I just received a weird email...its fake riiight?

and the weird thing is that i am an athiest and that it was in my inbox and not in the bulk folder???

the email:

Hello Dear,

I have to thank God this moment for his direction as regards this
mission. God want me to complete this mission hence, I got your
contact, but I know you may be wondering how I got your contact email.
Actually when I heard from the doctor that my condition has become so
bad, I have to reach out for a Christian sister, it was through that
Christian sister that I ask to make a Discrete search from the Internet

for a God fearing person that will utilize his money the way I am going
to instruct, and even the sister that help me in this regard doesn't
know the purpose for which I intend to use it, and I want to believe
that you are a God fearing person, then it will be very easy to finish
this mission but if you are not lead in your spirit to go further
please decline from responding to this mail.

My name is Mrs. Mercy Miner, am 59 years old and was diagnosed of
cancer about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband
thus you can say am a dying woman, But My husband earn this funds
($1,500,000) but he died and left everything behind for me but Due to
my state of health my relatives are taking advantage of me and they
want to get hold of this money to use it for their selfish interest
which I know is ungodly rather than allow my relatives to use my
husband's hard earned funds ungodly, I have decided to Will the sum of
{$1,500,000 One million five hundred thousand dollars} to you for the
good work of the lord, and to help the motherless, less privileged and
also for the assistance of the widows

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls, due to the fact
that my relatives are around me and I have been restricted by my
doctor from taking telephone calls because I deserve all the rest I can
Get.
I want you to claim this fund from the bank, Presently, I have
informed my
lawyer about my decision in WILLINGthis fund to you and he promised to
give
you all the support needed to claim the money will prepare all the
paperwork
and fax them to you in your name as the beneficiary. Please when
you finally get this money use it to help the widows, less privilege,
Christians and the motherless babies.

Furthermore you will never have any problem with the law, as you will
only pay some amount to the government as tax and a minor percentage to
settle the bill of the bank and the major part you will use to bless
God's Children all over the world.

Kindly forward my lawyer your tel and fax number and tell him the
country you are from to enable him fax or email you the document to
claim this funds from the bank next week. And write my lawyer for more
details or you can also write me my email address is given below as
well as that of my lawyer, it is very important.

mercy.m@merseymail.com

Barrister Fergurson Ferdinard
Email: barristerferdinard@yahoo.co.uk

Remain Blessed
Mrs. Mercy Miner.

This is illegal "phishing" spam sent in order to get sympathy and money. Block this sender immediately. You can also block senders from outside the country you live in. I got several of these, up to 5-or more a day for a time. I reported them to the government (U.S.)

Look up illegal "phishing" government websites and download their email address to your mail box. Then forward all of this junk to them to catch the source. Most of them are coming from Africa or outside the U.S. They send your email address to a thousand others who will solicit in same or similar manners.

So block all mail from outside U.S. This stopped nearly all of mine. I get maybe 1 every 2-3 months now.

Nigerian scam. They're first trying to establish a line of communication with you. Anytime you get a friendly message from a person or company you don't know, it's a scam!

This is absolutely fake. I have received quite a few of these. The scenario always changes a little, but it is still the same. This doesn't even sound right at all.

Hell yea it is. I get them all the time. Sometimes I respond back to them cursing them out.



Dateline and 20/20 had specials on hoax emails like this.

Is there any reason to believe this? Do you know this person? Why would someone trust this much money to someone they have not met?

Con artists depend on other peoples greed.

Yes, it is definetly a fake !

oh no no no!

e-mails such as this arent trustworthy!

doubt is dangerous, if you dont trust it 1000000%, then dont follow it.

Yeah its a fake, just delete it and forget about it :)
Anyways a doctor wouldn't give out you information.
Good Luck!

Yes, its a hoax

Why would they lie? Call them immediately. Get the money to help the children!

drop this thing like a hot rock

This is a 419 scam, so named for the Nigerian law against fraud.

If you do this, they will clean out your bank account.

If you want to have fun, reply that talking to the lawyer is unnecessary and that she should forward you the bank name, routing number, and account number where the money currently is and you will have the money wired into your account.

You will never hear from them again.

Yes

What I have done for those types of e-mails is open a fake e-mail account, e-mail them back from that account, and mess with them. There is a website that is dedicated to messing with these scammers.

http://www.419eater.com/

They have a fake Western Union sheet that the scammers will most likely ask for. You can send them to Western Union a few times and get a laugh when they curse you and yours for scamming them.

Delete it, it's the old, old, old Nigerian scam, they even made a music video about how rich they are getting from stupid Americans who fall for the scam...it was number one for a long time, don't add yourself to the list. Remember the axiom: "If it sounds too good to be true...it is."