Of emails, a million dollar fortune and Internet cheats!

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PG Vargis and Lilly Vargis
PG Vargis and Lilly Vargis

PG Vargis and Lilly Vargis
PG Vargis and Lilly Vargis

By P G Vargis

I get so many emails every day from people with various requests. Some of them go as follows:

  • Pray for a girl who is dying in Kuwait. (this is going around for almost an year)
  • A child needs surgery but does not have money. If you forward this email to others, AOL will give the patient 5 cents for each email.
  • The richest man in the world is giving away a part of his wealth. If you forward this message to 10, you will get $1000. This is true. Look at the Microsoft web page for which a link is given below (And the Microsoft web page you open is created by some crook but looks exactly like Microsoft web page).
  • A movie is being produced that depicts Jesus as homosexual. Please forward the message and ask everyone to pray.
  • A Christian is being examined in the court and he will be executed if found guilty. Please tell every one to pray.
  • Free heart surgery.

The messages go on with such ludicrous statements.

Please be aware that these emails are sent by some ‘sick’ people and every time you forward these emails, the originator gets a copy of it with the email IDs (yours and your friends’). They use it for various purposes to cheat people.

I have written about this threat several times before. Don’t forward any such email to any one – especially if you don’t know if what is claimed in the email is factual or not. If you don’t know the person who sent the email to you and if you are not sure that the matter is 100% true, please don’t forward it.

If you forward such emails, you are inadvertently helping some cheats to collect email IDs that they use or sell to other cheats.

Secondly, you may also get an email from England or Ivory Coast or some island saying that you have won billions of British pounds in the email lottery. Or it could be an email saying that the sender of the message is an ailing and rich widow who does not have children and hence no legal heirs and that she is willing to donate all the money her husband has left her in a bank vault to you for free.

These emails are also originated sent by cheats. A pastor in Kerala lost over Rs. 6 crore to one such cheat. He had borrowed money from various people to get these dollars ostensibly ‘kept in a bank vault.’ I know of several people who lost lakhs of rupees this way.

Sometimes these emails may with an offer from China advertising some ‘wonderful products’ that will make you rich in a short time.

Let me reiterate: These cheats are crooked and cunning. If you are gullible and fall for their offers, they will cheat you. They would ask you for only a small amount in the beginning and then  slowly their demands will increase. They are even capable of getting access to your bank account and can wipe it clean without your knowledge.

In short, these unsolicited emails are a trap. Don’t reply to such emails. If you don’t reply, they will stop sending such letters after a few months or couple of years. However, if you write even one short reply, they will know that you exist and save such email IDs for future use.  So don’t reply at all to such emails.

Be wise. The cheats are active in India and other countries. Don’t be deceived by their honey-coated words of promises.

You may forward this web page to your friends so they will also be aware of such shenanigans. You can also spread awareness about this issue by sharing this web page on Twitter, Facebook, Orkut or any other social networking sites.

The writer is the founder of Indian Evangelical Team based in New Delhi. To know more about him and his ministry, visit his website: https://www.pgv.com

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