is this for real?

Question

i got the following message from an unknown sender:
Dear Beloved,
My name is Mrs Teressa Sutton, a Briton by origin, but married to an American, Mr James Sutton who was murdered by unknown assailants last year in Wales.

My husband worked with Intel Limited in England as a manager for a long time before he was appointed adviser to the Prime Minister of England on Co-operation and integration with africa, a post he held until he was brutally murdered by the suspected rival political parties. We were married for eleven years without a child.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 15 million dollars, this fund(fiftenn million dollars) is in a bank here in Europe. Presently this money is still with the Financial Institution.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I might not last for the next eight
months due to an inflammation of my liver. This has led to my being on 24 hours intensive care,in a private clinic here in England. I a tired of living like this.

Answer 1

Yea its a for real hoax! These letters have been out for years in different forms, Its a scam to get you to provide them with an account number in the hopes that you will have money in it! The American government cant do anything to stop it because it isnt in their jurisdiction! You must be new to the net.......

Answer 2

Okay first off, if you have 15 milliion dollars, that's plenty for a liver transplant. Second, why would they send the email to YOU, a random person that they don't know. It's oviously fake. I've gotten tons of these types of emails.

Answer 3

No...if you look at the spelling some of it is incorrect. This is a scam email possibly from Nigeria used to get you to give up your personal information about you. I know about this because my sister had been receiving these messages saying that John Aguirre and his family have passed away in a car accident. He was an owner of an oil company in Nigeria and he left 16 million dollars in his bank account. They wanted her to give them her phone number along with the social security number to them so they came contact her. So we had sent the message to my aunt and she sent it to her lawyer and her lawyer told us all not to answer any of those scam emails used to give up personal information about yourself so they can use it to scam you. Her lawyer also said if it was true they would of made the effort to contact you in person about the situation not by email. As far as I know my mom said we do have a person by the name of Johnny in our family but she didn't know if he went by the name of John. My aunt said that there was no one in our family that went by John but there was someone whos name was Johnny. Not only has my sister been getting these messages but I have been getting them too except this time they have been using my last name with someone elses name in my family who they might think sounded familiar.

Answer 4

hahahaha. You got that too!

A new type of joke I suppose. The person who contacted me however, offered more money :P

And believe it or not. I emailed her back and she replayed!
But after that, never emailed her again (she said its dangerous and I could be in the danger zone because of this huge sum of money) . Oh well, common sense tells me this is bs, wont go in the details of why this is the case!

Answer 5

did she ask for your bank details so that she could get it into your bank account and you could transfer 80% to hers?
there are a lot of e mails like this usually the money is in africa or some other hard to believe country its a scam DO NOT GIVE HER YOUR BANK DETAILS

Answer 6

No it is not real. My favorite email of this type was one where they attached a picture of a chest of gold coins...

Answer 7

..if it was true, then Mrs Teressa Sutton wouldn't misspell so many words...

Answer 8

Of course not. It's a variation of the Nigerian scam.

Answer 9

THis is nothing but a joke. I suggest you report spam.

Answer 10

Report it to the FBI at one of these two sites (your choice)

https://tips.fbi.gov/

http://www.ic3.gov/