I can't imagine why I would think this email was a scam. AIBU.

[SirGawain]

I can't imagine why I would think this email was a scam. AIBU.

This is Gen John Kelly, Secretary of homeland security department. We know that you have not received your fund from Africa! we have finally cash your $9.7million abandoned long-lost cherub confirming to be your won compensation funds, we cash the monies and we decided to boxed the money for avoiding expiry of the cherub because it has stayed long in our custody searching for your contact to reach you, after our investigation that we discovered that the money is not an illegal payment. So kindly reconfirm your full address the delivery fee is only $200 that will be the last money you will pay.

I really hate the cynicism on here!

Bargain when's the party

Cherub

It's not a scam.

I can tell you how I know, but first can you transfer me 500£? Internet charge fee. Thank you kindly.

Whoar I'm going to score big!!

Am I being massively suspicious and a fun sponge to think maybe they still do bad messages on purpose, so people don't notice the clever ones

Why did you leave the poor shrub languish in custody under threat of expiration?

Have you no heart?

YABU and evil.

My husband likes to email them back as a wind up

Shoe shopping time!

I wonder what they have mistranslated as cherub?

Am I being massively suspicious and a fun sponge to think maybe they still do bad messages on purpose, so people don't notice the clever ones

I read somewhere that they do it to save time, if they're really obvious from the start then they automatically weed out anyone with an ounce of sense. Rather than spending hours/days/weeks emailing with someone who then smells a rat.

Poor abandoned long-lost cherub.

Cherub= cheque perhaps?

Ah yes! Cheque makes sense.

I LOVE "fun sponge" will make a note....

I definitely think you need a cherub, no home is complete without one (MN, feel free to use that quote on MN Swears By).

ImperialBlether. My cynicism or their's?

I read somewhere that they do it to save time, if they're really obvious from the start then they automatically weed out anyone with an ounce of sense.

Interesting theory!

And worrying that there's so many people who fall for it despite the obviousness.

I wonder how this is similar to abusive relationships ... on one hand, I read that rapists like to test their intended victim's boundaries to see if she'll fight back, but then there's the fact that men who are abusive within a relationship hide their intentions very well at the beginning.

I suppose with targeting specific people, they can tell who is vulnerable without very obvious boundary-testing.

YABVU to think this is a scam.

I think cherub is going to be my new nickname for my ds. Its very underused.

Well I'm not sure - some of the posts I see on here have a similar approach to the English language. Maybe the sender is dyslexic or has a particularly aggressive autocorrect function. YABU for being such a SPAG snob.

You can keep the money, but I want the cherub. I NEED it!!!

So no 'large yacht' then? I always go for that one.

I think you should cancel the cherub...

Won't somebody think of the long-lost cherub?

I can't get rid of the image of all those poor bored cherubs rolling around on squillions of $ just waiting for SirGawain to send the very reasonable delivery fee.

Seems legit