New take on an old scam?

[tygenco_x]

I'm copying this in via the message source; some of the addresses will be blanked out. Some.

Comments

[meganeko_mausuu]

Yeah, I see stuff like this all the time in my spam box. It's a bit ridiculous.

And anyone with an ounce of sense knows that this crap is a blatant lie, in so many ways. (Russia is NOT known for medical advances to where lots of rich Americans would be flocking there, there are plenty of ways for Americans to pay someone in Russia for something, etc.)

I got a scam the other day that made it into my inbox... the English was hilariously bad. (Doubly so, considering it supposedly came from a lawyer in New York.)
I thought about replying and messing with them, (I've seen it done before, with really funny results,) but then I decided I felt too lazy, so I just copy/pasted it into a chat for mocking.

[errant_variable]

Definitely a scam, but not the Nigerian Prince scam (where the scammed is the original source of the funding). This one uses the victim as a cutout to move previously-harvested funds, although I wouldn't be surprised if they drain your bank account through another cutout and collapse everything once they think someone is on to them.