Strange email about a Chinese Priest

Once in a while, I get emails from kind readers with leads to interesting news or events to post on this blog for sharing. Here’s an extremely strange one I received a few days ago from someone called Ying Sim:

“本人王袖源，担任电脑维修工程师，近来生意越来越难做，
无法养活一家五口，
必须寻找兼职以维持家计，幸亏遇上僧人给于指点及托其福，交来真字，
而中了大彩一笔横财，使生活可以改善。在此衷心感谢僧人的恩德，
并发表此公开信感谢僧人，在此，印赠十万张本以弘扬僧人的灵显功能，
以求合家平安及聊表谢意!”

Briefly, the above can be translated as follows:

“My name is Wang You Yuen and I repair computers for a living. Recently, business is bad and it’s hard to make a living for a family of five. I needed to look for part-time jobs to make ends meet. Luckily, I met a priest who gave me guidance and blessings. The priest bestowed me with lucky numbers and I won the lottery. My life changed. I would like to thank this priest. This open email is my way of thanking him. I am going to give out 10,000 copies of a book showcasing the priest’s power.”

There are photos of the book attached in the email as well. Check them out:

From the photos, you can see the telephone number to reached to supposedly powerful priest who can bless you with lucky numbers. Is this some kind of scam out to cheat naive people? Anyone care to investigate and let me know? 🙂

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