Imagine my surprise, after Benazir Bhutto attacked me from the grave, when I received this email from Bilawal Zardari. This one immediately lays claim to being the second-best money-scam spam ever:
Hello,I want to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation to you for your support during the hour of need. The enemy gave us a huge blow when they took the life of my dear mother. As a matter of fact, I do not know you personally except your contact details I got from her address book but I just have to pass on my sincere appreciation, also for the feat we were able to record at the last elections despite her absence as she was the party leader until her brutal assassination. The victory was to all Pakistanis as it clearly demonstrated their commitment to the course she stood and died for.
Losing her is the hardest thing I've been through all my life, but knowing that she was a hero to many people does comfort me. I know she would appreciate what everyone did for her. All we just crave for now is for her killing be probed by an international team under the United Nations. It is the only hope we have of getting the possible plotters of her murder properly investigated. Only this would help us convince our supporters that there was some element of collusion between her murderers and agents of President Musharaf who were determined to get rid of her.
While acknowledging receipt of this correspondence please do advise if you are capable of taking custody of some funds she deposited with a private vault in the Netherlands till I find a safe way to receive it here.
Very sincerely,
Bilawal Zardari.
(Co-Chairman, PPP)
www.ppp.org.pk
A standard scam, but oh, the irony of the supposed source.
Of course if there was any truth to this scam, Bilawal should be paying for his own security while attending Oxford, since his security is costing the British People a million pounds or nearly 2 million US Dollars each year.
Sounds like the old Nigerian barrister. On the other hand with the party in the hands of her husband, Mr. Ten Per Cent, I'm not surprised. Has the kid visited Pakistan, his future fief, yet?
They want the world to take him seriously.
From letter: your contact details I got from her address book
I bet she had a big address book. It used to be chain letters in the slow mail box, now it's e-mail, but the scams remain the same...
Robert Spencer is a rich guy:)
Robert Spencer is a rich guy:)
"Sounds like the old Nigerian barrister"
Thanks, Shawmut - just enough to jog my memory back to "The Barrister Jubril Project".
Some fun can be had (with sufficient free time):
See
http://www.norlos.com/barrister/archives/cat_body_by_jake.html
and
http://www.norlos.com/barrister/archives/cat_the_one_that_started_it_all.html
as examples (enjoy, all)
Looks like the Bhuttos can't figure out whether you are friend or foe. Tell him to pay up - or else, that cash will go to other Jihadi forces.
tell him to take the money and invest in bull futures.
tell him to take the money and invest in bull futures.
Posted by: pulsar182
Nah ... looks as if they have enough BULL already!