Michel Roberts just rang me on the telephone at work. Which surprised me somewhat. He’s definitely a man.
He rang to see if I’d read his latest email. And to tell me that his life is in danger. I did read his email, and I don’t really care. Here are some highlights from the email.
“I want you to understand that I had bestowed my hope in you believing that you will not cheat me or seat on my fund once the security company deliver the consignment to your care. Therefore,you are to impose love, trust and confidence in me so that we shall achieve our aim. Mostly is trust because without trust that’s mean we are not making any progress,I have the believe that you are a God sent to me and also a God fearing person, and I think it will be nice for us to handle this by both of us because I don’t want someone else to know about the consignment in the security company.Please my dear lets keep the secret between us.”
“Remember that you promised to help me and you also said that you will stand by me. Note that our relationship can not only be built on money but it has got a lot to do with trust and love for people. How can we build this trust? Should we be binded by a contract bond which will be legally signed and sealed in the law court here in this country to avoid cheats from the both of us before we proceed? I need your opinion on this. And bear in mind that I can never do anything that will hurt your heart. It’s a promise. I assure you that this project is 100% risk free and legal, you will not have any problem in assisting me in this project as everything is legal and risk free.”
And here’s my response.
Thank you once again for your timely response. I feel they would be quicker if you wrote slightly shorter emails.
I notice that you did not answer my question from my last email. As I said, the biggest reason I have for continuing to do business with you is your religion. I have a personal rule about not doing business with anybody who does not fear the Lord. You did not answer my question about baptism. Does this mean you are in favour of baptising children?
I was writing this when you made your phone call. Please do not call me by phone in the future – I can not talk about this matter in front of my colleagues. We will have to conduct our communication by email or I will not be continuing our transaction.
I would like you to send me the details for the security company.
Thank you for your call. It is nice to know you are a real person – I have heard of people having money stolen in situations like this – so I believe it is important that we establish this trust.
I have another question for you to answer to help me trust you. Do you love Jesus?
My goal is to preach the gospel to this scammer. Lets see how far I get.
Comments
I am loving this!
Baptism! Maybe he will give us some answers too!
Keep it up.
Gotta love that photo – he does look very holy!
But interesting ethical question – is it OK to lie to someone if they are an internet scammer and your aim is to preach them the gospel….? (And is it wise to tell someone the gospel when you are also lying to them!)
Nice! How was the phone call? Did you talk for long?
Only a couple of minutes. It freaked me out a little. I hadn’t given him my number… He called at work. In hindsight we should have talked for longer.