEN

Dear Blessed One,

Greetings to you blessed one!. As you read through my message, I do not want you to feel pity or sorry for me, for I believe someday,somehow,we will all surely die, this is about mine, and a last wish.

My name is Mrs helen Dickson a Citizen of the united kingdom, I am a 53years old woman, I am diagnosed of Cancer of the Larynx and it is terminal, medical science can not do anything for me at this stage. I believe in miracles because I believe in GOD, however I prefer to pass on at this stage since I am bed ridden and in constant pain.

Before this happened my business and concern for making money was all I lived for, I never really cared about other values in life. But since my present situation, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes. I have once donated some money to orphans in war ravaged Eritrea,Somalia,Sudan and some East European Countries.

Having known my condition I decided to entrust my last funds I have deposited in Europe 5,000,000.00EUROS ( FIVE MILLION EUROS ONLY) to either a philanthropic or devoted individual that will use his judgment to distribute the money to charity organizations and feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money with a total of 35% for your assistance also for any cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money to charity organizations. I have left the hospital and presently at home, I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live.

It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations,because I don’t have any child and my relatives and friends has plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of en trusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and distribute it amongst charity organizations. Since my health is retrogressing by the minute, you will have to send your POSTAL ADDRESS, CONTACT PHONE NUMBER AND FAX and a little details about yourself TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS -
hdickson1954@gmail.com because I got your email address from Chamber of Commerce of your country after a thorough search.

With the information, I will make arrangement to prepare the authorization through an Attorney for you to get possession of the Deposit. I will give you the name and contact of the FINANCIAL TRUSTEE AND SECURITIES HOUSE where the money was deposited,so you can claim the funds, Until I hear from you, I pray that this letter bring you and your family good tidings.

Looking forward to hearing from you soonest.

Regards,

Helen Dickson
hdickson1954@gmail.com

 

Hard to believe anyone can fall for this, but they do.  Here is the link to my original post:

http://ibamountainhomes.com/wordpress/big-canoe-real-estate/i-will-pay-full-pricesight-unseen/

Feel free to contribute your own comments to Helen.  I’ll be glad to forward them to her!  Also, feel free to submit your own scam letters.