Thoughtless (i.e. Stupid) Scam Email

Yes, we all get kzillions of this spam -- someone from Africa has incredible amount of money and needs your help to transfer the money, for which you will get gobs of money. I used to forward those to FBI back when they first started surfacing (yes, you can refer them to law enforcement agencies... because it is a crime). But these days, I just throw them into spam folder and forget about them. On a whim, I read one before I decided to throw into my spam folder. And I just about fell laughing off of my chair because of the last thing this spammer/scammer asks.

"Dear Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got your contact address from the computerized search. My name is Mr Sani Mukila. I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of Bank of Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of nine million three hundred thousand United State of American dollars (9.3MILLION USA DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along with his family in Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on 4th October 2001.

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin to foreign customer.

The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be transferred into the bank treasury after 8 years if nobody is coming for the claim. I have agreed that 33% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer, 2% will be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the business and 65% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a bank official. Indicating your interest and also Contact me via this email ( sanimukila1@hotmail.fr )

Please reply with the assurance, come up with the information's showed below:-

1)YOUR FULL NAME...................
2)YOUR AGE...................
3)MARITAL STATUS...................
4)YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER...................
5)YOUR FAX NUMBER...................
6)YOUR COUNTRY...................
7)YOUR OCCUPATION...................
8)SEX...................
9)YOUR RELIGION...................
10)YOUR PRIVATE E-MAIL ADRESS...................

Yours sincerely,
Mr Sani Mukila.
PHONE ( 00226 71 35 28 65 )"

Ummm. Yes. If the guy needs me to reply back (since he emailed me first) with my private email address, how stupid is that?? It was rather amusing, and livened my Sunday night.