Very strange letter recieved

ivfmummy

My husband got a very odd unsigned letter yesterday. Telling him god is going to shower him with riches beyond his wildest dreams. As they didn't get his name right, they don't know him. He was a bit spooked by it.

I told him it's probably a letter setting him up for some unknown relative to die soon leaving him a fortune and all we need to do is give our bank details and receive a fortune!

Has anyone else had this? I hope this is in the right place.

browneyedbazzi

I've seen similar things in the past (working in Trading Standards) and they are usually a precursor to a scam of some sort. Best to shred it and try to put it out of your mind as much as possible (although be a bit on your guard about anyone new approaching you or any offers for investment 'deals' etc).

PhylPho

OP: It's a variation on an old seaside resort set-up where you go into Madame Rosa's fortune telling tent and are told you're about to enjoy a financial windfall. Then you leave and stroll a few yards down the prom and a photographer with a monkey on his shoulder says he'll charge you two bob for taking your picture and that today only, that photo could win you five quid in the "official" Happy Holidaymaker Contest.

In view of the fortune teller's promise, you pays yer two bob, get bitten by the monkey, and never see it or your picture again. Worse: you're now seriously under-funded for that fish 'n chip supper for two because two-thirds of the budget has just been given to a monkey.

The letter you've received is merely Madame Rosa again and a man with a monkey who will be along soon.

This latest version does seem to be in need of some refinement though, because if God can't get your husband's name right, then His omniscience seems too faulty to rely on.

If you are contacted, and discover that God is not in His Heaven but operating out of a mailbox in Nigeria, then further grounds for suspicion may well exist.

mattyprice4004

^ Brilliant!

KevInChester

Like this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwLGYVrUn4 (Ashens)

ivfmummy

It wasn't like that, just a hand written letter. We may well receive one like that next!!

Thank you all for your replies.