Anyone Else Get the Fake Email from Paul???

joe klaus · Post by **joe klaus** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:31 am

The following email came to me from someone calling himself Paul Mortenson. This is a hoot. Anyone that knows Paul knows he wouldn't send this in a thousand years. These scam artists are always trying something new. By the way, in case anyone could possibly misunderstand, this is not meant to be critical of Paul in any imaginable way. The email to me was as follows:
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Good-Day,
How are you doing today? I am so sorry I wasn't able to inform you about my trip to England to visit my ill cousin today,the news came to me since last week and i had to be there soon enough. I am at present in NHS London with my ill cousin,so I decided to write you from a nearest business depot.She was diagnosed with a critical uterine fibroid. X-ray and scan shows that her condition is deteriorating because the fibroid has done a lot of damages to her abdominal area and an emergency hysterectomy surgery must be carried-out to save her life.I am deeply sorry for not writing or calling you before leaving.
Besides i told no one before i left, the news of her illness arrived to me as an emergency and that she needs family support to keep her going.
I had little time to prepare or even to inform people about my trip, I hope you understand my plight and pardon me.
Unfortunately,The money the doctor asked for was more than what i planned for,PLEASE PLEASE AND PLEASE,I will like you to please assist me with a soft loan of $1980 urgently to sort-out my Cousin's bills or any fund you can assiste me with.The hospital management is demanding for a deposit before they can invite a surgeon from Malaysia to carry out the surgery but she has been place on a temporary medical care prior the time we make the deposit with the money i gave them.I traveled with little money because I never expected things to be the way it is right now.
I will appreciate whatever you can afford, I will refund the money back to you as soon as i return, let me know if you can be of any help?
What scares me the most is that she is going through a lot of pain at the moment and the doctor advice that, it is necessary that the tumor is operated soon to avoid anything from going wrong?
A friend of mine just sent me $900(Nine hundred US dollars) through western union but this is little to what i am looking for !
I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with, since I don't know your financial status at the moment.. I'll pay back as soon as I return with all the money you spent.
I did not take along my phone. So it is currently switched off as I was unable to roam it with the phone company because of the time frame I had to be here.
This is my information that i will like you to help me to send the money to through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER

Paul Mortenson
42 Hampstead Road,
London,
NW1 7AW
United Kingdom

I will make sure i refund the money back to you with the western union money charges ..
so kindly e-mail me promptly and when I get back I will give you a call.I'll be pleased to read from you soon regarding my request..
Thanks for your help..

Post by **john elder** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:56 am

yes...he's been taken over by some offshore entity

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:10 pm

Pleased to have been on the list as well . . . never knew his cousin . . . liked him well enough; hope he comes back OK.

keebranch · Post by **keebranch** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:55 pm

scam...
My wife's hotmail account got jacked and the scammer told the same tale.

Les

Post by **Brian F.** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:10 pm

I didn't know I got one too until just now but my Roadrunner account directed the message to junk mail.