September 19, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
An Obama e-scam
A reader forwards over the remarkable merger of two noxious email trends: Tear-jerking scams aimed at getting your bank details; and viral emails about Barack Obama.
The ham-handed effort:
From: Sis Marge Kute
Date: September 18, 2008 2:27:52 PM CDT
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: hello
long awaited dream of martin Luther king has finally surfaced in the form of democratic presidential candidate senator barrack obama who will be going head to head with senator john McCain in the upcoming America presidential election it was the dream of my husband of blessed memory that someday a black presidential will surface in the form of an Africa America descendants,
My husband loved martin Luther kings life career as he pressed for equal treatment and improved circumstances for blacks , All his life I loved him for been a great African America that why i am entrusting you with my late husband heritage because I am a sick dying woman whom the doctors has confirmed that I have only one month to live on earth based on the diagnosis they was carried out on me with came out that i am having cancer of the born marrow and I have only one month to live on this earth for that I want to make one last dying wish of my late husband fascination
that's why I have instructed my family lawyer to instruct the bank to wire the family heritage into your designated bank account to help promote/support Sen. Barrack Obama campaign to be the next president of America, An africa American What a dream come true .As a proud dying woman whom will rest in the bosom of the lord knowing that the dream has manifested.
Please I need you to use this funds judiciously towards Obama campaign as the lord as directed me to do, I need you to call my lawyer as soon as possible before I join the bosom of the lord
Yours sister in Christ
Sis Marge Kute
By Ben Smith 10:27 AM
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