$500 million in checks left at Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM (AP) — Worshippers usually leave notes to the Almighty at one of Judaism's holiest sites. But half a billion dollars?
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees Jerusalem's Western Wall, said a worshipper found an envelope at the site Wednesday with 507 checks in the amount of about $1 million each. They were not addressed to anyone, and it's doubtful they can be cashed.
Rabinovitch said most are Nigerian. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some were from the United States, Europe and Asia.
Rabinovitch says he has found similar checks in Western Wall charity boxes before, but they all bounced. He says most of them were written by people from Africa.
The rabbi says he thinks the check writers "wanted to give all they had to the Creator of the universe."
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees Jerusalem's Western Wall, said a worshipper found an envelope at the site Wednesday with 507 checks in the amount of about $1 million each. They were not addressed to anyone, and it's doubtful they can be cashed.
Rabinovitch said most are Nigerian. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some were from the United States, Europe and Asia.
Rabinovitch says he has found similar checks in Western Wall charity boxes before, but they all bounced. He says most of them were written by people from Africa.
The rabbi says he thinks the check writers "wanted to give all they had to the Creator of the universe."
Those are my Nigerian lottery winnings! I have the emails to prove they're being held in my name and all I need to do is wire a nominal fee over to Nigeria's president to claim them.
I'm curious about the mentality of someone who writes million dollar checks and leaves them at the wall. Do they hang back and giggle with glee when someone finds them? Will it end up on a TOSH.0 episode as a practical joke?
The key word is "Nigerian". Home of the scam.
Roughly each of the 507 checks were written out for under $2k, it seems plausible these were a message to God by the person who put them there, or they have some meaning from the persons community and not meant to be cashed in by whoever finds them.
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The Woshipper who noticed the envelope and then opened it to find the checks seems a bit nosey and out of sync with the whole meaning of the wall, imo.
"doubtful they can be cashed". Â You've got to be kidding. Â I myself have been the target of a couple of "Nigerian" scams (may or may not have actually originated from that country), and no, I didn't fall for the scams. Â You'd have to be delusional to think there was a snowball's chance that these checks are worth anything.Â
Theres a joke in there somewhere but i dont wanna get banned again.
@thatsjarrod again...snort, chuckle :)