This happens an awful lot these days

“MANAGER UNION BANK PLC UNITED KINGDOM
PLOT 240 UNION AVENUE RD, LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
Phone Number: +44-845-8906-388

DEAR SIR,

AN URGENT/CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable
business proposal, Though I don't know you neither have I seen you before
but my confidence was reposed On you.

It is with a high sense of esteem and perception of your business
potentials that made me to disclose this DEAL to you, with full confidence
that you will keep the transaction secret and confidential both now and in
future.

I am the manager of UNION BANK plc LONDON BRANCH. The intended business
is thus; we had a customer, a Foreigner (AN AMERICAN) resident in London,
he was a Contractor with one of the Government parastatal, he has in his
Account in my branch the sum of 35.5M Pounds sterling (Thirty-Five
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling). Unfortunately, the man
died four years ago until today non-of his next of kin has come forward to
claim these funds.

Having noticed this, I have covered up the account all this while, now we
want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as one of his next of kin and
forward Your account and other relevant documents to be advised to you by
me to attest to the Claim. We will use our positions to get all internal
documentation?s to back up the claims, the whole procedures will last only
ten working days to get the fund retrieved successfully Without trace even
in future.

Your response is only what I am waiting for as I have arranged all
necessary things. As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to
me indicating your interest, then I will furnish you with the whole
procedures to ensure that the deal is successfully Concluded for your
assistance. I have agreed to give you thirty percent (30%) of the Total
while 10% for all expenses that may arise in cause of the transaction
while i have 60% of the total sum at the end of the transaction.

This deal is 100% risk free and a mega fortune.

I await your earliest response.

Thanks,
Yours Sincerely.
Mr. wilton Luis
(Branch Manager)”

“My Beloved Hajia is way better than your Mr. Luis. ;-)

http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/35969,3.php”

“Stovie, when they call you beloved, they're just tryin' t' rope ya in! She is really a he and thinks you're a big ol' teddy bear.

Mr. Luis is a branch manager, and you have to respect a guy who's risen to the lofty position of branch manager.”

“yeah, your imaginary friend is more believeable than his.”

“Y'all are just jealous of my 'Beloved'.”

“pictures?”

“Jealous of your beloved Stovie? I think not!

When I'm counting the millions of pounds, don't bother me with your whining that your woman turned out to be a man with a piece of lead pipe. And no, I won't cover your losses.

Notice that Mr. Luis says the deal is "100 percent risk free." That's a pretty tight guarantee.”

“35.5 million pounds??

How many tons is that?”

“I expect y'all heard about the tractor-trailer heist, where somebody stole 3.5 million newly minted nickels. Comes to about $180,000. I expect they'll be looking for somebody who wants to pay cash in nickels for a new Jaguar or something.

They said if somebody cashed in $500 in nickels a day at a supermarket coin machine, it would still take years to get it all converted.”

“Hmmm, just crunched those numbers through a calculator. It would take exactly 360 days.”