# Helping a poor widow **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649 "2012-09-14T01:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/1 "2012-09-14T01:04:05Z")
I just received (in my spam file) this missive from a poor widow of a passenger from flight 447 Air France crash. Psssssh! Wanna play? Go fer it!:D:D:D:D:D > [@](#): > > My Dearest One, > > Greetings and peace be upon you as you read this message,i know this > letter will come to you as a huge surprise,but I implore you to take the > time to go through it carefully as the > decision you make will go a long way to facilitate my peaceful repose and > the manifestation of my last wish.I am MRS.EVELYN JONES an ageing widow of > 77 years old suffering from long time chronic organ failure resulting from > terminal cancer which has left me paralyzed and bedridden for the past > four {4} years. > > I was recently notified of my late husband KENNETH JONES who died in the > Air France Flight 447 crash.He had an outstanding and unclaimed cash > deposit account worth the sum of US$24,800,000.00 whose deposit > documents bears my name as the next of kin and is presently facing > danger of being declared a dormant account and returned to the > government treasury. > > My present state of health does not permit me to take any direct action > here and i do not wish to have the sweat of my late husband end up in the > hands of undeserving government officials.I need a very honest and GOD > fearing Christian who i can make the executor of my WILL and have this > unclaimed funds released to,so it could be used for charity works.My > greatest wish is to keep this FUNDS secured and be used for charity > works.I choose you from the several email contacts presented to me by the > nursing staffs and after honest PRAYERS to the LORD to bring me a helper > and i decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to > handle these trust FUNDS in good faith before anything happens to me. > > I am in urgent need of your cooperation and I believe a divine force is > driving me to contact you for this noble task,you must not fail me and > the millions of the poor people in > our today’s WORLD.This is my legitimate inheritance and NOT stolen money > and there are no dangers involved as all is 100% RISK FREE with concrete > legal proof. > > Please if you would be able to cooperate with me as my legally appointed > executor of my last WILL and TESTAMENT and ensure my inheritance is put > to good use benefiting the less > privileged and victims of natural disasters around the globe. > Yours Sincerely, > > MRS.EVELYN JONES. > E-mail:{ [evelynjones@superposta.com](mailto:evelynjones@superposta.com) } ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/2 "2012-09-14T02:08:18Z")
A couple of times (before I realized that doing this just confirmed that the email address was live and monitored by a real person) I wrote back and said that I’d be more than happy to take the money, as I’ve always wanted to set up an abortion clinic in (either her city, or a random third world city) where underprivileged women could get safe, free abortions. Oddly enough, I never got replies from those particular spammers, I just got more spam (because of the active email account thing). Do you think I was too obvious? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/3 "2012-09-14T03:34:47Z")
Damn. I really want to help this poor woman, but unfortunately, I am not a God-fearing Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/4 "2012-09-14T03:38:24Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > A couple of times (before I realized that doing this just confirmed that the email address was live and monitored by a real person) I wrote back and said that I’d be more than happy to take the money, as I’ve always wanted to set up an abortion clinic in (either her city, or a random third world city) where underprivileged women could get safe, free abortions. > > Oddly enough, I never got replies from those particular spammers, I just got more spam (because of the active email account thing). Do you think I was too obvious? As long as you could make abortions for the spammer retrospective. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/5 "2012-09-14T04:34:24Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Damn. I really want to help this poor woman, but unfortunately, I am not a God-fearing Christian. I would have responded with “I’d love to help you, but I am an atheist. I believe the Westboro Baptist Church would be able to help you; here is their info!” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/6 "2012-09-14T05:53:04Z")
Amazingly well-written and good grammatical English (relatively speaking) for these sort of things. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-poor-widow/634649/7 "2012-09-14T05:53:05Z")
So that means y’all aren’t going to be sending me the money? Dang. I gotta make some phone calls and cancel some shit.