Skrefi nær milljónunum...

Jæja, Elisabeth þessi elska er búin að senda mér svar og núna er ég hársbreidd frá því að fá 980.000 evrurnar (takk fyrir ábendingarnar athugullra lesenda um 80.000 evrurnar).  Í þessu bréfi sem er ansi langt kemur þetta helst fram:

Sir,
Sequel to our payment release application with the Netherlands Gaming board Authority, we write to inform you that an approval has been granted for the release of your complete lottery winning funds to you the beneficiary.  Our funds transfer department has already commence the processing of the necessary documentations that will enable our paying bank carry out the release of your approved lottery funds into your given account details, due to the process that are involve in the release of your payment funds which requires our procurement first of a Lottery Winning Certificate that will be issued on your name and an Irrevocable Guarantee Payment Release Order Document before we can have direct access to the lottery prize money, you are hereby required to pay to us first our mandatory administrative fee of 1,860 euro (One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Euro Only) to cover our management fee.

Ennfremur segir í bréfinu:

Kindly remember here that this administrative fee cannot be taken out of your approved winning because of an Insurance Bond Policy that was executed on the lottery program to guild against Money Laundering activities and also to avoid unwarranted deduction from the part of the payment bank. 

You are advice here to inform us of when it will be possible for you to come up with this fee so as for us to provide you with details of how you are to transfer us this fee. Should you still have any more questions, do not hesitate to contact me (Mr. Bob Bongers) on the below stated telephone/fax number for more explanations.

Jæja, nú byrjar fjörið.  Þeir hafa semsagt gefið út að þeir vilji fá 1.860 evrur frá mér í umsýslugjöld en þetta er alþekkt aðferð þessara glæpamanna.  Auðvitað falla alltaf einhverjir fyrir svona vitleysu, senda peningana og heyra svo ekki aukatekið orð frá þessum aðilum.  Við skulum sjá hvað við getum eytt miklum tíma þeirra og fengið þá til að gera.  Í ljósi þess að 90% svona glæpa er framkvæmdur af Nígeríusvindlurum sem lítið eða ekkert vita um Ísland, varð ég að krydda bréfið aðeins.

Ég sendi því bréf til Elisabeth þar sem ég greini frá því hvað ég hef verið snöggur að bregðast við:

Dear Elisabeth.

Thank you again for all your hard work and help.  You can't imagine how much this will do for my church here in Iceland.  Our churchmembers are so thankful for my luck and your lottery of course.  We have allready started to build a community center for the winnings that will house more than 300 people that are in great need.  We don't have much to spend so now, thanks to the lottery, the people we help will get warm clothes and shoes to wear in the winter time, even books, papers and pens.  More importantly, since most of these people can't afford guns, they will have a place to sleep away from the dangers of the polar bears and wolfs.  

I managed to get the money together, 1.860 euros and sent it via SWIFT Express payment to the Luckyday Lotto in the Netherlands.  I didn't have your (Luckyday Lotto) bank information so I got it from the bank here in Iceland (Swift account: 3882982982773-NL).  They payment should arrive in 24 hrs. This should prevent you from being inflicting with the money laundrey regulation you mentioned.

I hope we can see the winning money in a short time (like you said in the e-mail) because the curch doesn't have money to pay the contractor that is building the community center.  He knows that the money is coming from the lottery but can't wait long.  Also, the money we paid to you, the 1.860 euros, were taken from the church's christmas-fund.  I didn't even have the authority to do that.  I will be fired if they find out.  Now we don't have any money for the christmas mass and ceremony.  Also, the winter is coming here and many people need the community center for warmth and shelter.  I hope you understand my situation.

Hope to hear from you very soon.

Best regards,

Funi.

P.s.  I sent you a photo of the church meeting (and me), where we are discussing the building progress (drawings, plans, regulations, etc.).  They have allready begun digging for the foundation.

Nú er bara að sjá hvað þeir gera næst.  Það er ljóst að ég, presturinn, er búinn að leggja inn rúman 200.000 kall úr jólasjóði kirkjunnar og á ekki von á góðu ef það fattast.  Það er eins gott að þetta sé ekki svindl!