South African Generosity

The following e-mail somehow made it past my spam filter into my inbox:

May God Bless You As You Read And Reply.

May our good Lord bless your going out and coming in and provide all your
needs through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.

Dear in Christ,

I am Rev Father Emmanuel Aka, I am writing you this mail as God has
directed me after 1 week fasting and prayers. Be informed that i went for
a medical check up, and my doctor called me personally that i will not
last for the next 2 weeks due to my heart illness. And i know i will die,
of which i have prayed and ask God for a divine favour. I have decided to
donate the sum of $1,500,000 USD for a Church or an individual as I do
not have a child to inherit it and it’s better I do not die leaving the
money here without it reaching to the poor and the less-privileged ones in
the society, I have been using some of this fund in God’s work in my
country here and have giving some to the mother less here so i will like
this remaining one to reach the poor once and less-privileged in other
society . As soon as I receive your reply I shall tell my bank to transfer
the money to you.

Information’s Required from you are:

Your Full Name(…………………….. )

Your Direct Tel & Fax N°:(………………….,)

Your Home & Office addresses(…………………………)

Your Bank Account (………………)

With these information’s, I will forward them to the Bank for immediately
transferring of the Funds to your Position. Please always pray for me and
let God give me more Good health to stay in this World.
EMAIL ME: [email protected]

Best Regards,
Rev Father Emmanuel Aka.

The e-mail address provided is a South African one. I know some people in South Africa, and there are plenty of issues and needs that could be addressed there with a million and a half US dollars. Why send money from a part of the world which has so many needs? Perhaps the thinking is that by injecting some extra spending money into the US economy it will help the whole world, including South Africa?

In case anyone doesn’t get my sense of humor, I’ve written the above in jest. This is a hoax, a scam. Delete it, or better yet, write to the person and ask him to send a few hundred dollars to your P.O. Box just as a token of good faith, before you give him your personal information.

One last thing. I’ll bet “Aka” in this case really does indicate that this “Reverend Father” also has other aliases…