Jerusalem – Someone praying for financial security at the Western Wall had their prayers answered on Wednesday, when a man found an envelope containing checks worth more than half a billion dollars.
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The man said he saw the envelope resting up against the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, where Jews traditionally leave notes in the cracks of the stones. When he opened the envelope, he found 507 checks from around the world, each worth about a million dollars, signed but not made out to anyone.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said the man immediately brought the checks to a lawyer in downtown Jerusalem, who turned them over to the Jerusalem police’s lost and found unit. Ben Ruby said police opened an investigation to determine if the checks are real or forged.
The checks are currently waiting at the downtown police station as to police investigate their authenticity, so anyone who has just realized he or she has lost half a billion dollars can still retrieve them.
The Rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz said many of the checks were Nigerian. There was no comment on whether or not the checks could be from the notorious “Nigerian prince,” one of most prolific email scammers, who suddenly had a change of heart.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
Now watch and see, everyone will start opening envelopes at the Kotel. 🙂
In other news, a man found 2 billion dollars in pledges under the beema in teh b’s medresh
Hard to think it is a criminal act or a real act of prosperity combined with some poor judgement. I say give it all to Yad Vashem. For the mitzvah of rememberance outweighs all memorials you can write to the future in terms of building a better community.
I’ll take a check.
um.. anyone check of they represent real accounts with actual balances?
Just send the checks back to the makers, end of story why open a police investigation?
Looks like the police is out of work and is happy to be occupied with such nonsense.
And for this and other shtusim they want chareidim to join the army or civil services.
Sound like the checks are all a bunch of worthless fakes.
Watch it, all those who decline to go to the Kotel will start running in masses…
This makes no sense. People with this kind of money do not put the checks all into one envelope and leave it lying around! Fishy to me.
Same type of checks you get in advertisements in the mail. In other words, these are WORTHLESS, not worth the paper they are printed on.
i think its like the big checks people use for events. its jsut a symbol, not real ones
has it occurred to anyone that it goes to the finder???
Wait!!!! None of the geniuses that commented asked who the checks were made out to. The PLO? Hillary Clinton? Eli Weinstien? Bernie Madoff? Mir Yeshiva?
there was once a rich man who ordered all his money cash should be burried in his grave, at his funeral they put in 5 million dollars cash as his request,
before stimas hagolel a guy took out fast the cash and wrote out a check to 5 million dollars and put in the dead mans box,
when asked he replied the guy asked for all hismoney, he can cash the check when he wants…. in the meantime i can use the cash…
probaly someone put in millions cash in the kosel, 1 guy found it and took out the cash and put in instead blank checks of 5 million…
WHy hasn’t anyone thought of the possibility that a few checks were taken off?
And now,for a true story which happened to…ME!
I sent once a check for 20 shekels to one of the tzedoka appeals for a poor family. The check was received by the rabbi officiated the fund raising. He, in turn, gave it to a private money changer who gave him cash for it. The changer gave it to another changer,etc until it ended up in the hands of an Arab changer, who had the bright idea of trying to steal some more money out of the account and instead of the Twenty shekels written in the account, he wrote in “Twenty Thousand shekels”. Of course,the check bounced-there was no such sum in the account. The end result? The tzedoka got the 20 shekels without a penny withdrawn from my account.