From: "Rebekka Issah" <test@allanogilvie.com>
Reply: issah.rebekah@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:38:14 +0200
Subject: Please i need your help
Hello,
I am Mrs. Rebekah Issah, a Yemen woman. I desire to relocate to your country due to the prolonged civil unrest/war in Yemen, as well as the daily life threatening attacks by al-Qaeda militants. I have already lost my family, my husband, son and daughter to the cold hands of death during an attack targeted at our home on March 23, 2019, to end our family. I was not around during the cross fire. I was at the hospital for check up when the attacked our home killing my beloved husband, son and daughter and setting the house ablaze. I am in tears writing you this mail. He (my late husband) was a very successful contractor in the oil city of Yemen, and was privately dealing on gold dust and bars before his untimely death. Expectedly, he left behind some reasonable amount of money, which I desire to invest in the Real Estate sector, Travel & Tourism, Hotel Management and other interesting sectors in your country.
As you may or may not know, the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union have made it nearly impossible to successfully operate any type of investment here in Yemen or to even transfer money from here to other parts of the world. For this reason, I am contacting you in great confidence with the hope that you could help me get this money into your country for investment purposes:
Please I would like to know how convenient it might be for you to assist me in this way. The entire capital at my disposal is Nine Million Euro. I secretly locked up the money in a trunk box and deposited it with the Red Cross here in Sanaa. My sincere intention in writing you is to plead with you to kindly accept the money box. This is because we cannot do any bank transfers from here following the war. These are the major issues of concern to me now. I will give you 20% of the total money as your benefit for helping me.
I have to take this chance because I have no other alternative but to trust somebody. I cannot risk my life here to avoid an end to my family lineage. As a woman since my husband, son and daughter is dead. I deserves a decent life in a peaceful environment, I will relocate to your country and invest the money in accordance with law, your advice and support; we can work together and achieve.
I anticipate your positive response and on receipt of your information I will provide you with further details.
Yours faithfully,
Rebekah Issah.
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I just received the same e-mail though they had translated it into Malay because of my current location of Singapore. I actually had to translate it back to English to figure out what it said.
Thanks for the comment – Some scammers are getting very sophisticated – automatic language detection is a new one on me, but not surprising. If you still have the Malay Email, please post it in the comments. It helps if anyone is searching for a Malay match.