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E-mail Scam: 'Elizabeth Taylor' Needs Your Help
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A new scam e-mail in the name of film legend Elizabeth Taylor offers respondents a chance to claim a portion of "9 million Pounds" of her money.
In the e-mail, "Lizzy Taylor" claims she is currently in a hospital in Hawaii "undergoing treatment for Alzbimer's [sic] disease battling with incurable heart condition, curvature of spine among others" and that doctors "have told me that I only have a few months to live."
"Taylor" says it is her "last wish" to see that nine million pounds of her money is "distributed to victims of the World."
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In the e-mail, "Taylor" says she is looking for someone to help distribute the nine million pounds to charity; in return, the respondent can keep 15 percent of the money for "expenses and efforts."
"Taylor" says she needs a reliable partner because when she trusted "relations and friends" in the past, she was "rewarded with deceipt [sic], betrayal, insincerity and wastage."
Fraud experts say that when people respond to these types of e-mails, they are typically asked to pay thousands of dollars in "processing fees" before they can collect on the big payout. The victims eventually discover the promised riches are a fraud.
Read the scam e-mail from "Elizabeth Taylor."
October 20, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (6)
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I received a similiar e-mail once from a guy/girl that said pretty much the same thing and indicated that he/she was terminal.
He/she asked for my bank account number so that he/she could deposit money into it. I shouldn't have responded, but couldn't help myself at the time, telling him I needed time to open a special account just for this. I never heard from him/her again.
Posted by: J Collins | Oct 24, 2006 8:20:34 AM
DEAR ELIZABETH I DONT WAUNT ANY OF YOUR MONEY I JUST NEED TO HELP IF I CAN PLEASE HAVE SOMEONE RESPOND A FAITH FULL OLD FRIEND WHO REMEMBERS YOUR GOOD WORKS GOD BLESS DONT GIVE UP THE FIGHT HANG ON OLD GIRL!
Posted by: HARRY MEEKER | Oct 26, 2006 4:06:46 AM
Ah, the old Nigerian scam has been revived! I just wish that the idiot who re-wrote it could have used good English to make it more 'believable'. I'd bet if someone traced the URL's where this message comes from, they'd find it originates either in Amsterdam or another favorite haunt of the Nigerians who generate these messages by the thousands.
Posted by: T Bell | Oct 26, 2006 4:21:20 PM
We got one from "caspar Weinberger"!
Posted by: Jon | Oct 26, 2006 11:31:54 PM
Dear Ms. Taylor, I'm on it already! I've had the same offer by these sick people using Ms. Oprah Winphrey's name. I requested a connection with the FBI with hopes of nabbing these people. My concern is that there are REAL FBI'S working diligently with people like us stationed at the right place at the right time!
Posted by: Mrs. ELois Clayton | Oct 28, 2006 11:34:32 AM
I like the way you think!
Posted by: ELois P. Clayton | Oct 28, 2006 11:36:15 AM
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