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An email from Elvis!
Just received this email:
MY DILEMMA !!! Declan Macmanus to undisclosed recipients
I had a visit to London,UK for a short vacation. Unfortunately, I got robbed at the hotel park where I stayed, all cash and credit cards were stolen off me, but luckily for me I still have my passport with me.
I have been to the Embassy and the Police here but they are not responding to the issue effectively and my return flight leaves in few hours from now, but I'm having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me check out until I sort out the bills. Well I need you to loan me $3,000 and please bear in mind that I'll facilitate your reimbursement as soon as I get home. I PROMISE!
Let me know if you can loan me some money? so I can let you know how to get it to me.
Thanks
Declan
What a terrible quandry for the IDWTGTC hitmaker!
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That's the first con using a celeb I've seen
I'm looking forward to discovering Hylda Baker has left me $4.2 million.
Scam
Here's another, similar one from last year:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5699548/warning_yahoo_email_add...
Looks like his e-mail account has been hacked.
Indeed, and even as we speak...
...I'm sure similar messages will be dropping into the inboxes of Nick Lowe, Diana Krall, Burt Bacharach and so on.
The scammers might have ever so slightly mis-targeted this one..
He just doesn't know what to do with himself
does he?
I got one saying
the theft actually happened in the French capital and asking 'Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris?'
Good to see also...
...that his first thought was to turn to Sting for help
In times of crisis you can always rely on the boys in
Almost Blue.
Do you think he went to Chelsea whilst in London ?
nah, me either....
Poor bloke
Stranded in a hotel with less than zero in his account.
Time to spike
these Elvis puns please.
you can trust
the massive to get happy at a time like this - goon squad that they are
Dial 999 again
and spend some time watching the detectives.
The fatal flaw is that he says he's contacted the embassy. For a British citizen to contact his embassy here in the UK would take some doing.
It was this embassy, I expect...
http://www.viplounge.co.uk/embassy-nightclub/
Full of soulmates, I expect.
I Can't
Stand Up For Stolen Pounds.
In the lobby of a terribly chichi West End boutique hotel..
The manager looks askance at Elvis Costello as he says "Look.. I've emailed my mates explaining the problem. It's not as if they'll ALL going to think it's a scam, is it?"
Meanwhile, a BA 747 leaves Heathrow with a rather chuffed upgraded passenger settling himself into a first-class seat which became available at the last minute when the intended occupant failed to turn up..