{"id":3852,"date":"2008-03-19T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/would-you-give-away-millions-to-a-stranger\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:45:00","slug":"would-you-give-away-millions-to-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/would-you-give-away-millions-to-a-stranger.html","title":{"rendered":"Would You Give Away Millions To A Stranger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I doubt that anyone reading this would transfer millions of dollars to someone they did not know, for any reason. Yet people must fall for these scams, since otherwise they wouldn\u2019t keep occurring, would they? Please use your critical thinking skills. If the person sending this were really in the situation described, and was able to transfer money to you, why would they need your help? It doesn\u2019t make sense, because it isn\u2019t real. It is a scam, a hoax, so please don\u2019t fall for it?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\u2014<\/div>\n<p>Dr Mrs Fareeza Al-Karbouli<br>House 922,Halal-Babel<br>Masbah,Baghdad,<br>Rep. of Iraq<\/p>\n<p>Hello dear,<\/p>\n<p>PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP<\/p>\n<p>I wish to apologize for any inconveniences this proposal may cause you<br>as we have never met or known each other before.I know this will surely<br>come to you as a big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>I am Mrs Fareeza Al-Karbouli,an Iraqi National from the northen<br>Kurdish town of Qaradagh.I am the wife of Dr Jamal Al Karbouly,formerly<br>Consultant and Principal Accountant with Al-Bayji oil refinery, situated<br>125 miles (200km)north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of<br>seven million five hundred thousand US dollars(US$7.5M) which my late<br>husband deposited with a finance and security company in Europe.Due to<br>the political crisis in my country,I am unable to secure entry visa to<br>travel to Europe to collect the funds.This is why I am soliciting for<br>your help to transfer the funds to your custody,until I can come and<br>meet you in your country.I intend using the funds for investment<br>purposes in your country.<\/p>\n<p>I will offer you 25% of the funds as commission for your assistance.70%<br>of the money is for me, whereas 5% of it shall be used to take care<br>of overall expenses incured in the course of the transaction.Though<br>there are still rooms for more negotiations on this.<\/p>\n<p>I am expecting your urgent response to enable me furnish you with<br>details and all the relevant documents covering the lodgement of the<br>funds.I will equally issue a Power of attorney on your behalf, empowering<br>you to receive the funds on my behalf as the trustee.<\/p>\n<p>For security reasons,you should reply to my alternative<br>email:mrsfarza900@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>Please treat with utmost urgency and confidentiality.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mrs Fareeza Al-Karbouli<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6323559819759605184?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt that anyone reading this would transfer millions of dollars to someone they did not know, for any reason. Yet people must fall for these scams, since otherwise they wouldn\u2019t keep occurring, would they? Please use your critical thinking skills. If the person sending this were really in the situation described, and was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Would You Give Away Millions To A Stranger?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I doubt that anyone reading this would transfer millions of dollars to someone they did not know, for any reason. 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