Nigerian Prince, meet the Dewsbury dressmaker

[stgulik]

Today we received a spam email on our business account that caught my imagination. It seems a young English lady is in desperate straits. She must be legally married in order to claim her late father's fortune. Mayest thou, a single gentleman with a willingness to engage in a bit of harmless trickery, come to her timely aid?

Hello Dear,

Good day

Comments

[mimimanderly]

OMG! This made me laugh so hard, I almost pissed myself! First of all, dearest Lucy, four years goes by in a flash, even when you are young. Just wait and you don't have to part with any of your "money" to a pretend "husband." Secondly, do not marry in order to get it now. It will still be there. Just get a freakin' job in the meantime. I mean a REAL job - not scamming on the internet. Ta-ta, talley-ho, and all that. Even the name Lucy Woolf sounds Just. Too. Typically. British. (Kind of like how "Ford Prefect" chose his name in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)

[teddyradiator]

This is begging to be written, but it would have to be Severus posing as the dressmaker.

[madeleone]

Teddy, you should write it! I'd read it for sure.

[reynardo]

Oh I agree thoroughly. An old family fortune, and a condition that was put on the inheritances in the 1800s and that no-one has thought to update since.

[stgulik]

Yes, this exactly! I feel like I read a HGSS along these lines!

[beffeysue]

stgulik, thank you for posting this. I've laughed so hard I almost fell of my chair. 😁

[blueartemis07]

This was so funny. And then I tried to figure out if anyone would fall for it.