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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

I received a message:

hi dear
My name is Tina,
i am writing for friendship, i will like you to reply me direct to email ( XXXXXX ) so that i can send you my photos and explain more about myself for you to know whom i am, i have good reason for contacting you, which i will tell you when i see your reply; I will be happy to receive your reply via my address below

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Her location is given as Iran.

So I wrote her back:

Hello, Tina dear. You contacted me. I apologize for taking so long to write back. There was a lot of commotion because we discovered another oil well on my cattle ranch. The cattle got spooked by us erecting the derrick, and it's tricky working with 400 head of cattle when they get spooked. Ever since my wife died, it's been harder to run the ranch and oil production businesses without her help. Speaking of which, do you have experience with double entry bookkeeping? I could sure use some help.

So what would a pretty Iranian lady want with an old guy like me in the USA?

Steven

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

This is getting beyond ridiculous. She keeps sending me form letters and ignoring what I write.

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My dearest,
I am glad to write to you, how are you ? I hope you are fine, I thank God for you. Your message was a total relief to me. May God protect you for me because he is the one who brought you in my life. I will like him to make away for you, my dear, i love the way you sound to me, and i promise to be with you and i will like you to help me to come out of this camp so that i come to your country and have a free life.
In this camp, We are many living as refugees and our freedom is restricted because we do not have any traveling paper. It is just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace I will come out of here very soon. At the moment, i do not have any relative whom i can go to, all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war. The only person i have now is Reverend Benjamin mark who is the Reverend Minister in charge of the church here in the camp ( église St' Paul grand yoff dakar senegal ). He has been very nice to me since I came here but I am not living with him rather I am living in the woman's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women so my love i wish you could call him to know more about me all i know is that i am telling you now is the truth and nothing but the truth about me. The Pastor's telephone number( +22177-3403783).Honey, please feel free to call me through his number because i have told him about you. If you call, tell him that you want to speak with me ( Tina Rabia ), he will surely send for me from the hostel to come and answer your call. As a refugee I do not have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. Mean while, i am communicating with you through the Reverend's Computer because this is the only means we can communicate to each other . Again i do not work nor do anything for living as a result that eating is very difficult as we are given food ones a day. Please listen to this, I have my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which I will send to you latter, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank ( FIBI BANK ) in London which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $4.9m (Four Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars)
meanwhile, I will like you to help me process and transfer this money to your account as my 'foreign partner' which was the bank's condition to get the money transferred. From it, you can send me money to prepare and get ready my traveling documents to come over there in order to meet you. I kept this secret to people in the camp here, the only person that knows about it is the Reverend Benjamin mark
because he is like a father to me. meanwhile, i am communicating with you through the Reverend's Computer because this is the only means we can communicate to each other.
My dear, lets plan on how to meet you now, in your country because i had a conversation with the Reverend yesterday about how i can leave to meet you there in your country. According to the Reverend , i need to have an International passport in order to warrant and secure my departure from this camp. He said that with the passport, i will have freedom to visit you in your country. I will be waiting to hear from you. please help me contact the Reverend to know how long it will take for me to get the passport. here is the Reverend e- mail contact: [email protected]
Name Of the rev pastor is: Rev. Benjamin mark.
Telephone number : +22177-3403783
So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and do not tell it to anyone for I am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. Remember to contact the Reverend, tell him that you want to get a passport for Miss Tina Rabia. I am giving you all these information due to trust and believing that no one will think to hurt me after hearing all that i have gone through. My favorite language is English but our language is French but i speak English very fluently because both my father and mother studied in EUROPE .
My love, please I will like you to call me by 13 o'clock GMT London local time, like I said i have a lot to tell you. my darling if you need to transfer the money to your account first, please tell me so that i will give you the bank contact for you to contact the bank. Have a nice day and pray for me.
I awaiting to hear from you soon . Call me if you wish

Yours sincerely,
Tina.

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Dammit, Tina, can you READ?

I don't need your damned money. I have 400 head of cattle, four oil wells, and two other businesses.

I have been asking you questions and you've been prattling along with your damn tiresome talk. You've ignored everything I've asked you and just kept yammering.

I have no need for a woman who'll talk all day. I need a woman with some smarts, who knows when to listen. Back where I come from, a woman who keeps talktalktalking would get thrown over a man's knee and spanked long and hard.

Now, are you going to actually answer my questions or is this conversation over?

Steven