From: Felix Reuthner Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Beware the Rohan-Connection Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:16:59 +0100 Organization: Spanische Inquisition Lines: 60 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.19.130.254 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.wdf.sap-ag.de 1046971019 14128 10.19.130.254 (6 Mar 2003 17:16:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@sap.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2003 17:16:59 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.sap-ag.de!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:113241 Hi group, just stumbeled across a nice one: Posted by GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE on January 17, 2002 at 03:02:21: FROM: GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE DUNLAND Dear sir and/or madame, Salutations, I am GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE, The son of late Counsellor Grima Wormtongue of the Kingdom of Rohan. My father was Chief Counsellor [equivalent to Prime Minister] to late lamented king Theoden of Rohan. In his position my father altogether legally and correctly acquired significant assets throughout Rohan in order to protect the Kingdom from enemy forces within and without. In the course of lamentable events succeeding, my father was illegally deprived of office and expelled from the Kingdom. Before this he had with foresight already entirely legally deposited the sum of M.500,000,000,000 in gold with the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith). While in exile in the north he was assaulted and murdered by a band of northern pigmies. His family was obliged to seek refuge in northern Dunland among some of our sympathisers. My father left to me all documents necessary to retrieve the sum of gold aforesaid from the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith). However, in the current political circumstances my solicitor believes it unwise for me to attempt to make the trip from Dunland to Minas Tirith, and has recommended that I seek a trustworthy foreign business partner into whose account this money could be tranferred. This appears to be the best option as we are unable to open an account in Dunland. Therefore we are seeking your trustworthy assistance and cooperation. You will provide information about your account that will enable a deposit to be made in your name. I will contact the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith) and inform them that the money is to be placed into your account. Upon completion of the transaction your share of the proceeds will be 15% net following deduction of all transfer fees, that is M. 75,000,000,000. If the transaction goes well we also look forward to maintaining you as a profitable business partner for future ventures. It goes without saying that I can expect your complete confidence and secrecy in keeping this matter under wraps prefatory to completion. Please reach me at my email address: mbrandybuck@buckland.net Thank you and ERU bless. MR. GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE. -- Microsoft Outlook Express continues to be the best-choice mail and news application for UNIX users, delivering powerful features with a simple, understandable interface. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/evaluation/outlookexp/default.asp ###### From: mair_fheal@yahoo.com (coyotes rand mair fheal greykitten tomys des anges) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Beware the Rohan-Connection Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:59:18 -0800 Organization: tos mariposa Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 26 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!c36.ppp.tsoft.com!user Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:113281 In article , Felix Reuthner wrote: > Hi group, just stumbeled across a nice one: > > Posted by GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE on January 17, 2002 at 03:02:21: > > FROM: GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE > > DUNLAND > > Dear > sir and/or madame, > > Salutations, I am GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE, The son of late Counsellor Grima > Wormtongue of the Kingdom of Rohan. i am already well aware that this is just a scam in any case i have already used up my available funds to help a party that under of orders of the late king laurent angmar collected funds to buy a large number of spears scimitars shields and mumakil harnesses to help drive gondorian rebels out of far harard but whose funds need to be sheltered in foreign bank by trusting trustworthy person