COMPASSION HESITATES HERE...

For the last week I had been in short communications with a woman who sounded that she was sincere…aha!

I will allow all of you to be the judge, although you should know I have already asked more knowledgeable people in these matters than, well, that’s the rest of the world I hear you saying…Any-who, I have decided to publish the correspondence, omitting all the names involved including my own real one…well, actually I only responded once… Here’s her message to me via the Facebook messaging:

• August 19

7:11am
Hello beloved
I'm Mrs. XXXXX XXXXXXXX suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia. I was married to Mr. XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX a Malaysia base shipping tycoon. My husband died after a protracted illness on October 7th, 2010, as our life as couple only lasted for 29years without a child. When my husband was alive, he invested in stock the sum of Forty Million United States dollars ($40,000,000.00), which he derived from his vast investment in capital market with a Security Company here in Malaysia and named me as the sole beneficiary of this trust funds upon his demise (all records are kept with my family lawyer). Just yesterday, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live, due to the Leukemia problems that I have been suffering from. With this hard reality that has befallen me, i have decided to donate this funds to you before i pass on, and I want you to use the funds to establish a charity Foundation in my family name.
There are other details I cannot divulge right now, because i do not know how secure Facebook can be, Hence i advise that you send me your private E-mail address, so that i can give you a complete details on how to go about this noble task. Hoping to hear from you soon.
With Love,
Mrs. XXXX XXXXXXXX.
• Thursday
6:23am
Please take care XXXXX, and thank you so much for the offer, but you must have family that will do it as you wish. (My only communication to her)
• Today

Dear Beloved Tobi. (I am using my alias here, she wrote my actual name)
Thank you for your love and care shown to me in your email to me above, and thus i am indeed very happy to know that my heart lead me to the right person, even when i know that i haven't meet you before and sincerely do not know you from adam. I personally did sent you my previous email, because I do not have any child to inherit my late husband wealth, and also because of the fact that, my late husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons that will misuse and invest the money into ill perceived ventures if willed to them, instead of helping the poor in a worthy manner.
So I want you to please Contact my family lawyer Barrister XXXXXXXXXX (XXXXXX@gmail.com) and tell him that I have willed the funds to you by quoting my personal reference number Law/chamber/solicitor/rt/cfd/WILL/my/983/7520212, been that I have yesterday authorized him to issue a Letter of Authority in your favor to the Security Company handling the stocks as soon as you contact him. He will also endorse my WILL, where you will be named as the sole beneficiary of the trust funds. Please ensure to provide to him, all that he may require to finalize the arrangement, and make sure you maintain a confidential and cordial relationship with him even in my absence, because he is a very trust worthy and caring person.

My happiness today is that, my life is worthy of emulation and I want you to do the same too, by been kind hearted all through your life. Please, remember to put me in your daily prayers, because it is what i needs the most right now.

With Love,
Mrs. XXXXX XXXXXXX

Now not to sound heartless, but does any of this ring a bell with any of you as being a wee bit familiar?
A too good to be true for you, of course not for her!
Well, Hubby being a retired law enforcement officer I read it all to him and he suggested I call our local office involved with detecting fraud here, and so I did, and they concurred with my gut feeling that it was sure enough, a CON.
And so I am posting this here and on Facebook to hopefully make sure that no one gives away their personal info and ends up with all their accounts emptied. For that is what these sweeties do!

The local authorities have been notified, but it is still a job for Interpol.
So there is nothing more that I can do.
Most lose their small fortunes before they know exactly what is going on, and sad tales have been told about some innocents even insisting it is their monies and so they can do whatever they want with it!
Sadly, they lose all their savings too.

So as much as I care about the world and all the horrors in it we must all be weary when we hear from COMPLETE STRANGERS their tales of woe…

On that trying hard to help in this world that I love so much, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to count your blessings and share those overages, but not with unknowns, ha, and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tonight I felt that I would give us all a bit of a break from hurricane ISAAC now bounding horrifically down on New Orleans on the Eve of Katrina’s seventh anniversary!
Please all of you in the northern Gulf States should know though I said we were taking a break our prayers and thoughts are with you tonight and always!