My scam chain mail from Jesus!

[pegkerr]

It came in this envelope:





And inside, lots of breathless promises were made:





Blessed with $46,000 after I use the enclosed "prayer rug"? Wow! Where do I sign up?





But wait! There's more!





You have to get back to them! Right away!





Overcome with excitement, I cracked the envelope with the, er, "prayer rug."





Note the tear flowing from his left eye? (Click on the photo to see it close up.) I guess he cries if you don't send your money back right way. Oh, boy! I mustn't wait! I must send my prayer requests (and money) right now!





Oh, and in case you wondered. It's a scam.

Comments

[althea_valara]

I just got one of those, too. And I've gotten it at least once before.

We got one of those a

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

long while ago. Jim (dr. Paisley) gave it to one of our friends who is a goth artist and he made a shadowbox out of it. And sold it in an art show.

Thanks for spreading cheer on grumpily chilly day. (here too, we did have a sunny day today BUT tomorrow we have a winter storm warning...yech--I'm i KC, MO

[naomikritzer]

I occasionally get the Jewish equivalent -- I'm not sure how I got on their mailing list, but whatever. Anyway, the really funny (to me) thing about this particular Jewish charity (which is a real charity, after a fashion) is that they encourage you to make conditional offers to God: "God, if my daughter gets a 1200 or higher on her SATs, I'll donate $$$$ to this charity." Their mailings are full of people whose children got married / got pregnant / got into a good college after they made this pledge. The thing I love about this is that with the Jewish charity, unlike your typical Prayer Rug type ministry, it's apparently considered entirely acceptable to insist that God fulfill his half of the bargain first.

[eal.livejournal.com]

Okay that. . . . "it's apparently considered entirely acceptable to insist that God fulfill his half of the bargain first"

. . . nearly killed me. I started to laugh which led to a coughing fit which turned into a mini-asthma attack.

Too funny.

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

OMG you got the creepy prayer rug too! don't look at it too long --it'll freak yr shit out.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I, too, have the Creepy Jesus Nap Mat in my recycling bin!

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Man, everybody's getting prayer rugs. I didn't get one AT ALL.

I did touch it to my knees but I haven't won the lottery or anything. (I'd probably have to buy tickets, huh?)

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I got one that hasn't been completely destroyed yet. I could send it to you so you don't feel left out. :)

[aome.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, on Monday night you said you were spending so much energy trying to keep track of where Jesus was ... and now you have him right on a prayer rug, any time you want!

Oh, wait. Wrong Jesus. ;)

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I recently saw someone mention a street-proselytizer asking them "Have you found Jesus?" and telling them (or thinking they should have told the person) "Not yet, but if I run into Him I'll tell Him you're looking for Him."

PowerPuff JACK!!!

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEE

Where did you get the PowerPuff Jack icon? Is there somewhere I can get a PowerPuff Jack picture???

He can be on my wall next to my PowerPuff Snape.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Jeez, I'm pathetic. But sincere, maybe that helps.

~Amanda

Re: PowerPuff JACK!!!

[aome.livejournal.com]

I got it (and this one) from fandom_puffs. You can see the listing of her works here.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

I have seen so many people talking about these things! It amazes me that people actually fall for this crap.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I once got a spam from Jesus. He said He was concerned with my lack of social life and wanted to make my penis bigger. *sigh*

Actually, they even used a whole name...Jesus T Christ. I'm not sure if they meant THE or...Thomas...Theo...Todd.

Anyway, it cracked me up.

[aeditimi.livejournal.com]

Didn't they know his middle initial is H?

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

I got one of those too! Like <lj user="mrissa"'s, mine is in the recycling now.

[aeditimi.livejournal.com]

"Pray for God to bless me with this amount of money: $______"

*vomit*

I am vaguely sad that I've never received this spam. What, I'm not worthy of your spam, Jesus? I just get the emails from 'His' servants all over Africa who are the widows of millionaires who want the money to go to a good Christian gentleman and if I just give them my bank account info, they will transfer the billions of dollars into my account.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Jesus Prayer Rug! I love the Jesus Prayer Rug! I think the last one we got was taken to a friend who hung it up in his comic book store.

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

Ha! I got that one too.

[elfundeb.livejournal.com]

Just how big a donation do they want in exchange for prayers to bless you with $ [insert really big number here]?

I think Catholic Relief Services offers to submit my prayers in exchange for my donations, too, although to be fair their checklist is for things like "world peace" and "an end to hunger" which don't specifically benefit me.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I got one yesterday, but haven't opened it yet. I'm tempted to send it back "Return To Sender"...

Okay, change of plans. I've opend it up, and plan on givin' the rug to Chris. Everything else I'm returning in the pre-paid envelope (with my address blacked out).