Political scams

It seems the scammers have moved to a new technique - impersonating British politicians.

This arrived in my inbox today:

From: pathewitt_1991@comcast.net [mailto:pathewitt_1991@comcast.net]
Sent: 20 October 2007 10:35
Subject: Patricia Hewitt MP

Dear Friend,

I got your contact after a search for a person with whom I can entrust  with a charitable projects.

I am Patricia Hewitt, the last Secretary of State for Health here in UK before the present one Alan Johnston. I like to introduce a project that will get to do with charity in your country and any neighbouring country around you: Please let me know what your response will be to an  offer to receive charity investment funds in cash if you will understand the fact that I have my reputation and intergrity to protect as the  last Secretary of State for Health here in UK.

1. The said fund amounts to Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars  (US).
2. The said fund is in cash and will be make available to you in same state.
3.The fund is intended to be invested into any charity organisation through your agency in the said purposes within your country.
4. This transaction will result to you being paid a commission of 30% off the investment capital and the balance destributed to charity organisations of your choice or reinvested and the net income used for rehabilitating charity organisation in and around your country through your agency annually for the period of some time at least five years or above.
5.You must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and professionalism in the handling of this project and as a result of that and for security reasons to my reputation as the former Secretary of State for Health under her excellency Queen Elizabeth, I will not be able to always communicate with you but my la! wyer wi ll take up the processing on my behalf and get the funds processed and released to you without any delay.

I'm a person that has a very big heart for the less priviledge people which is one of my top priority which is to positively uses my office to affect the life of so many people which is why I am doing this. I am not in any way going to benefit from this transaction financially but I will be very happy if you will be sincere with me to handle this project with utmost sincerity and confidentiality and use the funds for the purpose which I have above explained to you.

Please respond urgently if you are interested so I can give to you the details of my lawyer and commence the transaction properly and please if you know you are not ready and trust worthy person, please don't reply this message.

You can check more about me out at http://www.patriciahewitt.labour.co.uk/ but the website is presently under mentainace due to the high rate of fraudulent activities but you can also check more about me out and google.co.uk and please do not try to contact me through any of my personal information you may lay your hand on the internet because all my phones are connected to the British House of Parliament data base and if the British government get to know about this funds, our effort to get the funds secured for the purpose of charitable investment plans will be jeopardise. But you can call me on any of my number you can get on the internet for normal greetings and do not try to introduce yourself or discuss this transaction but just call to make sure I'm trully what I tell you I am for you to be sure
that this transaction is free from scamers.

Please send your response to this E-mail: pathewitt1990@yahoo.co.uk

Sincerely.

Patricia Hewitt MP,
former Secretary of State for Health
233 Owen Walk,
London SE37 88AQ
http://www.patriciahewitt.labour.co.uk

Now, it may be that the former British cabinet minister has a Yahoo and Comcast email account, has lost any ability to spell or punctuate, has also lost their grip on English grammar and has decided to try to lure people into some financial shenanigans. But it seems unlikely.

I wonder why they chose her?

 

Comments

[Robert]

Might be it's real, and she is a scammer after all she is new labour.

[Doug Smith - Government Auctions]

Actually that's kind of a useless scam attempt because most people trust polititions less then the scammer who attempted this.

[Steve]

How about

Dear Friend,

GREETINGS FROM THE UK HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT

I am Diane Abbott. Elected to the House of Commons when I was elected in
the 1987 General Election; representing the London Constituency of Hackney
north and Stoke Newington, I was Britain's first Black woman MP. Under Her
Majesty, Queen Elizabeth here in UK, served on the Treasury Select
Committee of the House of Commons which is a committee that deals with
business and finance matters.

I got your contact info in your countrys national directory. Now,
kindly allow me introduce a project that has to do with charity in your
country and neighboring countries around you.

What is your opinion to an offer to receive charity investment funds in cash?
The said funds amount to Fourteen Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
(US) which will be made available to you, in this same state.
The funds are strictly intended for the purpose of the rehabilitation of
charity organizations in your country, through you but will be initiated
and supervised by my lawyer.

This transaction will result to you being paid a commission of 15% of the
investment capital and the balance, distributed to charity organizations
of your choice or reinvested and the net income, used for rehabilitating
charity organization in and around your country through your agency
annually for the period of five years or a little more.

You must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and
professionalism in the handling of this project. For security reasons as
regards my reputation, I will not be able to communicate regularly with
you; but my lawyer will take up the processing on my behalf and get these
funds processed and released to you without any delay.

I don't plan on benefiting anything from this project, but will be
absolutely fulfilled, if and only if you will remain sincere to me on the
handling of this project with utmost sincerity and confidentiality; and
eventually utilize the funds for the purpose which I have explained to you
above.

Please respond urgently if you are interested, so I can equip you with the
necessary details, along side my attorney's contact information, so as to
commence the transaction properly; on the other hand, if you are not,
please let your intentions be known or better still, Kindly relent from
replying this email.

You could get personal info. on me via the Parliament sites or on my
official website, but do not try to contact me via any personal
information you may lay your hands upon on the internet as almost all my
contact info are connected to the British House of Parliament data base
except the ones I personally sent to you; as I dont want our
effort, jeopardized.

If you receive a version of this email, which claims to be from Diane
Abbott and may not mention a "charitable" or "profitable project", ignore
immediately as it is not from me nor anyone connected to me.

Kindly send your response to dianeabbott54@live.com
Any message you receive in my name without this email address is not from me.
Sincerely,
Diane Abbott MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA London SE37 88AQ
http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk