Scam on Facebook

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Got a friend request on Facebook from a lady from abroad. The lady introduces herself as a widow and that her husband died at war and she is suffering from breast cancer and the doctors have given her 6 months to live . This lady says she and her husband were missionaries and her husband has left her a huge amount of money that she is willing to donate to charity, since she has no children or relatives and she wants the money to do mission work. She says she has chosen me to do this for her for the sake of the needy in society. She is ready to transfer the money in my account and goes on to give her security number and Security Company that I should contact and give my details to for the money to be transferred to me as a heir of her property. Mind you she even sends me her pictures seriously ill in bed in hospital waiting for her death. Later on the security company contacts me that they need the lady’s account with the money to be activated since it is dormant because it has not been used for a long period of time and ask me to deactivate the account by sending a certain amount of money. I smell a rat and contact the lady in question and this is exactly what she wrote to me “My dear the fund was deposited for a very long time of period and the account has been dormant and i want you to know that my decision of chosen you was never a decision I made on my own, it was the holy spirit that led me to get in contact with you in good faith that I can entrust this mission with you and because I was poised to obey his voice and show love toward the less privilege” The first question I ask myself is. How can a woman I met on face book, one I do not know want me to deactivate an account that I am not sure exists. I just send her a message I cannot deactivate your account if you really want to see this money going to mission work deactivate the account yourself since it is your account. I have never heard from her again. Has anyone ever encountered this before.