Hacked through Hotmail?

I see it a lot.

I used    https://haveibeenpwned.com/    some time ago and still return to it at regular intervals. I change relevant passwords and block everything it finds but have not had reason to do that for months, probably a year or so. Gmail is the one that gives me most spam: as I have said before, it is around 95% Scandinavian and it mystifies me why they use Scandi languages instead of the universally-known English. Gmail always puts them in the Spambox, I know they are deleted soon, but always block each address. The addys are all computer-generated of course and change in a month or so. Gradually they are disappearing: some have never come back.

I don’t open them, but some photos are available after blocking, before deletion. Sometimes they remind me of something I thought I had forgotten…☺?

I got this via Gmail Scambox today:

” Greetings from Mabel,

I want you to read my letter with one mind and assist an orphan like me to make my dreams comes through in your country where I will invest my inheritance money and live there for the rest of my life.

My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .

My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on November 2015 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of 9,000,000 dollars left in one of the prime bank in Abidjan and he used my name as his only Daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the money.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management Sir, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

1) To assist me to receive the money in the bank where my late father deposited the money.

2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 18 years old.

3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.

Moreover, sir I am willing to give you 25 percent as compensation for your effort/ you indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you signify interest to assist me. Anticipating to hear from you soon. I am happy to have somebody like you as a gaurdian.

Please reply back to me on my private email address for more details to receive my inheritance money for your investment. mabelmanakuuu@gmail.com

Thanks and bless.

Best regards,

Mabel Manaku ”

Do you think I should help this poor orphaned young lady and make her dreams comes through by becoming her gaurdian?

Answers on the back of a £9 note please.

Sorry the cash machine is out of £9 notes and what do you know the £11 coins are too heavy to post and hard to write upon. On second thoughts it is interesting that Nigeria is not the centre world focus for this sort of thing, though I bet this one started life in some junk-mail boiler house anywhere in the world.

Some of those ScamSpams are a laugh, Steve. I don’t open any of course, but I can Block before I look and the delete forever.