They only send these emails because people fall for it. I am from New York and I live in Palm Beach County Florida so I must have bumped into Ruth Madoff at some point. Maybe I saw her at 7-11 getting a Slurpie or at Home Depot on Saturday before gardening … or maybe not.
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This email is new but without having to check with Ms. Madoff or actually responding, I can tell you it is a scam, and an old one at that. The basics are, we will send you money, $17M in this case, and once they have all your details at the last minute they ask you to send them money that they need for transfer fees or some last minute expense. Nothing huge, a few hundred, a few thousand … but hey, you are getting $17M so what is a few bucks. And that is it … that is all there is too it. They aren’t hacking into your accounts and they aren’t committing some elaborate scam, they are simply convincing you to wire them a few thousand dollars out of your pending millions.
I am on every spam email list in the world so I get them all (aren’t I lucky) and this is just one of many. I am not going to warn you not to respond because if you are reading this you know better. So here it is … my lucky day that Ruth Madoff wants to send me millions …
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Mrs. Ruth Madoff
West, Liverpool,
London.
My Great Compliments,
I’m Mrs. Ruth Madoff, 67, wife to Mr. Bernard L. Madoff, of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, who pleaded guilty to operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is worth up to $826 million, according to a document filed with a federal court on Friday 13th March 2009.
Just last week my husband pleading stealing billions from investment from his clients and he was ordered to jail Thursday 12th March 2009, after pleading guilty to all 11 criminal counts in one of Wall Street's biggest swindles.
Now the Federal investigators in the USA are working around the clock to freeze all my assets, fearing that I'm trying to flee the country which I have done shortly after my husband was sentenced, I have $93 million in my name beyond their reach.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is working with federal prosecutors in Manhattan to prepare a filing asking a judge to formally freeze all of my assets as soon as possible.
My husband deposited the sum of (USD$17.000.000.00 Million) in a Finance Firm in Europe some years ago in my name, I need you to collect this funds and distribute it to both of us since the Federal investigators are working around the clock to freeze all my assets. Meanwhile all documents related to transfer of this fund to your account is with me.
Presently, I’m in a hard out here in UK as the Federal investigators as well the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking for me to freeze my entire asset as well prosecute me like my husband.
Please reply back to me on this e-mail as I will like if you contact my attorney directly so that he will direct you on the way forward. Please due send to me all your contact details as I will like to speak with you before we commence on the transaction.
God bless you.
Best Regards,
Mrs. Ruth Madoff